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** A lighter take: [[Acts of Gord]] recounts a [http://www.actsofgord.com/Chronicles/chapter36.php tale] about a concerned parent who was opposed to the very idea of [[Conflict]] in video games.
* The Australian Labor party proposed a (now unlikely to see the light of day) web filter which many have criticized for reasons ranging from denial of freedom of speech (justified by the leaked blacklist) to the practical, such as it slowing it down to dial-up speeds. Everyone from Telstra to Google, to [[Hillary Clinton]] and the US ambassador speaking out against it, which have been completely ignored. The supposed aim of the filter was to protect the children from accessing pornography, and stifling child porn online. However, the Coalition has followed the Greens in agreeing to not to vote in favor of the Internet Censorship bill when it appears in parliament, thus denying the Bill the majority it needs to pass through government. It is now virtually impossible for the filter to be implemented.
* After [https://web.archive.org/web/20120627084201/http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2010/writers/sid_lowe/09/09/spain.argentina/index.html Spain's football team lost to Argentina in a friendly shortly after Spain had won the World Cup], one Spanish politician came over all Helen Lovejoy:
{{quote|''How can we explain this to our children, still kitted out in red? How can I explain to my daughter that it was only a friendly? How can I explain to her that Casillas wasn't playing? Why did you do this to our children?''}}
* Comedian Nick Adams mentions in his book how when he, a black man, married a Native American woman, opponents of interracial marriage invoked this trope as a sort of thinly-veiled racism.
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