Interesting read ...
fingers crossed for next week!
If this were to happen, I'd have to pull a couple of sites down, change all tours & banners to not show pink bits, breasts etc ... and I don't even run tgp's.
So while I hope it happens overall, because something needs to stop the tgp problem, there are many cases where I would be concerned at it going overboard - like they said in the article, sex education becomes 'obscene' in the eyes of this law.
It means we'll have the same censorship problems online as we do in mainstream ... why should it be any different?
TE, you mentioned 'losing freedoms', but isn't it just bringing this medium into line with the others? Where in mainstream (TV, radio, magazines etc) are you allowed to do what we do online? Remember the 7 swear words rule? (shit fuck cunt cocksucker piss motherfucker and tits) You can't say these on tv and radio ... isn't that stepping on our freedom? You can't show a xxx porno on cable tv at 7pm ... why not? fuck it we should have freedom to do whatever we want and be trusted to use our judgement, right?
When you give everyone freedom, there are always going to be some (many at this board) who will do whatever they want whenever they want without thinking of the consequences. This is why we have laws ... because if we didn't, there would be no ability to take action to prevent these activities.
Why should we be able to publish tens of thousands of EXPLICIT porn pics & videos and not be responsible for keeping little eyes away?
In the end, there will be laws passed to bring the Internet into line with mainstream ... as with mainstream, if the 'sexually explicit content' is for educational or information purposes, the law can be more flexible. If you run a tgp with 100's of galleries ranging from pissing to teen to anal sex, you may as well start packing boxes, because you'll have to move out eventually.
I'm with Vick, go copa ;-)