Lets make internet porn illegal

[Gavin]

impractical, I know.

But the argument could be made that it isn't free speech because it is significantly detrimental to society.

Thoughts?

[yxboom]

I think there are much stronger cases than it just being detrimental to society which is why I vote Yes, but the issue of international laws regarding the internet makes for it being quite implausible.

[Jimmy Higgins]

Illegalizing porn on the internet would be a massive blow to the economy. That stuff takes in billion$ each year. Think of all the tax revenue that is collected!

[Jin-Roh]

Free speech is so that people have the right to question the government. I don't think it really should apply to internet smut.
Voted yes.

[Rubia Warren]

I voted yes, but if I could just get this Eurodialer porn thing out of my computer, I would be happy.
Oh, and it's not from me, I bought my comp. used... nothing makes it go away forever- it just keeps coming back. Quite embarrassing, especially when my mom is over.

[yxboom]

www.ad-aware.com

[Epoetker]

Illegalizing porn on the internet would be a massive blow to the economy. That stuff takes in billion$ each year. Think of all the tax revenue that is collected!

Since Internet transactions aren't taxed...

[wienerdog]

The thing that disturbs me about porn in general is that 50,000 girls and women are sold in the USA every year, just from Eastern Europe. While most of them are probably forced into prostitution, I just can't believe that none of them end up being forced into pornography. The American porn industry is probably much less guilty of forcing women into it than other countries (I'm thinking especially of Asia). But I know of two "porn stars" who were essentially raped for their pornographic careers: Linda Lovelace and Traci Lords. It's just disgusting

http://www.msnbc.com/news/sexslaves_front.asp

[Jimmy Higgins]

Today @ 05:44 PM post located here
La Rubia:

I voted yes, but if I could just get this Eurodialer porn thing out of my computer, I would be happy.
Oh, and it's not from me, I bought my comp. used... nothing makes it go away forever- it just keeps coming back. Quite embarrassing, especially when my mom is over.

Probably because it is in the Registry. I personally like Pest Patrol to guard from spyware from no end of types of sites. Free research on me? I think not!

[lordsnooty]

Good grief, you killjoys. Nobody is forcing you to look at porn.

No wonder so many of you are so pent-up and angry. You should spend less time god-bothering and more time downloading smut.

Paul

[Rubia Warren]

Today @ 08:49 PM post located here
lordsnooty:

Good grief, you killjoys. Nobody is forcing you to look at porn.

No wonder so many of you are so pent-up and angry. You should spend less time god-bothering and more time downloading smut.

Paul

Actually, I have to look at it all the time. When the eurodialer's ad pops up, there are pics of sex acts in graphic detail- there's nothing held back. So, yeah, sometimes some of us are forced to look at it- until I delete it, but a few days later, it comes back.

[Janine]

I get some awfully nasty stuff via mass email. If there were any way to screen out that visual sewerage without crippling my access to other, good things, I'd do it in a minute.

[Rubia Warren]

Oh, geez, Janine! You're such a killjoy!!!! *wink*

By the way, welcome to tweb!

[Gavin]

How about some comments from those of you who voted no?

[Jimmy Higgins]

Today @ 10:30 PM post located here
Gavin:
How about some comments from those of you who voted no?

Why should we? Sexual perversion is hardly the most dangerous thing on the net. Pictures of willing people having sex is hardly something I'd call a danger to society. Just as TV and Rap music have been blamed for the ills of society, the Crusades, the Plague, and the KKK didn't need either of them, nor pornography to be bad. Society as a whole has not degraded, its man's Short Attention Span that makes it seem like it is. Kinda like how people think the economy is bumming right now. 6% unemployment is hardly a bad economy. But it is in a Short Attention Span existence.

I don't think any study has been done to show that the existence of pornography has anything to do with higher sex crime rates. Women were raped thousands of years ago, happens in the Bible, when there was no pornagraphy. And as for participants in the game of it, that feel they are being abused, they certainly might as well be. However, isn't that the game? Do hockey players whine about injuries? Not trying to sound heartless, but you go into a certain industry with the wrong expectations, who's fault is it? They pay heavily for that mistake. That's life. Half of intelligence is knowing what you don't know. Are they taken advantage of? Most certainly, but then again, isn't that part of capitalism? You can't have your cake and eat it too.