1) (KP) Is children viewing porn, which I agree is first an foremost something that parents should prevent their children from doing; in fact children and anything sexual doesn’t mix, full stop. However, what is the definition of porn? And if its about keeping kids away from this, what about magazines or videos that mum or dad might have in the cupboard…..or what of another adult or older person the child knows……
2) (KFP) Is children forced into pornography and prostitution. This is huge problem, and it always involves pedophilia. This should always be banned outright, and subject to the fullest legal force. Any kind of media that includes this should be banned and prosecuted. It’s sexual abuse and rape, not pornography. This being said, the abusers are mostly people the children know, and more often than not related to…including their parents.
3) Pornography in general is a dirty industry founded on subjugation. For example, I have heard that large corporations of varying specialiities (including automotive) have subsidiaries in the media industry that produce porn. Young, usually poor, people are lured into this for the prospect of income and find they cannot get out of it. There is also the criminal element associated with porn; the mafias etc.
However, that doesn’t mean that all pornography is bad, nor does it mean all pornography should be censored. In fact, there are wider social and economic problems that develop into the “danger zones”.
4) Censorship and controlling family values and “our way of life” (note this is a mantra I am parroting) is often a neo-fascist / neo-conservative policy. Mmm…….should I go to jail because I know this…..it’s not just Bush thats doing it, you know.

Come on…let’s get real. What’s going to happen if they (the government requesting Google data) match multiple inquiries to a given user’s IP address? Think that will be “just cause” to get a warrant and go after a given searcher if, say, they were going to child porn sites? Oh yeah I forgot…the government doesn’t need warrants anymore and — similiar to dissenter’s patriotism being called in to question after 9/11 — anyone fighting this will undoubtedly be painted as “siding with the pornographers and are against safeguarding our children.”

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i second that…..

thanks for the great posts from both you and Phillip Lenssen.