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Originally posted by TheEnforcer@Jun 18 2005, 03:16 PM
You would be surprised how closely religious right groups follow porn issues like the current 2257 issue. Some of those groups do everything and everything in their power to get laws regarding porn changed and know a lot about issues like 2257. I have little doubt that there will be many people in those anti-porn groups that will have just as much or more to do with geting enforcement actions going against people by prodding the government along as there is from government agents enforcing the actions though only their own actions.
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why would i be suprised that a few whack jobs obsess on what they feel is the new silver bullet to further their cause. go to your mall and start asking random people to explain what 2257 means and they will not have an answer. the average person has no idea. the average person does not even know the capital of Iowa... much less what 2257 is and if it is important or not.
Bush said from day 1 that he was coming after porn. before Bush, there was already a massive uproar with COPA, FTC investigations and obscenity prosucutions under Clinton.
maybe i missed something? 2257 requirements existed before the internet. less than 10% of the adult web even went as far to make a half assed attempt at complying. the industry has never made an attempt to protect minors from porn while knowing it would be a huge problem politically. instead everyone was busy double billing credit cards, reseting homepages to scat.com and spamming 10 year olds with hardcore HTML e-mails. so after 10 years almost, the government attacks. why would anyone be suprised?
is anyone willing to go on record explaining how they were completely caught off guard they were and had no idea that tough laws were coming? doubtful.
i am no more suprised at christians for wanting to curb the availability of porn online than i am at democrats for proclaiming anyone who tries to deal with illegal immigration in california as being a racist while the economy continues to be bankrupted. in politics, each side is equally fucked up and ignorant.. it has to be for the system to be in balance. what keeps the wheels of our political system turning is the pathetic fact that it is everyones belief that there is only one right answer, they know it and the other side is wrong.
every political group has agendas... no matter which side of the fence they are on. that was my only point in responding.
i am not saying i agree with the 2257 laws... i don't. but at the same time, i dont care. I dont agree with a lot of things in the world. i dont agree that a hair dryer should have instructions on them telling users not to use them while taking a shower... i would prefer those people were electrocuted. but thats life. you adapt and overcome or die. that is what business is. the more pressure put on this business, the more successful i will be. end of story.