Stupidity vortex

Jim Henley reminds us that our legislators are dangerously technologically illiterate.

Stop Thinking! It's for the children! Protecting Children from Peer-to-Peer Pornography Act of 2003 makes peer-to-peer file trading illegal:

(a) ACTS PROHIBITED- It is unlawful for any person to distribute peer-to-peer file trading software, or to authorize or cause peer-to-peer file trading software to be distributed by another person, in interstate commerce in a manner that violates the regulations prescribed under subsection (b)(2).

Still in committee, from what I can tell.

I propose the Protecting Children from Bleeding to Death Act of 2004:

(a) ACTS PROHIBITED- It is unlawful for any person to distribute knives or other tools with sharp edges, or to authorize or cause tools with sharp edges to be distributed by another person, in interstate commerce in a manner that violates the regulations prescribed under subsection (b)(2).