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Peer Pressure Porn Filter
Highwayman writes "Wired magazine presents one man's approach to stopping online pr0n 'Instead of relying on filters, the approach, which NetAccountability has been pitching primarily to religious groups, calls for Web users to share records of their online activity. Users pick a friend, spouse or other confidant who receives a regular report showing which sites they visit, highlighting potentially objectionable material.'"
What they are really trying to do is find terrorists - remember most are, the State just haven't found them yet!
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
This guy clearly has his head in the sand. There is no way this idea could ever succeed, you know why? Because there is no hard and fast rulebook for defining pornography. So no matter how "religious" you are, there is someone who is going to have a more restrictive viewpoint than you. When you discuss movies with friends who are "religious" you can see exactly what I'm talking about.
A lot of people who consider themselves good and faithful members of a religious group may go to see, say, The Matrix. Do you really think they want to rub that choice in other people's face? You know there's going to be any number of people that would object to the language/violence/tight leather in that movie. So why would a person put themselves in a position where they have to justify their actions constantly? No one would ever willingly put themselves through that, and I can't see how the chaos and bad feelings that would result from this could possibly be worth any perceived good.
Not in the article but this guy's next idea is to have the peer print out a big scarlet "P" and pin it on the back of someone they catch browsing any website with nudity ("That www.louvre.fr site is nothing but smut!")
- JoeShmoe
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-- I wonder which will go down in history as the bigger failure: the War on Drugs or the War on Filesharing
Not all pornography needs to be explitative (please be nice to their poor server!), you know?
Pornography habits tend to escalate. Softcore tends to lead to hardcore, tends to lead to expoitative, if one has access. And, to be completely honest, I think it is all exploitative; sexuality is not a commodity, nor are women.
I think you have been watching too much "Sex in the City". My wife and I regularly enjoy pornography *together* and I sincerly doubt that it has any potential to ruin our marriage.
You and your wife both enjoy/appreciate pronography. I'll have to admit that I have a fairly hard time seeing through your eyes, but such is life. And I'm not suggesting that it isn't stimulating or gratifying; simply that it violates the emotional contract of marriage.
Consider, though, that many women, especially religious women, don't share that viewpoint. I've seen too many women crushed by their husband's viewing habits, or shamed when he suggested that they view porn together.
I view sex as something that was meant to be shared between a husband and wife, not a husband, wife, and VCR. This software is designed to help such people.
Thomas Galvin
This is incredibly rude. How *dare* you? Who the fuck are you to decide the parameters of this "contract"? Your "emotional contract of marriage" is whatever the two people involved decide it is. Where is the moral imperative? You're the type of biggot that would object to my brothers wedding to another man.
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I didn't go to the link yet, but please oh please oh please say that you don't have to know the person that keeps track of what you look at.
If that is the case - that some total stranger has to browse through what you have been looking at - then I am TOTALLY signing up and then I'm just going to constantly look at the most disgusting and wrong things.
I will keep in contact with them and act as if I really want to "get better" and that I sure wish I could stop.
And then immediately go and start looking at donkey porn again.
Occsaionally I will try to lie to them or deny looking at the stuff, and then break down and admit that I did.
Oh wow - if this is with total strangers, then this will frickin ROCK!!!!
There are some odd things afoot now, in the Villa Straylight.
Anyone ever had a porn banner pop up if you mis-spell a common URL?
Now what? My boss see's that I visited hotmonkeylove.com and get's pissed off at me. Plus the page will still pop up if this is used in place of a standard blocking filter.
Also... anyone who needs filters/content-tattler's for/from their spouse desperately needs a new spouse, not a new anti-porn technology.
You mean you're pissed that you can't control what other people do. Tough shit.
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