You see General, here is the thing. No one really cares either way. That is the truth with the internet bans everywhere they get proposed. Easy for us all to get worked up about them because they hit so close to home, but to the average American they don't give two shits about the legality of it. Most people don't care to do it so they don't care either way. Banning the activity earns very few votes for or against a candidate. Passage usually comes down to how the bills are written, how they get amended, and which industries end up on which side of the rules. The one in Indiana looks like it could pass simply because it is written in a way that only ISPs might care. Still my lobbyist contact says beneath their breath, lawmakers are saying this is a token bill they highly doubt ever gets enforced and just could be a sap to the legalized industry there.
So where does that leave us? It makes it a low priority for politicians, but if they need it as a favor to a campaign donor or to burnish credentials with some demographic of voter, they find few fellow politicians blocking them from doing it...at least at the state level. At the national level it is different, very different. Thankfully for that they have never been able to pass all these proposed bills and may never be able to do it.
