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Australia Air Travelers' Laptops To Be Searched For Porn
bluetoad writes "Australian customs officers have been given the power to search incoming travelers' laptops and mobile phones for porn. Passengers must declare whether they are carrying pornography on their Incoming Passenger Card. The Australian government is also planning to implement an Internet filter. Once these powers are in places, who knows how they will be used."
Their government is full of dicks and their citizens are nothing but pussies. Bondage, Domination, Sadism and Masochism strictly enforced. Their country is perverted far beyond any porn ever could be.
The whole idea of protecting people from kiddie porn is just ludicrous. The laws are supposed to be about protecting the _kids_ from being exploited, not "protecting" adults from being exploiters (if you consider downloading free stuff from the internet to be "exploitive"... IMHO the exploitation has already happened and anyone downloading the content isn't doing anything to help the exploiters unless they are paying for it).
The point is well made that if there was no market for child porn (or indeed any sort of porn) then there would be far fewer people, if any, making it. Being a consumer of a 'good' creates a market that needs to be fed, hence it can be argued that by being a viewer of CP you are assisting the 'market' (as a consumer) and therefore encourage the creation of more 'product', which in this case involves the abuse of minors.
Personally, I think it is indeed a valid argument but your mileage may vary.
Eclectic beats from Leeds, UK
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Anime and manga should be legal. They're cartoons; Fictional representations of a fabricated encounter, often between entities which do not even exist outside of a person's imagination. Or do you think there really are impossibly proportioned cartoon people in the real world, with emotions other than those that the artist has attributed to them at the exact time being pictured? Do they have a family history? Are they going to grow up in later life and abuse other cartoon people?
Many of the the right-wing fundies/idiots believe that thinking about sinning is the same as sinning.
If someone is passing you on the right, you are an asshole for driving in the wrong lane.
Of course there was... and there will be again ten minutes after you get to your hotel room... but right now there is honestly no porn. A national firewall is clearly not going to block popular cloud storage providers.
You are moving your child pornograpy "by wire" across international borders.
Your cloud storage provider now has your hard core stuff on its servers - with every reason to rat you out the moment this becomes inconvenient or dangerous to them.
Your traffic moves over channels that every intellenge service on the planet monitors routinely - and your encryption had better be damn good, because you looking at billion dollar investments in the tech needed to break it.
where do you draw the line
He probably doesn't -- he's "progressive." If depicted, non-authentic childporn was legal, he'd argue that childporn should be legal. If childporn was legal, then he'd be spending his time arguing that having sex with children should be legal. I could even give him an argument for that! "I'm pro-choice! It's up to me to decide what to do with my body! If they let women kill babies as a woman's choice, then they should let men screw babies as a man's choice! Killing is worse than loving! Geez, what's with the social stigmas?"
It's a poor argument, but stronger than any of his current ones. That's why it is important to use an old, common moral staple, such as the bible, to build the foundation of society's rules. Otherwise, those without a moral compass will argue for moral relativism and pretty much give you a very psychologically-disturbed (but free!) dystopia in a single generation.
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I'm not a republican, and as long as republican leaders are shoring up the "tea party", I'm no tea party member either. There are perhaps a handful of good republican leaders in the entire United States, and there are even fewer good democratic leaders in the entire United States. The party itself, however, is a cesspool of corruption that is about as pious as the Richard Dawkins.
Now let me put it this way: Lust is the identical twin of Greed. It is never satisfied with what it has, it always wants more.
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