a number of inferences can be drawn from this testimony on how government works and doesn't; 

 

On May 13, the Missouri House of Representatives advanced a draconian mandate requiring adult websites to demand a government-issued ID from anyone accessing them within the state, threatening non-compliant companies with $10,000-a-day fines. The bill's sponsor, Representative Sherri Gallick, literally stood on the House floor and compared the public to vermin, stating that the government must act as an "exterminator" to cut off the source.

The state has officially anointed itself the exterminator, but the trap they set isn't catching pests; it is laying the foundation for a massive digital cage. When Missouri's Attorney General first threatened this crackdown, major adult sites didn't comply with the dystopian demand to hoard driver's licenses; they simply geo-blocked the state while VPN signups predictably surged in the thousands of percent. Even Representative Eric Woods admitted on the floor that kids are smart enough to use VPNs to skirt the ban, yet the legislature still rubber-stamped the legislation in a landslide.

This proves what we at The Free Thought Project have been warning about for years: the point was never to stop the audience, but to build the surveillance infrastructure. A bill masquerading as a shield for children is always the first brick in a registry of adults. Once the state normalizes demanding your physical ID to access legal content, that database of preferences inevitably morphs into a convenient honeypot for blackmail and a list of dissidents. We have already seen how centralized databases of intimate habits become catastrophic liabilities, such as the infamous Ashley Madison data breach that resulted in ruined lives and suicides...........more........