Tuesday January 17, 2006

The Children’s Hour

It looks like the second half of Thursday’s indecency doubleheader before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has gotten a slight facelift. Three days ago, the session bore this title:


Today, it’s been changed to the always crowd-pleasing:


Is this yet another example of the right’s strategy of restricting content in the name of protecting children? Maybe. Or maybe they couldn’t handle the traffic from all the people looking for actual internet pornography. The guest list so far—which includes reps from the middle-of-the-road Internet Education Foundation and the adult entertainment industry—suggests the session might be short on hysterics, although it looks like a second panel has yet to be announced.