| Freedom of Speech or Shutup by force? Next up... Dollar stores across this planet shut down due to selling statues of naked children .... Cherubs.
The debate is, It may be out there, but why should the ISP control what you see? The feds are always busy monitoring websites, as many sites owners have noticed in their log files.... If the Feds won't stop it,,,Making massive Black Lists also will stop legitimate artwork from a time when nudity was not shunned as EVIL.. And the government dropping off Pedophiles under bridges does not help either.. |
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| said by zalternate:Next up... Dollar stores across this planet shut down due to selling statues of naked children .... Cherubs. LMAO. Thx for reminding everyone of this conveniently overlooked fact. If you didn't, then I would have. The only objective any government could have for Internet censoring has nada to do with the standard but it's for the children bullshit war cry and everything to do with censorship for the sake of censorship itself, thereby proving that age old maxim of the more power government usurps for itself, the more it wants. |
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Good point on the cherubs. That got me to thinking. During my recent trip to Charleston, South Carolina, I saw a statue of 5 barely dressed kids. Obviously, they were meant to be cherubs (or something similar). Was that child porn?
I took a photo of that statue. Does that mean I'm guilty of possessing child porn now? I even had that photo printed in a photo book (for my friend whose wedding brought me to Charleston). Does that mean I'm guilty of distributing child porn?
Here's the photo (now maybe all of you are guilty of viewing child porn):
For the record, I don't think any reasonable person would call this child porn, but you never know where some people will draw the line. Child Porn has, like terrorism, become an excuse for people in power to get things passed that wouldn't have a chance otherwise. Yes, child porn is bad and should be stopped. However, many people seem to lose all rational thought when child porn is brought up. Mention "child porn" and they suddenly will support draconian legislation that does little to stop child porn and does plenty to reduce our freedoms.
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| I'm shocked!!
»www.manneken-pis.com/intro.html
Every tourist who snaps a photo of this is carrying kiddie porn into the USA.
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This whole thing reminds me vaguely of the rationale the Nazi's used for destroying 'degenerate' art - paintings by Impressionists and Cubists and indeed anyone they detested. |
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