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Not just that. Reno pushed cases to the supreme court to establsh precedent, then the white house started lobbying for more crackdowns on "the coming plague of online child pornography."
There were lots of articles about it at the time, including warnings of the toxic effects this increased focus on child porn would have on our society.
I argue that these laws, intended to protect children from sexual exploitation, threaten to reinforce the very problem they attack. The legal tool that we designed to liberate children from sexual abuse threatens to enslave us all, by constructing a world in which we are enthralled - anguished, enticed, bombarded - by the spectacle of the sexual child.
http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/ilaw/Speech/Adler_full.html
Of course, those articles were dismissed. Still are today, and yet....
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article5516511.ece