[pinochet]

A 12 year old child cannot legally buy cigarettes or alcohol. But he can have access to pictures and films of gay sex, s&m, and bestiality, at the touch of a button. Does this make sense?

The stores that sell hustler or penthouse, do not sell magazines to people under the age of 18. Why shouldn't the same rules apply on the internet? Bestiality is also illegal in most states, just like child porn. Then why is the stuff allowed on the internet?

The porn industry has severely harmed America's image in the world.

[edcoil]

They are watching porn on the internet and saying we are the problem.

Where have I heard this before, hum...

[library user]

Bestiality is also illegal in most states.

[dfwgator]

But I believe that all internet websites should be blocked off, with access being made possible only to adults who have credit cards. What do you think of the idea?

1. Who gets to define what constitutes "pornography"?
2. Who would you put in charge to enforce the blockage of sites?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

More porn comes out of Russia/Eastern Europe than anywhere else.

Not to mention Japan.

[surroundedbyblue]

I would argue that, yes, our smut has damaged us worldwide. However, I’d say it’s not just porn. When I was in Australia, (which is free with the porn - make no mistake) I heard many, many comments about “trashy American rubbish” coming out of Hollywood. So it’s not just porn - it’s our TV & movies, too.

[GladesGuru]

Utter, total, Bravo Sierra!

Moslims hated and attacked everyone else since MadMo first gathered together some of the local Sand Savages and set them on a path of slaving, robbery, rape, and murder.

America was unknown when the Queeran MadMo claimed it was revealed to him by the local Moon God he called Allah. The Internet was 1,400 years in the future when Moslim behavior was set in stone. Moslim behavior then was exactly as Moslim behavior is today.

PS Moslim behavior IS pornographic, as anyone who has dealt with Moslims can tell you. Google Afghan Dancing Boys if you have any doubts.

PPS Don’t forget to google Moslim “female excision”. Don’t forget to check the pictures and the videos. You will see Islam at its fundamental savagery.

[a fool in paradise]

Yes it hurts America’s image abroad. Just look at how Islamic “protesters” in Egypt raped an American journalist because she was American.

[Antoninus]

He says that the porn industry causes many foreigners to have contempt for America, as a nation of moral degenerates. This greatly harms attempts by American missionaries to get converts. It also harms US foreign policy, because their image of American culture, is that of gay sex pictures, bestiality pictures, and other peversions.

Of course it does. Our entertainment culture is a moral sewer and the rest of the world perceives us through that filter.

[Psycho_Bunny]

I’d say its hurt our image but not as badly as movies and TV have.

[Jack Hydrazine]

Which is worse?
Muslim honor killings, child abuse and wife beatings, pedophilia, and murdering infidels or good old American pornography?

[Lazamataz]

I do not favor completely outlawing pornography. But I believe that all internet websites should be blocked off, with access being made possible only to adults who have credit cards. What do you think of the idea?

I think we should get naked and screw.

[Sarajevo]

That missionary should tune in to the Saudi channels on NileSat and check out the porn there.

[databoss]

The same 12 year old girl or boy in a Muslim country can be wedded to an older man and be forced into sex ( in the case of the girl) or forced into religious state sanctioned sex slavery (in the case of young boys during war)...

[bigbob]

Aren’t Russia and Czech Republic the new capitals of p0rn?

(Just heard this somewhere)

[PeteB570]

RE the internet - ya’ gotta’ be lookin’ ta see it.

[BitWielder1]

Not as much as the drivel coming out of Hollywood.
They make big money making entertainment of behavior that would never be tolerated in reality but large chunks of the world believes that is what America is like.

[dead]

The anonymous nature of the internet is the greatest threat to tyranny since the invention of the gun.

Every attempt to censor or shut down sites for the "protection of the children" will only give powerful governments the tools they need to control all content.

Keep your eyes on your children and their internet usage, but don't let the government do the same to you.

[fnord]

Sooo, a Christian missionary is having trouble converting Muslims to his brand, and we are supposed to use this as a reason to alter US foreign policy? Or business policy? Both?

Have we reached such a state of desperation that some would deprive others of rights (heck they might even give up those rights themselves, sometimes) so as to favor one business over another? Doesn’t sound like America to me.

And why in the names of all who are holy would you want the credit card companies to be the arbiter of morality in your world?

[relictele]

Despite this crippling ‘image’ problem we are one of the few nations on earth to which hordes of immigrants flow every day of every year, including many from these so-called morally superior countries.

[AppyPappy]

Arabs are sexual deviates so the point is moot.