Maybe "hardly", but we still can. And even if we couldn't, we could show tits in any other medium we wanted. And on our news outlets... I don't have much to say about them. They do kinda blow.

They aren't banned by the government. Sale and distribution of them would be legal if any publisher wanted to release them. You can buy plenty of creepy Japanese hentai games online in America and that's completely legal. Please, show me one instance of a banned game in America.

Give them all Adblock.

America has a codified freedom of speech, which is more than you can say for some Western European countries. You'll never see a game banned from sale or distribution in the United States, for example.

Stupid is the inability or lack of desire to learn.

Men are obviously less likely to report abuse by women (for reasons already mentioned), so it's pretty tough to get accurate information to support either side of the argument.

Why the hell is any sort of piracy (bar the arrrr kind) even a felony?

Agreed. If someone can show me/research any actual evidence (I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I just haven't seen it) that viewing or downloading child pornography (For free at least, obviously if money is changing hands the uploader has incentive to continue the abuse) increases the likelihood that either the downloader or the uploader will commit crimes against children, I'll believe them. I prefer to believe things based on evidence rather than appeals to emotion.

You've summed it up. Twenty fucking years for downloading a few pictures to a computer? I don't care how vile and disgusting they are or how they could theoretically increase crime against children. Twenty years, basically for possessing certain information. Absurd. This shit happens because the authorities at hand here can't be assed to find real, dangerous criminals (like, I don't know, the people who made the images) and want to have a good public image and feel good about capturing a supposed "evil pervert" or some bullshit like that. Gotta love the quotes around "accidental" in the article's title, too. Couldn't they have come up with something a little less accusatory, given that the argument for his innocence is, at the very least, not completely unreasonable? Also, do those couple sentences of the description seem slightly Orwellian to anyone else?

What did the English language ever do to you?

And it's awful wording. It's akin to saying "homosexuality sufferer".

There's no way handheld game consoles will be obsoleted by cell phones until one of the big console makers makes a handheld that's designed as a game console first and a phone second. Most gamers won't completely switch over to something that's all touch screen or uses cell phone buttons to play (N-gage, anyone?)

Pfft.

Even then, if the entire country was forced to quit smoking, some shit would go down.

What about people who don't have enough of this magical willpower to quit? What if they don't have enough to gain by quitting smoking to make it worthwhile?