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ck4829

(35,077 posts)
Tue Apr 11, 2017, 10:24 AM Apr 2017

Maybe they should have done some 'extreme vetting' on their 'family values' paragon

Conservative-backed legislation that would require pornography filters on all electronic devices was drafted in part by a legal gadfly who tried to marry his computer and is wanted by Tennessee authorities in connection with a domestic dispute.

A bill under consideration in 13 states would force consumers to pay extra to bypass the mandatory filter blocking sexually explicit content, and its co-author Chris Sevier wants to introduce the measure at the federal level, reported The Daily Beast.

Sevier admits he’s best known as “the mentally ill stalker who wants to marry his computer” — an unsuccessful legal stunt intended as a protest against same-sex marriage — but at least some of the lawmakers pushing his bill had never heard of his checkered past.

The Republican co-sponsors of the Human Trafficking Prevention Act in South Carolina were surprised to learn Sevier had been charged with stalking country singer John Rich and a 17-year-old ice cream shop employee.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/legal-gadfly-who-crafted-gops-anti-porn-bill-is-a-wanted-man-in-tennessee/

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