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Supreme Court Sides With Pornographers Again
eagleforum.org ^ | July 14, 2004 | Phyllis Schlafly

Posted on 07/13/2004 10:11:42 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

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To: Chode

It makes sense, but where would you derive the authority to mandate a .sex or .xxx extension? I have doubts about the legitimacy of such an act in the USA, let alone across the WORD WIDE web. We do tend to forget that the internet isn't American.


21 posted on 07/13/2004 10:47:13 AM PDT by Melas
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To: Servant of the 9; Bella_Bru; Jim Pelosi; ServesURight; Modernman; Melas; jwalsh07; ...
Pornography is nothing but filmed prostitution. It should be completely banned.

Those who purchase, distribute or recieve pornography are aiding and abetting a crime.

All pornography should be siezed as contraband and destroyed once it is no longer needed as evidence.

22 posted on 07/13/2004 10:48:19 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Servant of the 9
"What part of "Shall not be infringed" and "Congress shall make no law" is so hard for porno bigots and gun grabbers to understand?"

Apparently common sense and common decency are too much to expect.

I defy anyone w/ children to protect them from the rampant filth and deviancy flooding our culture today.

The 1st amendment was not written for the protection of pornographers.

23 posted on 07/13/2004 10:49:20 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: BlkConserv
Still, porn sites should be required to have a dot xxx or dot prn listing so people can block them altogether.

I think they agree. There was a move a couple of years ago by some of the big porn sites to have a .PRN or .XXX top level domain created to get people off their backs and help their customers find them, but the powers that be wanted nothing to do with it.

Some say it was because of taste. I think they are afraid to see accurate statistics on the percentage of bandwidth really devoted to porn.

So9

24 posted on 07/13/2004 10:49:31 AM PDT by Servant of the 9 (Goldwater Republican)
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To: jwalsh07
There is no undue burden for requiring ID becuase if there was 10 year olds could buy Jim Beam and 6 year olds could go down to the Dirty Harry's Women on Wheels club.

This is a good point. We restrict children's purchases of all sorts of things by requiring ID, including alchohol, cigarettes, and even movies.

Why does porn deserve an exemption? The laws don't ban porn, they simply require the user to provide ID, as with the above restricted products. I don't see the first amendment problem, especially when it could be argued that R and X-rated movies are just as much "protected speech" as porn.
25 posted on 07/13/2004 10:49:40 AM PDT by babyface00
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Right Joe, freedom be damned.


26 posted on 07/13/2004 10:50:54 AM PDT by Melas
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Me thinks TJ is in need of a good BJ.


27 posted on 07/13/2004 10:52:18 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
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To: Melas
If you want prostitution to be legal, just say so.

Anarchy is not freedom.

28 posted on 07/13/2004 10:53:01 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Phantom Lord
"There is a HUGE market for it, and the providers are meeting the demand."

Yes, one has to understand the sexuality of humans.....the most sexual animals on the planet.

Also, I have often wondered why the press and LE go after individuals as if they have committed mass murder when "porn" is found on their computers but you never see the press and LE going after the sites from which the "porn" was downloaded.

It makes one go.....Hmmmm.

29 posted on 07/13/2004 10:53:24 AM PDT by El Gran Salseron (It translates as the Great, Big Salsa Dancer, nothing more. :-))
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To: Pietro
I defy anyone w/ children to protect them from the rampant filth and deviancy flooding our culture today.

I managed, are you handicapped, or just 'slow'?

The 1st amendment was not written for the protection of pornographers.

Show me where it says that in the Constitution.

So9

30 posted on 07/13/2004 10:53:59 AM PDT by Servant of the 9 (Goldwater Republican)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

How is porn anarchy?


31 posted on 07/13/2004 10:54:20 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
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To: Phantom Lord

It hardly surprises me that you have a filthy mind. The reason you want net pornography to be legal is that you are addicted to it.


32 posted on 07/13/2004 10:54:23 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: babyface00
Porn doesn't get the exemption, the internet gets the exemption, don't confuse the 2. If you go to the bookstore and try to buy a Playboy, you have to prove you are 18.

However, the net is the WORLD at your fingertips. We've yet to come up with a way to control the net like the cash register at the bookstore.

33 posted on 07/13/2004 10:54:42 AM PDT by Melas
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To: Phantom Lord

If you support legalized prostitution, just say so.


34 posted on 07/13/2004 10:54:55 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Yes, I have a filthy mind. Addicted to internet porn? No.

Why do you have such an over riding fear that somewhere, someone is having a good time?

35 posted on 07/13/2004 10:55:17 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
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To: Melas

There are ways but social liberals are against them.


36 posted on 07/13/2004 10:56:08 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Actually, I would have no problem with prostitution becoming legal. However, that's going off on a tangent. Like it or not pornography is not prostitution just because you say it is. Even if it were, the films made in countries where it's legal, wouldn't be evidence of a crime. Wakey wakey, it's the WORLD WIDE web.


37 posted on 07/13/2004 10:57:10 AM PDT by Melas
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To: Phantom Lord

Some people have a good time pumping their veins full of heroin and I won't abide that either.


38 posted on 07/13/2004 10:57:17 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe
If you support legalized prostitution, just say so.

Prostitution is nothing more than the combination of sex and commerce. Which are you against?

And as free, soverign individuals there are many things we should be able to do with our bodies that we currently can not. Like sell our organs. They are mine. I own them, and thus should be allowed to sell them if I want. They are the same as any other piece of private property.

39 posted on 07/13/2004 10:57:22 AM PDT by Phantom Lord (Distributor of Pain, Your Loss Becomes My Gain)
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To: Melas

Filming an act of prostitution doesn't make it legal.


40 posted on 07/13/2004 10:59:13 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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