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U.S. declares War on Porn
Baltimore Sun ^
| April 5, 2004
| Laura Sullivan
Posted on 04/05/2004 9:23:56 PM PDT by Quick1
WASHINGTON -- Lam Nguyen's job is to sit for hours in a chilly, quiet room devoid of any color but gray and look at pornography. This job, which Nguyen does earnestly from 9 to 5, surrounded by a half-dozen other "computer forensic specialists" like him, has become the focal point of the Justice Department's operation to rid the world of porn.
In this field office in Washington, 32 prosecutors, investigators and a handful of FBI agents are spending millions of dollars to bring anti-obscenity cases to courthouses across the country for the first time in 10 years. Nothing is off limits, they warn, even soft-core cable programs such as HBO's long-running Real Sex or the adult movies widely offered in rooms of major hotel chains.
Department officials say they will send "ripples" through an industry that has proliferated on the Internet and grown into an estimated $10 billion-a-year colossus profiting Fortune 500 corporations such as Comcast, which offers hard-core movies on a pay-per-view channel.
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Interesting. Hopefully it works as well as that "War on Drugs" thing we had a while back.
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:23:57 PM PDT
by
Quick1
To: Quick1
I like porn....
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:24:46 PM PDT
by
Hunble
To: Quick1
If it does, every schoolkid in America will have ready access to porn.
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04/05/2004 9:24:56 PM PDT
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:25:02 PM PDT
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(If Woody had gone straight to the police, this would never have happened!)
To: Quick1
Another government tax boondoggle. Unless it's children, who CARES?
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:25:10 PM PDT
by
cyborg
To: Quick1
To: cyborg
I think the problem may be that they have to look in order to find the child pornography, so all falls under their gaze.
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:27:02 PM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
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To: Hunble
Me too...
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:27:56 PM PDT
by
maxamillion
(covey leader to raven.... covey leader to raven.... come in Johnny)
To: cyborg
They can stop it and shouldnt try to unless there are innocents involved,
BUT there should be some regulation on the dispersal of porn to try to keep it from readily falling into the hands of kids.
Kids are gonna find it, but it shouldnt show up unsolicited.
In the old days a kid wasnt gonna walk into the porn shop and thats the way it should be.
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:30:13 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: mylife
thats they cant stop it
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:30:55 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: Pan_Yans Wife
Sheesh. Well I guess someone has to do it. I saw child porn once. When I refreshed the page to get the URL to forward to the FBI the page was already taken down. Unreal.
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:31:12 PM PDT
by
cyborg
To: Quick1
Lam Nguyen's job is to sit for hours in a chilly, quiet room devoid of any color but gray and look at pornography.Like so many federal jobs, a waste of time and a total waste of tax dollars.
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:32:19 PM PDT
by
quantim
(Time is not relative to things, things are relative to time.)
To: mylife
Parents really need to be vigilant. I agree pop up ads and the like should not show up unsolicited. Incidentally, I got a XXX pop up while visting the Abercrombie and Fitch catalog *LOL*
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:33:45 PM PDT
by
cyborg
To: Quick1
Our government IN ACTION or is that 1 word?
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:33:57 PM PDT
by
breakem
To: cyborg
I saw plenty of dirty pics as a kid, but it didnt just show up in my reasearch as I was doing homework on the computer
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:35:30 PM PDT
by
mylife
To: Quick1
In a short time we went from a President who viewed it to a President who fights it.
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:35:45 PM PDT
by
Andyman
To: quantim
Today, if you get exposed to child pornography, you can bet that there is some Government employee posting it.
This is how they justify their jobs.
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:36:09 PM PDT
by
Hunble
To: Quick1
spending millions of dollars to bring anti-obscenity cases to courthouses across the country for the first time in 10 years. It's not like they have anything better to do with those millions, like catch kidnappers and kiddie porn producers, stop terrorists, etc. I'm sure they'll be just as successful as they were with the WoD, and maybe even manage to drive the business underground, depriving the government of tax revenue and increasing the likelihood of women getting abused.
To: Quick1
Wonder what the job criteria is to watch porn all day.
Do the men get debriefed at the end of the day?
Does it lesson their desires for their spouse in the private life, like eating chocolate untill you get sick?
I think this is a good job for women not men. We would be more objective.
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:38:46 PM PDT
by
oceanperch
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To: mylife
There are plenty of good internet filter programs and there are internet dial ups who screen XXX pics from their servers. I suggest every parent have either a filter program or get server based filtered company thing. There is a lot of porno out on the Internet but I am skeptical anytime the government expresses an 'interest' in internet policing.
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posted on
04/05/2004 9:39:16 PM PDT
by
cyborg
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