Stardate 20010922.0701 (On Screen): The blue-noses have gotten same pushed in. Tampa has zoning laws about placement of "adult entertainment" businesses; those kinds of laws have been upheld by the courts because of the fact that strip joints and the like tend to attract certain kinds of people to visit. So in the guise of maintaining public order, prudes have used such laws to try to prevent adult entertainment businesses from existing at all. In Tampa, there is a company running a web site where young women come to live and are observed via web-cams (on a subscription basis) as they go about their unclothed lives. Tampa tried to ban it using the zoning laws, but now a US court has overturned that -- and rightly so. Since the patrons don't visit, the ostensible excuse for the zoning law (to prevent the traffic by undesirables) doesn't apply, and the
real motivation (censorship) pops up. That was never a legally justifiable reason for the zoning. The idea of "I hate my neighbors because I know what they're doing behind closed doors and the mere fact of it gnaws at me even though I can't see it" isn't something that should have force of law.
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