Child porn is a very serious issue that gets very serious people to make very serious asshats of themselves. In the #7 slot for 2008 I have to grant a tie for two very different flavors of stupidity over the very same issue. In one spot we have New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo who back in July came to the realization that a) child porn is bad, b) there’s child porn on Usenet, c) if we shut down Usenet, we shut down child porn. Win! In the second spot we have the entire Austrailian legal system that, as we found out this month, believes that cartoon characters need the same legal protections as human beings. Win squared!
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