The AFA's Bryan Fischer positively gushes over the news that the Chinese government shut down more than 60,000 pornographic websites last year, saying that the only reason the US government isn't doing the same thing is because of a "distorted, bizarre, grotesque understanding of the First Amendment" as a result of courts wrongly rulings that things like pornography, obscenity, and profanity are forms of free speech. Fishcer asserts that the First Amendment was intended to protect only political discourse: