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I thought this is an interesting discussion topic.
IMO the Supreme Court did the right thing, but I find it somewhat unnerving that the vote was only 5-4 to block the "Child Online Protection Act."
If kids want to see naked women (or men), they're going to find away. Trying to block people from seeing it is just a bad idea. Its always confused that how in our country sex is more of a taboo than gore and violence.
There is only one site that I think should have to change its address. I'm pretty sure we're not supposed to put links on the board, but I'm pretty sure just about everyone innocent child stumbles across this when looking for information about the government.
But its always nice to know that the Bush administration is looking out for me by taking the freedom of speech away from other people :).
actually i think you are thinking of whitehouse. com don't type this in kiddies cause i'm not sure, but I'm almost postive he sold that domaine to the government it was too much of a hassle.
i'm all for more porn, its the only thing keeping me sane while chin is in Tiawan.
There are no vending machines that sell porn, because vending machines can't check ages. There's nothing wrong with trying to enforce something akin to that on the internet. Your rights are barely infringed by having more accurate age checks... when you go to bars you can wait for ID checks, sometimes places even swipe your ID through a scanner or look at it under a special light to test validity, and no one complains there. I think protecting the innocence of children is definitely a compelling state interest, and the "abridgment of free speech" argument is a joke.
is there anyone here who didn't look at porn when they were younger? I'm just curious? The internet is your fathers stash of playboys now... granted its larger and has a lot wierder **** but its the same.
lol.. What i find shocking is that someone would believe the child porn clause got blocked by only one vote. Eventually, it will be allowed, as the same kind of "reasoning" that legalized porn and other licentiousness to begin with will eventually legalize child porn for the same reason. When a culture is climatized to vice, even the abhorrent seems acceptable in time. Heaven forbid, we deny "some people" their pleasures :uhhuh:
you have to have a lose defeintion beause "some people" could become "*** people" or any other single group. I'm not saying I advocate child porn, god no... but what is a child to one country isn't even a child to another so its very tough to govern a world wide entity like the internet.
heh.. Essex, out of curiousity, why is adult porn ok, and child porn not ok? It amuses me see that people have these "value systems", but in the end, it's terribly arbitrary and problematic. Become philosophers, and discover the objective values.
heh.. Essex, out of curiousity, why is adult porn ok, and child porn not ok? It amuses me see that people have these "value systems", but in the end, it's terribly arbitrary and problematic. Become philosophers, and discover the objective values.
adults can usually choose, children are generally forced, i'm not for anyone being forced to do anything. Plus a child might not have the emotional maturity to realize what was going on.
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