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GOP Dreams of Porn Crackdown
Loves 'Internet Freedom,' Unless There Are Boobies
by Karl Bode Tuesday 28-Aug-2012 tags: business
With the GOP convention this week the party is squaring away and solidifying much of their platform, and hopes to include some "Internet freedom" language aimed primarily at avoiding network neutrality regulations. Techdirt notes that rather hypocritically, at the same time the GOP is professing to love "Internet freedom," they're pushing a part of their platform that will include a significant crackdown on Internet porn, with the party insisting current legal porn distribution is "a violation of current federal (obscenity) law."

The porn platform wording expansion, which is driven in no small part by the Family Research Council and a group called Morality in Media, also calls for mandatory porn filters, something Romney is on record supporting in the past:

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The broader regulation, submitted by Family Research Council president and Louisiana RNC delegate Tony Perkins, also echoes GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney's position on the issue during his previous campaign for the White House. "I wanna make sure that every new computer sold in this country after I'm president has installed on it a filter to block all pornography and that parents can click that filter to make sure their kids don't see that kinda stuff coming in on their computer."

Morality in Media seems particularly thrilled in their press release about the changes to the GOP platform's official wording, calling porn an "untreated pandemic of harm" that causes "porn-induced sexual dysfunction" and an automatic desire to consume child pornography:

America is suffering an untreated pandemic of harm from pornography, which touches nearly every family in America. Research shows that children and adults are developing life-long addictions to pornography; there is a very substantial increase in demand for child pornography because many adult-porn users are finding that they are no longer excited by adult images; on average four out of five 16 year-olds now regularly access pornography online; 56% of divorces cite Internet pornography as a major factor in the breakup of the marriage; girls consuming pornography are several times more likely to engage in group sex than those who do not; significant and growing numbers of men in their twenties are developing "porn-induced sexual dysfunction."

As Masnick at Techdirt notes, the upcoming Democratic party convention will suffer from plenty of Internet policy hypocrisy of its own, like professing to love Internet freedom even more -- then signing off on every idiotic Internet bill their friends in Hollywood and the recording industry can dream up.

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JTR

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Oh boy

If this passes, this will be the shitstorm of the decade.

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Re: Oh boy

which is why it won't actually happen. they say things like this to get support for this voting cycle then will say later when they don't do it that it was to big a problem or we forgot or whatever the excuse of the month is
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Re: Oh boy

They'll blame it on the other party, or whoever they see as their biggest enemy of the time. Both parties do this. They support things that they know are impossible, to excite the base, and then excite the base even more by claiming that "the enemy", whoever the enemy is, is the REAL problem.

Sadly, it works very well.

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Porn rules!

I like looking at hot sexy women doing sexy things!

Eddy120876

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Re: Oh boy

Same here specially if those Sexy women can do it all

PapaMidnight

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Oh well... guess it's back to kids sneaking away their dad's old Playboy and Hustler magazines. Either that, or some of the older (not-so-conservative) Victoria's Secret magazines.

Either that, or he's up at 2 in the morning watching Cinemax.

Seriously, if you think you're stopping some 14 year old teenager whose hormones are raging from watching porn online, you've got another thing coming.

Realistic thoughts, people. Realistic thoughts.

Pickaname

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Re: Oh boy

said by PapaMidnight:

guess it's back to kids sneaking away their dad's old Playboy and Hustler magazines.

Playboy and Hustler are dead/dying, no one except collectors are still buying their fake airbrushed materials. They would love to shut down online porn so they have a monopoly again. They're probably lobbying for this behind the scenes.

Thaler
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So I have to decide whether I want Obamacare or Porn. Fantastic.

One of the choices, I can live with.
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Re: Oh boy

And you'll keep on living too now that you finally have healthcare.
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Re: Oh boy

said by Trencher:

And you'll keep on living too now that you finally have healthcare.

Don't you mean now that you're forced to buy healthcare?

Obamacare doesn't provide healthcare for everyone, it makes some changes and then fines (oh sorry, "taxes") you up the ass if you don't go out and buy healthcare.

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(edit) Protip: Don't post first thing after waking up from a nap.

delusion ftl

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Someone help me source the mitt romney quote. I cannot find a valid reference to it anywhere

boob

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I would comment...

but what can one say...?

I and before you respond, the Democrats are no better.

Gary Johnson for President!

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Re: I would comment...

You cannot elect a meme for president.

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ahhhh!

The party of "family values"

=====)> ~~~
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Re: ahhhh!

said by seamore:

The party of "family values"

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....and "wide stances".

cowboyro

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I thought the Internet was created FOR porn...

...and now block it? WTF?
As far as I'm concerned, the more porn the better...

gate1975mlm
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Re: I thought the Internet was created FOR porn...

said by cowboyro:

...and now block it? WTF?
As far as I'm concerned, the more porn the better...

Amen to that borther
danjohn12

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Re: I thought the Internet was created FOR porn...

yea thats why i bought a pc for

voipguy

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Re: I thought the Internet was created FOR porn...

You're right!
"The Internet is For Porn"
»www.stageagent.com/Shows/SongLyrics/3246

cdru
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I don't think that it was CREATED for porn, but porn ultimately has driven many of the innovations and advancements that we take for granted today.
danjohn12

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what is wrong with the government

it wont happen anyway its all about controll and money all they want to to is end the internet as we know it there scard of something and we should be responable for are kidsfor what they see on the net we can block porn out on the routers and websits
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The Grand Oppressors Party...

... wants to regulate people's private lives? And that's news how, exactly?

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Those are the ideals this country was founded on. What's so difficult for people to understand about that? And why are Republicans (especially) intent on undermining that ideal? If people aren't hurting others, leave them alone to go about their lives as they see fit. It's their right.

Ut98Ex

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Re: The Grand Oppressors Party...

So how exactly is this smaller government? Oh wait that's right, they only want smaller government for the stuff they don't like. The hypocrisy is too much...

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Re: The Grand Oppressors Party...

said by Ut98Ex:

So how exactly is this smaller government? Oh wait that's right, they only want smaller government for the stuff they don't like. The hypocrisy is too much...

While Democrats want to control the internet whenever convenient:

»news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

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Re: The Grand Oppressors Party...

said by NOCTech75:

While Democrats want to control the internet whenever convenient:

»news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10320096-38.html

I think while this is fair point, realize that this is a single senator's position, and not the position of a whole party. As such, I'm not sure it makes for that great of an analogy.

Also note that there was a republican co-signer on the bill.
Wilsdom

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Liberals are actually at least as bad. Women hate it when men watch porn and want to see it banned as much as prostitution, and the Democrats are the Women's Party. The socialist/lesbian/feminist wing wants to go even further and ban advertisements targeting men, because they hate men, or any media with pretty or thin women, because most women are fat and ugly and it makes them feel bad. Seriously, this has already happened in the UK, which is a Democrat utopia.

Eddy120876

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Re: The Grand Oppressors Party...

LMAO sure yeah Liberal women hate man..LMAO sure sure
puck0114

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What a bizarre rant... Completely unsubstantiated by anything remotely resembling reality.
WernerSchutz

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Re: The Grand Oppressors Party...

I believe he is right.

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said by Wilsdom:

Liberals are actually at least as bad. Women hate it when men watch porn and want to see it banned as much as prostitution, and the Democrats are the Women's Party. The socialist/lesbian/feminist wing wants to go even further and ban advertisements targeting men, because they hate men, or any media with pretty or thin women, because most women are fat and ugly and it makes them feel bad. Seriously, this has already happened in the UK, which is a Democrat utopia.

Do you have any legislate policy backing your claims up? I'm sure feminists are okay with porn and sex without marriage.
jeffreydean1

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Re: The Grand Oppressors Party...

Um, no. feminists have been quite clear that they believe porn is evil and damaging and degrading to women and should be illegal.
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When did Socialist, Lesbian and Feminist become all grouped together?

Last I heard it was more Fem Nazi then Fem Socialist....

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said by Wilsdom:

Liberals are actually at least as bad. Women hate it when men watch porn and want to see it banned as much as prostitution, and the Democrats are the Women's Party.

Good grief.

As a woman, a liberal, a Democrat, and a feminist- I have to chime in here.

If anyone wants to watch porn that consists of consenting adults of legal age doing whatever- it's fine by me. Go for it. Have fun and enjoy.

As for prostitution, I have always felt that prostitution should be legalized, and regulated.

It would be safer for the sex workers, and for the clients. It would save taxpayer dollars that would otherwise be spent prosecuting people for a victimless "crime".

In addition, this activity could bring in tax revenue.

I also think pot should be legal, but that's a topic for another time.

So there, that blows your theory all to hell about what we liberal feminists think...
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Re: The Grand Oppressors Party...

+1

I think you hit the nail on the head what 2 consenting adults do in private paid or not is their own business regardless on how various religious organizations feel about it (and I really wish they would stay out of government because that is how we were founded on and many choose to ignore that)
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me1212

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You may feel that way, but a lot of feminist do in fact it should be banned because it makes women seem like nothing more than sex objects. They are the minority, but they exist, just visit a college campus to see it.
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Paradoxically, in a democracy your opinion means nothing: the majority rules. Prohibiting prostitution was one of Feminism's signature accomplishments, and pretty much every female politician tries to criminalize it harder. And along with prostitution goes porn. So while the Feminist Party will take your vote, if you think they'll listen to you, you're mistaken. What are you going to do, join the Tea Party? Your vote belongs to them just like the wife's vote belonged to her husband before suffrage.
danjohn12

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tv

ok why not stop playboy tv and nude on jerryspriner and on showtime and hbo stuf like that

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Homer: The internet? Is that thing still around?

Bart: I know a web site that shows monkeys doing it.

Lisa: Bart, the internet is more than a global pornography network it's--

[Homer, in the car with Bart, honks the horn]
Homer: Come on, Lisa -- monkeys!
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I think that the banning of porn would be the first stone cast in the next american civil war.. People are on anti depressants, people are stressed, people are working multiple jobs just to hang on to what they got.. Prostitution is illegal, pot is illegal.. There just isn't that many quick options for letting off some steam.. I see people dying from this "wack ban" :-p

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Meh...

The social wing of the GOP wants to ban porn, the nanny-state wing of the Democrat party wants to regulate what you eat and what your religion's views on a given subject should be. Neither side is a winner here.
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More GOP BS "science"

Research shows that children and adults are developing life-long addictions to pornography; there is a very substantial increase in demand for child pornography because many adult-porn users are finding that they are no longer excited by adult images

I've been looking at porn for over 30 years now. I have ZERO desire to look at kiddie porn. I'm surprised they also didn't say it makes you gay or want to have sex with farm animals

Eddy120876

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Re: More GOP BS "science"

Trust me sooner or later they will come to a hack job that will say that....a long the lines of women can abort after being rape.

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said by BF69:

I've been looking at porn for over 30 years now. I have ZERO desire to look at kiddie porn. I'm surprised they also didn't say it makes you gay or want to have sex with farm animals

So you're saying that porn makes you want to have sex with underaged farm animals of the same sex? Sicko.

Eddy120876

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Re: More GOP BS "science"

said by cdru:

said by BF69:

I've been looking at porn for over 30 years now. I have ZERO desire to look at kiddie porn. I'm surprised they also didn't say it makes you gay or want to have sex with farm animals

So you're saying that porn makes you want to have sex with underaged farm animals of the same sex? Sicko.

LMAO I see what you did there LOL

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Just what we need...

a Government doing the job of parents. All computers, and televisions, come with a filter to prevent children from viewing pornography. It is called the off switch. Mission accomplished, no new laws need to be passed, no new government bodies created.

And this proof for America "suffering" a pandemic of harm? We say so. How many times is Facebook cited as a major factor in the breakup of a marriage? We should ban that too.

I've only been voting for 26 years, but I don't think I've ever voted for someone as much as against someone else. Both parties are the same. See my Avatar and tagline.
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DraziGuy

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I don't get it

What is "porn induced sexual disfunction" anyways? And what about the child porn crap? Adults are getting "bored" with "normal" porn, and so turn to child porn? Does that mean when someone gets bored with their wife, their kids are in danger? Who are these people. They must be pretty fucked up if they think that is perfectly logical.

On another note, I am surprised that only 80% of teen boys view porn on their computers. Are there that many rural kids who are still stuck stealing magazines?

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Technical Feasibility

Has anyone wanting the ban bothered to look into the technical aspects of this?

People get around these types of bans all the time, what makes these people believe a ban on porn in going to be any different?
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MJB

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Some Sort of Secret Police :/

Maybe They Come Door To Door Like Illegal Music Downloads :/

Pretty F***** UP

MJB

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national raid on the sites that host it

like what happen to demonoid and megaupload
tpkatl

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This is about promoting religion, not controlling internet

The theory is that if you are not watching porn, then you will read the bible and attend church. (This helps satisfy the goals of the Religious Taliban Right in this country)

Thing is, this sort of thing shows up on presidential platforms all the time. It's meaningless crap that has absolutely no chance of going anywhere.. It makes for some fun headlines and it warms up the faithful, but even the AFA and the Morality people don't have a remote expectation of it moving forward.

And let's not forget that the porn publishing and video industry is HUGE, probably larger than the commercial movie industry. There is big money to be lost if this sort of shenanigan goes forward.

So let them play their political charades. This is silly on the face of it.
ISurfTooMuch

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Re: This is about promoting religion, not controlling internet

Oh, don't fool yourself; they'll try if given half a chance. Remember the Communications Decency Act? That thing was as harsh a law as they come, and it took the Supreme Court to kill it.

Also look at some of the anti-indecency laws that came out of Congress in the '80s and '90s. Jesse Helms was always pushing one bill or another, and several actually passed, but, thankfully, the Supreme Court ruled against them.
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That's not true it the ISPs pushing this. If you aren't downloading Terabytes of porn they don't have to upgrade their networks.

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said by tpkatl:

Thing is, this sort of thing shows up on presidential platforms all the time. It's meaningless crap that has absolutely no chance of going anywhere.. It makes for some fun headlines and it warms up the faithful, but even the AFA and the Morality people don't have a remote expectation of it moving forward.

The problem is all that religious public policy makes its way into bills and at the very least wastes everyone's time. Think Congress hasn't been doing anything. Well the GOP has introduced more anti-abortion legislation than anything else all year.

My favorite this year is editing a monument for fallen troops in WWII to highlight prayer.

Eg. (H.R. 2070: World War II Memorial Prayer Act of 2012)
»www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr2070

Eddy120876

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If you love porn say no to the GOP

This is nothing new with the GOP. Tech is good if it makes then money..tech is bad if its porn. LOL sorry bunch..LOL

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Party platforms pander to constituent groups, and extreme ends of any given political party. They aren't worth the paper they are written on, and are forgotten as soon as the convention is over.

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Re: Party Platforms Are Meaningless

said by actor90:

Party platforms pander to constituent groups, and extreme ends of any given political party. They aren't worth the paper they are written on, and are forgotten as soon as the convention is over.

Considering the number of GOP sponsored anti-abortion bills that have passed in the last 2 years, I'd say you are way off base about the platform ideology being forgotten after the convention.
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