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- ricodued, on 10/12/2007, -2/+28EDIT:digg me down.
Or else. - LarianLeQuella, on 10/12/2007, -5/+30I learned from Avenue Q, "The internet is for porn! Grab your dick and double click."
- BMW7Series, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24You can have a trillion dollar war in Iraq, you can ban online gambling, you can even try to reduce Medicare, but I'll be damned if you come after my online porn!
- DucoNihilum, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Ever notice how the two political parties are coming closer and closer together?
IE: Clinton signed a law against porn (social law, morality this is more social conservative than anything)
Bush signed laws supporting massive amounts of welfare spending, and other socialistic or non conservative (big government) plans. - captinherb, on 10/12/2007, -1/+19Maybe if they meet there will be a big explosion and we will have a chance at a third party candidate.
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Porn is JUST LIKE smoking.
Except for the whole... having negative effects on your body thing. - defubar, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13exercise and prostate cleansing...it's all good
- zweben, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12New comment + ?????? = Profit!
- xcheats, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9How isn't it healthy?
- drlha, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Please! Won't somebody think of the children!!!
- stone2020, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Please! Won't somebody think of a new comment!!!
- tobyNZ, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7"Second hand porn kills" maybe thats what their getting at??
- jerwong, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5It's about time. Porn for everybody!
- krazygluon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Lol...if porn is educational, then all children will belive women have to eat semen to become impregnated...our birthrates will plummet!
Maybe that's it...we need to market more moneyshot based porn to china as sex-ed tapes. - zweben, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4As much as i'm against porn being banned.... I think calling it 'educational' is a bit of a stretch.
Unless you want your kids to have a very ambiguous and um... untraditional idea of how babies are made. - rabidg00se, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Hehe. Undead children.
- mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Hell, I would vote Independent/Libertarian if I knew it wouldnt just drain votes from the lesser of the two evils (which in my case is usually Republicans - but thats not really relevant). The problem is, as it was for the Dems in 00 and 04, that the third party is going to drain votes from one side, essentally handing the win to the other candidate (maybe Nader is really a Republican, trying to break up the dems' votes...?).
Either way, we need a 3rd party that will drain votes equally from both sides. 15-20% of votes on either side will never move, no matter what. Its the swing (and potential swing) voters you need to take in, as well as the people who dont currently vote (who may very well go for the centrist candidate).
I am socially moderate and fiscially conservative, so I am really a Libertarian with a conservative lean. - PhilC1015, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3It is up to parents to inform their children of right and wrong, but hiding pornography only encourages kids to look harder to find it.
- HillelKitty, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Please!! won't someone think of the kittens?!?
- tranix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I've vowed to never again vote the "lesser of two evils", no matter the perceived cost; from now on I vote my heart, which is often Libertarian / Independent...
- CrankyMcGuy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Why sue over the 1998 Child Online Protection Act NOW? How is this a danger to their business now more than it has been for the past eight years? There's another story going on here that isn't being told.
- PlaidPhantom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Despite my personal feelings on the subejct, I'd have to side with the ACLU on this one. (I can't believe I just said that. Someone check hell for me.)
I just don't see how the government has ANY business trying to enforce morality standards. Morality is tied to one's beliefs and religion. (IMO) By accepting one standard over another, the government is endorsing that belief system. The First Amendment exists to prevent that. Tell the cowards who want to hide behind laws and regulations to get on the street and convince people themselves. You have free speech. Use it. - Aque0us, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5God bless you Justice Department! Keep that disgusting, unnatural filth away from my little Johnny. He'll be traumatized for life!
/sarcasm - HillelKitty, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Shoot, fratt.....in Indiana, some of the only alternatives to the uber-conservative republicans ARE libertarian (or write-ins). I'd love to see Loogie (Sen. Lugar for non-hoosiers) get knocked off his moralistic pedestle by a Libertarian. I'd laugh.
- andergriff, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's always easy to defend "rights"...hard to protect unsupervised children.
- V1ncent, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4Salon loves p0rn. Good way to advertise, Salon... idjits
- mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@HillelKitty
Well, then I look forward to going to Purdue next year, so I can vote for a Libertarian. Here in Mass, its basically (a) RINO, (b) Liberal Democrat, or (c) Communist. - PlaidPhantom, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I realize no one will ever read this, but I probably should have said that government shouldn't be regulating PERSONAL moralities.
IE porn is personal between all participatory parties whereas murder involves those who aren't participating per se. - encognito, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Ditto, except I vote with my head not my heart.
- invader, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2exactly? we should put an end to porn-related age discrimination! yay! porn for everybody! even young children!
/sarcasm
(by age discrimination, i was talking about the 18+ y/o rules..) - CrankyMcGuy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2You ain't exactly preaching to the choir here. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone here or on slashdot that wants to agree that porn is addictive to the individual, damaging for society, and degenerative for relationships.
Addictive evidence is no longer anecdotal. I could cite studies, but you've probably read about them. More and more people every year are seeking help to combat this problem. But porn occupies the same place in society alcoholism used to occupy - society in denial because nobody wants to claim they have a problem with something everybody believes shouldn't be a problem.
The claim that it is damaging for society comes from divergent camps - the religious right, of course, but also many feminists concerned about the demeaning aspect of porn to women reduced as sexual playthings.
As for its degenerative effect on relationships, this, too, is moving beyond anecdotal evidence. So many women are getting tired of their husbands spending time with images of other women while they sleep alone in bed. There are the excessive costs (many people don't have time to monkey around Google looking for free porn so they subscribe to multiple sites, but addicts cannot be satisfied with old images and so feel compelled to find new sources). And worst of all is the way sexual relationships are changing. As the porn circus tries to attract new clicks and eyes and revenue by pushing the edge, men and women are trying to re-enact what they see online in their own lives to the detriment of their relationships. Just for an example, anal sex, painful to most women, is on the rise because guys are demanding it from their partners or they threaten to find new partners. Teenagers engage in oral sex more now than ever before because they believe it's safer sex than intercourse, and because it is prevalent in porn. Studies show that although the amount of teens having sex before marriage has dropped, the ones that are engaging in sexual relations are performing more hard core acts than previous generations. All of this has been covered in the news over the past few years.
Porn is having an effect on our culture, and I don't feel it's really in our culture's best interest. - mapkinase, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Salon is filthy pervert cynical elitist ratnest.
- darkinferno9908, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@toby "Second hand porn kills" maybe thats what their getting at??
Sometimes it's helpful to have a second hand there to help you out while you're watching porn. And the only thing it kills are undead children, but normal porn does that. - ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1@KrazyGluon,
That's a crazy plan, but Porn, especially Internet Porn is illegal in China. Its all underground. Aka, your plan = foiled. - PhilC1015, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4How long is this going to continue? The Religious Right always tries to keep information from children, and kids always look for ways to get around authority. The current leaders of Christian Nationalism will eventually die off, only to be replaced by their home-schooled (and often ignorant) kids.
Save future generations! Subscribe them to Playboy!
Kids will learn about sex, no matter how much they are "protected" from it. No one ever has to teach dogs and cats how to procreate. Your kids will learn, whether you want them to, or not. And younger generations quickly become proficient at computer skills their parents took years to acquire. - Pixelbox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0PlaidPhantom said: "I just don't see how the government has ANY business trying to enforce morality standards."
Isn't every law on the books an attempt to legislate morality of some sort? - mfratt, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1Again, digg puts my 'reply' at the bottom
Please bury. - sbovisjb1, on 10/12/2007, -13/+3When you think about it, porn isnt exactly healthy for you, its like smokes, it has a surgeons 18+ warning, hell though 80% still use it.
- nandabanaotakun, on 10/12/2007, -14/+2Clinton was GOP in disguise. Ever heard of NAFTA? That was all Slick Willie.
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