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What a short-term thought process. Creating laws that pertain to the current conditions only is a zero-sum game.

Child porn (nothing to do with this bill) will soon find its way into bitcoin-level undetectability, along with many other illegal things that society doesn't like. There are elements of life that just can't be controlled.

How is this bill going to solve future technological advances, like when we're able to augment 3D with models of real people (ie: children)? Will society prevent this? Will this bill prevent anything like this? Unlikely.

It would be nice if politicians considered the snowballing, exponential effect of technology innovations and realize that any laws they pass are temporarily effective at best.



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