Unintended Consequences

First the FCC levies a huge fine against ABC in order to protect the children, and then the clip plays to over a million viewers on YouTube. Then police in Virginia Beach charge a store owner with obscenity over a couple of Abercrombie & Fitch posters, and the images are all over the Internet today.

Now the Associated Press is reporting that the Ohio stripper law is actually spawning a new generation of "speakeasys" and prostitution.

“They have succeeded in creating this underground, sleazy, cash-only business that cannot be regulated, taxed or secured by police,” said attorney Skip Lazzaro...smokehouses are comparable to the illegal gin houses, or “speakeasys” that operated during Prohibition in the 1920s and early 1930s, Cleveland police Detective Tom Shoulders said.

The end result is that the "indecent" images that the moralists are trying to prevent are actually reaching a far-wider spectrum of the population, and the "immoral" behavior that they are trying to prevent is actually getting worse, and far more dangerous. Sometimes stupidity knows no bounds.

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