Will incoming Attorney General Bill Barr crack down on criminals who use the internet to sexually exploit children? There’s reason to be optimistic.
The advent of the internet broke through the protective legal barriers that historically shielded the sex industry from grooming our children. The failure of past administrations — with the exception of George W. Bush’s Attorney General John Ashcroft — to prosecute federal obscenity laws has given a free pass to the multi-billion-dollar internet pornography industry. Under federal law, obscene pornography is illegal to produce and distribute and is therefore is not protected by the First Amendment...