Food for Thought
zscoundrel
zscoundrel at kc.rr.com
Tue Nov 5 19:09:39 CST 2002
The supreme court has already decided this one. Community standards.
Your City/County/State decides what should be allowed in public. Note,
no censorship here, just what should be allowed in public and what
should be kept private.
Jason Clinton wrote:
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> Marvin GodfatherofSoul Bellamy wrote:
> | I've always wondered about alternative solutions to the pornography
> | debate. Make it even simpler, is there a problem with having adult
> | sites return a specific meta tag or a header? Then, filter content
> | based on the HTTP response. I've never played with proxy software, but
> | if this were made law, I don't imagine it would be difficult for
> | software manufacturers to make the change. Let me know if there are any
> | holes in this idea.
> |
>
> Who gets to descide what is adult content and what isn't? Will we begin
> filtering sites that also include references to violence? (A war on
> violence
> sounds like much better waste of time than a war on pr0n.) What about
> 'virtual
> pr0n' and sex stories?
>
> Here's an idea: How about humanity accepts sexuality as a natural part
> of being
> a living being and stop attempting to 'protect' us from ourselves. I
> could start
> on a long rant about how repression leads to fetishism and paraphilia or
> how the
> guilt instilled in childred about their sexuality exacerbates the already
> horrible problems with teenage's self-image in our society but where
> would that
> get us but a flame war?
>
> + Insightful
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