You may recall us reporting on the US Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act and its proposed censorship of drug info on the Net. Well, after sustained media criticism, the US Congress is *still* trying to sneak the bill into law.The latest tactics deployed by the government to sneak in this increasingly unpopular drug-info ban involves another bill, the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 2000. This ostensibly deals with consumer protection and taxation issues surrounding bankruptcy, but has been amended earlier this month  to include the entire text of the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act (HR 2987). The Meth-bill is inserted willy nilly between a section on ‘insolvency improvement’ and one on the ‘bankruptcy of electric utilities.’ Would you Adam and Eve it? How sneaky can you get? The Bankruptcy Reform Act was already passed by both the US House and

Senate without the Meth-bill attached to it, and is in conference committee between House and Senate. Bolting on the text of the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act as an ‘amendment’ at this late point is a rather flagrant attempt to by-pass the growing media awareness and public attention surrounding the censorship provisions.Before the amendment, the Bankruptcy Reform Act had already contained some duplication of the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act. For instance the ‘Secret Searches’ clause, which allows police to search a residence and not tell the owner, was already included.Another pair of bills have also been introduced in the Senate and House, which essentially duplicate the Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act, except that are directed at MDMA, generally known as ‘Ecstasy’, ‘Eccy’, ‘E’, ‘Pills’, ‘Happy Pills’, and ‘The Good Stuff’. Like the methamphetamine bill, the new bills would ban ‘information pertaining to the manufacture, acquisition, or use of a controlled substance.’ That means citizens of the US wouldn’t be able to legally publish information pertaining to the chemical constituency of the drug. Which would make a link like this, we suppose, an arrestable offence. Sorry, officer.