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BANNING PORN IS A BAD IDEA. THERE ARE OTHER WAYS TO IMPROVE THE INTERNET

SOME CONSERVATIVES ARE STILL hellbent on banning online porn.

Matt Walsh, a Daily Wire columnist and a culture warrior if there ever were one, wants the state to “have a role” in regulating adult content. Sohrab Ahmari, op-ed editor of the New York Post, insists that adult content “isn’t free speech—on the web or anywhere.” Newsweek’s own opinion editor, Josh Hammer, has lamented at First Things that “today’s self-proclaimed liberty-minded ‘conservative’ vanguard defends licentiousness by invoking the mantle of freedom.”

And Terry Schilling, executive director of American Principles Project, has spent a good

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