For a glimpse at what modern government head-scratching looks like, one could do worse than to look at the minutes of the September 5th, 2014, meeting in New Delhi of India’s “Cyber Regulation Advisory Committee.”

The meeting had an ambitious purpose: finding a way to eliminate pornography use in India. This comes as a directive from the Supreme Court of India, in response to a petition about the dangers of pornography. From the petition itself: “Petitioner most respectfully submits that most of the offences committed against women/girls/children are fueled by pornography. … Pornography is like moral cancer that is eating our entire society at every second across [the] country.” In response, the court requested that the committee, led by the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, do something about the problem.