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Re:Judge blocks California’s new ban on anonymity for sex of... by throwit1979 on Thursday November 08, 2012 @10:16AM (#4758064)
Another aspect is that there was exactly $0 in campaign funding to oppose the proposition, whereas there was $3.7MM in favor of it.

Campaign contributions are public record, and nobody wants to be seen to be supporting sex offenders. Instant social suicide.

Ref: http://ballotpedia.org/wiki/index.php/California_Proposition...

Re:Judge blocks California’s new ban on anonymity for sex of... by saurik on Thursday November 08, 2012 @11:19AM (#4758367)
Interestingly, with the vast majority of that (especially so once you factor out some portion of the contributions that had been made to multiple simultaneous campaigns, which ballotpedia can't separate), came from a single person: Chris Kelly (former Chief Privacy Officer of Facebook).