Cencoring Children from the Web

[Joker Boy]

The Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 sought to ban indecent speech and pornographic images from the Internet to protect minors from reading or viewing such material. Civil liberties advocates filed a lawsuit claiming that the CDA would also deny adults' rights to view pornography, a violation of the First Amendment protection of free speech. In the following viewpoint, excerpted from the Supreme Court decision striking down the CDA, John Paul Stevens supports the civil rights view, concluding that the CDA is unconstitutional. Stevens is a justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.

What do you think? Should they cencor this stuff just because of children? I think they should because it is wrong and just repulsive!
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[Spartan Erik]

Nah; it's why they made filters.

 

[Fedlerner]

Yes..
Filters exists. But there are lot of NON porn website that have banners or pop-ups with porn..
Many little children could see that...

 

[Joker Boy]

I think porn is wrong anyways, I mean there ARE so many websites with ads for porn and stuff (watch the forum have an IntelliTXT link on the word PORN)
lol
But really, if you want pleasure just go get real pleasure, you don't need pixels to be rearanged on a plasmic object to get pleasure...(or DO you?!) :naughty: :naughty:

 

[Cubeform]

It's up to parents to censor out what they deem "indecent". Don't let the government do it.

 

[Joker Boy]

It's up to parents to censor out what they deem "indecent". Don't let the government do it.

I see what you mean now, but its using up all my bandwith!! :rant2:

 

[EsotericSociety]

It's up to parents to censor out what they deem "indecent". Don't let the government do it.

Agreed, parents have a responsibility to monitor and control their children's activities on the internet. Personally, I wouldn't even let my kids on the internet until perhaps the age of 16, because I myself have seen what can happen. However, I'm not going to have children.

 

[Zenax]

Ok, I agree that it is up to the parents what they deem fit as appropriate websites. IF they want to let their children watch that stuff, so be it, we cannot stop them.

There is technology out there, that blocks on certain words, such as WeBlocker.

 

[Aquilus]

It's up to parents to censor out what they deem "indecent". Don't let the government do it.

Agreed

 

[Joker Boy]

Allright you win this won (haha! PUN!!) :hahano: But I'll find something soon, that you cannot deny! (haha! Its like Denny's, but with one N!!) :hahano:

 

[IIN Operator]

Nothing needs to be censored. Visiting porn websites is just a phase that pre-teens go through. It's better that they grow out of it as pre-teens then never growing out of it as adults. Censorship has never done anything good for anybody and is a stepping stone to Totalitarianism.

Banning porn is like banning drugs or alcohol (which are actually even dumber things to do). Rather than preventing anything, it just makes the substance a problem of a greater degree. Why do you think that the biggest supporters of the .xxx domain name were the porn websites and the biggest opponents were the porn opponents?

 

[Joker Boy]

...ing good for anybody and is a stepping stone to Totalitarianism.

Totalitarianism. I'll look it up :biggrin:

Banning porn is like banning drugs or alcohol

And thats bad...why?

Why do you think that the biggest supporters of the .xxx domain name were the porn websites and the biggest opponents were the porn opponents?

No duh...

 

[Cubeform]

Why do you think that the biggest supporters of the .xxx domain name were the porn websites and the biggest opponents were the porn opponents?

Ooh, you've touched on the .xxx domain. If you don't know what that is, the .xxx domain was a proposed domain where all the porn sites and "indecent material" would go. The only problem was, what would be deemed "indecent"? There's still no definition of "terrorism". The definition for "planet" even is in dispute (and now we only have 8).

There's also the minor concern that porn sites would just register an additional .xxx domain; that can be solved with a couple of laws.

 

[Joker Boy]

The planet thing is ridiculous. I would start a new topic about the whole planet thing but i've made about 200 topics in the last week and I'm getting tired of it, and I think other people are tired of me getting all the points for starting the topics. Thats 5 points for every topic u start and only 3 for every reply.

 

[IIN Operator]

Yes, .xxx was a proposed domain name which filters would automatically block. Porn sites would be required to move to that domain name and cease operations at their non-.xxx domains (and the Domain Arbitrators and Governments would force them to do so).

This solution was rejected because it would actually have increased, not decreased, the popularity of porn.

To elaborate on the drug and alcohol bans, the result of those bans was to strengthen the mafia and street gangs. When Prohibition (it was actually a Constitutional Amendment) began, the beer companies (Budweiser, Coors, and the like) closed down and were replaced by mafiosos such as Al Capone who murdered everybody who got in their way and sold much more deadly alcohol. Prohibition was repealed in the 1930s and legitimate beer companies eventually took that business from the Mafia, though the Mafia would remain strong for 50 more years. The drug bans have allowed drug cartels from Columbia and their street gang agents here in America the ability to build the crime syndicates that commit almost all of the few crimes that occur these days (the crime rate dropped significantly from the previously normal level in 1993 and has remained fairly steady since 1993).

 

[djyox]

It pisses me off when people try to censor or ban things. I ask these people why and their answer is always the same "Because its the best for EVERYONE, and its just this one small thing".

They forget however, that what they think is not fact. And their small thing maybe a small thing, but if everyone was givin one small thing to change, we would live in a world with nothing at all... hell we would end up not even being alive, (you know that person who hates you and wishes you would die, that could be their one small thing)



Now, with the new Windows coming out, people can STFU because it comes with controls to better control what your kids can see on the web, or do on the computer all together.

I'm sure their will still be some lazy mofo's out there who want someone else to do their parenting for them, one of the ways would be by banning or censoring the net still.

people like this really need to lick a nutsack, think of someone other than yourself for once. Think of the whole. What you *think* is not fact, no matter how much you think it is... Just worry about yourself, everyone else will be fine if your alive or dead....

 

[djyox]

Let me just add, I don't mean not to ban lead paint or something that can harm you for a fact. I'm just saying don't be a hypocrite, don't say ban porn on the web because I don't want my kids to see it, yet have a box full of xxx dvd's and leave your kids home alone for hours.

This is the USA, land of the free. You are FREE to walk away from that strip club, your are FREE to not stand by someone when they smoke, you are FREE to smoke, drink, gamble, have sex yourself. There are areas that people can do these things, if you don't like that people are doing these things, don't try to stop them, stop youself from going or doing them yourself.

How hard is that?

 

[Hanbit]

Yep. I Agree. Its parents fault for what their children look at. Not the internets.

 

[Joker Boy]

Yep. I Agree. Its parents fault for what their children look at. Not the internets.

Well, yes and no. Pop ups. I know that you are probably not counting pop ups in this debate but I have gotten so many and almost all are for porn or ringtones with FREE porn and stuff. Its really annoying. And my website is an ANIMATION website based on ANIMATION. NOT PORN. Yet, the majority of the ads by Clicksor and Pay Popup is for porn or ringtones, or free wallpapers. Its just not right.

I mean, sure, there should be porn out there. Those guys have to get paid somehow and they don't want to work at Jack-in-da-box so they become porn stars. Surprisingly, my friend says he's gonna be a porn star when I asked him what he was interested in. And he wasn't joking, you can just tell. He's that kinda guy. He doesn't look at it much, but he does some things he shouldn't and been in the wrong crowd more than once. I just don't think he realizes it anymore. That sucks.

 

[waster]

It's up to parents to censor out what they deem "indecent". Don't let the government do it.

i agree with you