Terry & Censorship

[Nonesuch]

I hope I'm not straying too far from the original topic, but...

I've heard that if internet porn was made completely illegal and was shut down, the internet would cease to exist.

I'm not sure what was meant by this. Is it hyperbole? Is there any truth to it? If anyone can elaborate on this, I'd be grateful.

[usmu]

Well let me put it this way. About the only thing that?s really profitable is internetporn. A lot of the revenues on are made in that industrie.

It also generates a lot of traffic on the net, because it?s a anonymus way of being able to get porn in the safety of your home.

you could compare it to a big toystore where they won?t sell any dolls (or any other particular well selling item) at all. The store still would exsist but there would be a lot less people using the store.

So would banning porn on the net kill the net of? Don?t think so, but it would definately influence it a lot.

[Darth Fett]

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I've heard that if internet porn was made completely illegal and was shut down, the internet would cease to exist.
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No, but it would reduce traffic and non-porn content would download alot faster.

Besides, you couldn't legislate what goes on in servers in other countires(yeah, as if every country in the world is going to simultaneously ban porn, shyaa!) so you'd still have the same amount of traffic.

The most reasonable thing I have seen proposed is the .xxx domain where all porn site had to end in .xxx to keep them all grouped together. Again, you can't control other countries, but.....

Darth

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[John Clark]

WHO IS TRYING TO BAN MY PORN! Crap, now what am I gong to do on Friday nights?

Just joking, but under the "Free speach" amendment that we have in the USA it protects all speach, even offensive speach (or images as it may be). Now, that means that the gov can not touch internet porn, because if they have the right to limit one type of speach, then they could limit damn near anything.
Most people don't believe that things can go that far, but there is a reason no one from the middle east posts here. This would be considered a "bad place" under there goverment regulations, and if they found a way to get in and got caught, it could be anywhere from a lenghthy prison sentence to death. It would depend on there gender and who the judge is.
I know that we are not in Iran, but twenty years ago, they were pretty much as liberal as we were at that time. The Iatola took over the country by the will of the people, and now women are considered property and people are beheaded publicly in town squares.


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[5Cats]

Hillary and Willey Clinton did their darn best to invoke censorship on every human alive, (V-Chip) and the media just playd along. It sickens me.
Some sort of warning is good, I don't want to see sick violence when I pay $10 for a movie, but to censor (edit out) stuff if evil incarnate. Who has the right to say what I'm allowed to see or read? Me! That's who!

And Jadian, fyi: there's a censorship "review board" (or some such stupid moniker) in BC that looks at everything brought in. This was supported fully by the "women's movement" in an effort to control (ie censor) violent material (against women). They were quite surprised when G&L material was found "offensive" too. Personally, I find child pornography criminally offensive, even if it's disguised as "gay erotica". A lot (not all of course) of the siezed material contained explicit child pornography, which is still (just barely) illegal in Canada.

[Nonesuch]

Thanks for the input, everyone.

[3peanuts]

Compelled to tell you something.
I was watching an old italian movie that talks about censorship.
There is a great scene in that film:an actress is trying to explain to a commissioner of the Ufficio della Censura that the movie she acted in had no sexual contents.She sits in a sexy pose on a sofa and describes the "porn" scene.She says:"He kisses me with passion then he tenderly holds me and then he... then he begins to undress me...then the scene ends,there's no exposure!",the commissioner looks at her (Alberto Sordi,the actor) and says :"Yes but in the next scene we see a baby in a cradle!"
and the actress cries:"But you don't see any sexual intercourse!"
"Oh yeah-he insists-but we see a baby,so the physical relationship took place anyway!".


Please keep on fighting Terry,we need people like you!

[Girly]

Censorship is merely an example of today's screwed up society. Take "Sex and the City". In the first series, the biggest problem people had with that show was the fact that a character says the word "cunt". Cunt? That makes no sense. Why is that word so offensive? Surely there are more important things in the world for people to worry about than whether someone on TV or in the movies says a four letter word! (Whatever that might be).

[happybunny2]

"Fuck & cunt" are NOT dirty four letter words but "KILL" is.....

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[Valley]

I entered this interesting subject a tad late, but just wanted to point out something. Porn or porn related products and businesses make up a HUGE amount of the internet. I would say 80% of the business or exchange of money on the internet is related to porn of some kind or the other. I bet that I am aimming low too. Of course, as the net gets older and more businesses and companies get on, by 2010 lets say, it might be onlt 50% or even 40%. Remember, lots of money goes to adult-check programs and membership fees just to log onto the adult sites. Even Amazon.com sells X-rated adult movies and books.
And I am talking world wide, not just the US of A.
I don't even think the above information covers illegal activites dealing with porn that also happen on the internet. Illegal downloads, child porn, and other stuff.

Shut down porn and all you would have would be Star Trek, Xena and MST3K sites. And they write/buy most of the porn anyway! Look at all the fanfic for crying out loud!