It's easy to get nervous when legislators try to regulate use of the internet.
As we've seen with the congressional hearings of Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, lawmakers often reveal themselves as too technologically ignorant to understand the impact their laws will have.
So when you hear that a new bill seeks to block certain content from people's devices, you'd be forgiven for wincing. But the more we hear about this particular proposal, the stranger it gets.