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Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 08:02 PM Sep 2012

This November, will you be voting to censor consenting adult porn?

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/08/28/755201/gop-platform-calls-for-prosecutors-to-vigorously-target-porn

Or will you be voting for Obama?
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My entitlement mentality makes me want to tell others what they can watch. Im voting Romney.
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I support free expression for consenting adults. I am voting for Obama.
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This November, will you be voting to censor consenting adult porn? (Original Post) Warren DeMontague Sep 2012 OP
OBAMA!!! ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2012 #1
Feel free to repost in GD, if you're up for it. Warren DeMontague Sep 2012 #2
Oh god, no.... ProudToBeBlueInRhody Sep 2012 #3
Not to pick at nits 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #4
They don't think it is. They'd like to see broad obscenity prosecutions for anything "hardcore" Warren DeMontague Sep 2012 #5
Perhaps but the quote said existing laws 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #7
The argument is that existing laws, "properly" enforced, would allow censoring of pictures of nudity Warren DeMontague Sep 2012 #8
I don't think existing laws allow for that 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #9
It ties into the definition of "obscenity" and "community standards" Warren DeMontague Sep 2012 #10
The article says it was shut down 4th law of robotics Sep 2012 #11
Right, it depends on the interpretation of the current law. Warren DeMontague Sep 2012 #12
Here, I fixed the image: Warren DeMontague Sep 2012 #6
They are always wanting to talk about GOD. William769 Sep 2012 #13
I think in the interest of fiscal responsibility Warren DeMontague Sep 2012 #14
Agreed. William769 Sep 2012 #15

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
2. Feel free to repost in GD, if you're up for it.
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 08:28 PM
Sep 2012

I'll weigh in, but right now I simply don't have the energy to do it myself.

ProudToBeBlueInRhody

(16,399 posts)
3. Oh god, no....
Thu Sep 6, 2012, 08:29 PM
Sep 2012

I can only imagine the outrage from the few (do you think they even watch the convention?), and tonight is not the night.

 

4th law of robotics

(6,801 posts)
4. Not to pick at nits
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 10:03 AM
Sep 2012

but from the article it says they've vowed to enforce existing laws more vigorously.

I'm not sure what all that entails but since most porn is perfectly legal I don't really see a problem here.

Also this:


Could come from any rad-fem site.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
5. They don't think it is. They'd like to see broad obscenity prosecutions for anything "hardcore"
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 02:43 PM
Sep 2012

for instance, hardcore meaning an actual visual depiction of screwing.



 

4th law of robotics

(6,801 posts)
7. Perhaps but the quote said existing laws
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:23 PM
Sep 2012

If that's all there is to it I don't see any real issue here.

If they try to add to existing laws I will oppose them (depending on the law I guess).

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
8. The argument is that existing laws, "properly" enforced, would allow censoring of pictures of nudity
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 03:28 PM
Sep 2012

and fucking. That's the argument.

Where the money is going to come from to pay for all the naked boob internet cops, I don't know. Probably the same place that will pay for all the abortion and birth control police.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
12. Right, it depends on the interpretation of the current law.
Fri Sep 7, 2012, 05:54 PM
Sep 2012

It was activated AND shut down without any changes to the law. Again, it depends on the interpretation, and how vigorously, say, the justice department is going to get into trying to find juries, etc. that will go along with these interpretations, again, of "obscenity" and "community standards".

Part of the issue, again, is that "obscenity" (like porn, as per P. Stewart) is in the eye of the beholder, and "community standards" are a shifting sand dune.

What the GOP platform is saying is that if elected, they will (as Bush did) make this a priority at the DOJ. Frankly, I think my tax dollars have better things to do than go after consenting adults for fucking on film.

Warren DeMontague

(80,708 posts)
14. I think in the interest of fiscal responsibility
Mon Sep 10, 2012, 01:51 AM
Sep 2012

they ought to explain how much all these masturbation and birth control cops are going to cost the taxpayers.

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