Actually, I don't really see anything wrong with opening up porn to kids - no this isn't trolling. If I were a parent, I'd want to shelter my kids from porn, but I don't want the government deciding for them what is or isn't damaging for them to see. After all, the concept of a healthy psych is a subjective one, and when the gov't making the determination and allows/restricts material appropriately, the spectre of brainwashing looms. For one, as others have said movie ratings are imposed by the industry, although they only came about following some very unjustifiable government pressure. But that aside - just because we've gotten used to some types of censorship doesn't mean we should tolerate it everywhere, or anywhere. The FCC doesn't allow me to say "fuck" on television, but I'll be damned if it will stop me from saying it on the fucking Internet. For that matter, I want someone to rewrite the TV laws.
Actually, yourname.com happens to be the site for an domain-registration company, and the top of their page teasingly asks "Has your trading name, company name or brand name already been registered by someone else?" Mmm... irony
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Actually, I don't really see anything wrong with opening up porn to kids - no this isn't trolling. If I were a parent, I'd want to shelter my kids from porn, but I don't want the government deciding for them what is or isn't damaging for them to see. After all, the concept of a healthy psych is a subjective one, and when the gov't making the determination and allows/restricts material appropriately, the spectre of brainwashing looms. For one, as others have said movie ratings are imposed by the industry, although they only came about following some very unjustifiable government pressure. But that aside - just because we've gotten used to some types of censorship doesn't mean we should tolerate it everywhere, or anywhere. The FCC doesn't allow me to say "fuck" on television, but I'll be damned if it will stop me from saying it on the fucking Internet. For that matter, I want someone to rewrite the TV laws.
Actually, yourname.com happens to be the site for an domain-registration company, and the top of their page teasingly asks "Has your trading name, company name or brand name already been registered by someone else?" Mmm ... irony