So, what say you great thought leaders of the AB forum.
I was listening to a podcast where the guest/hosts were talking about internet and Porn. The host claims that the internet is public, and that porn on the internet should be treated the same as a flasher who flashes in the street and gets arrested. The other host made the claim that it's the parents fault for letting a child access to porn on the internet. The other host disagreed, saying, that a store would be punished if they allowed someone in the back room of a dirty video store or sold a magazine to a minor.
One host is basically advocating for arrests of those who post porn or allow the posts of porn on "public websites" and that porn websites should be heavily regulated. The other guest is saying that its up to the parents.
My own take is this. The internet is like a library. The library is in the public space, and one has to physically go to access the books. This goes the same for the internet. Now, in the case of a store, the gatekeeper is the clerk denying access to pornography to a minor. In the case of the library, it's the librarian/workers. In a library, however, there really isn't much that librarians are going to do if a minor reads explicit material because I'm not sure that most libraries have explicit material sequestered.
This idea that this is the same as "the flasher" who'd get arrested is just a terrible analogy. This is worse than the take I saw a week ago when a leftist said how is pride events with nudity any different than the nude Florida beaches that Desantis allows. A parent would have to take a minor to the nude beach and could be subject to arrest. Why not at a pride event? The problem here is that some parents might not have known what explicit actions would occur at a pride event. Some might and not care.
So this all begs the question. What do we do about easily access porn and who's at fault?
States requiring ID for porn are moving in the right direction. The fundamental issue is that most porn websites are out of country, and the only solution might be for the country to deny access to those websites. If that happens, I'm not sure we'd be any better than the CCP.
I was listening to a podcast where the guest/hosts were talking about internet and Porn. The host claims that the internet is public, and that porn on the internet should be treated the same as a flasher who flashes in the street and gets arrested. The other host made the claim that it's the parents fault for letting a child access to porn on the internet. The other host disagreed, saying, that a store would be punished if they allowed someone in the back room of a dirty video store or sold a magazine to a minor.
One host is basically advocating for arrests of those who post porn or allow the posts of porn on "public websites" and that porn websites should be heavily regulated. The other guest is saying that its up to the parents.
My own take is this. The internet is like a library. The library is in the public space, and one has to physically go to access the books. This goes the same for the internet. Now, in the case of a store, the gatekeeper is the clerk denying access to pornography to a minor. In the case of the library, it's the librarian/workers. In a library, however, there really isn't much that librarians are going to do if a minor reads explicit material because I'm not sure that most libraries have explicit material sequestered.
This idea that this is the same as "the flasher" who'd get arrested is just a terrible analogy. This is worse than the take I saw a week ago when a leftist said how is pride events with nudity any different than the nude Florida beaches that Desantis allows. A parent would have to take a minor to the nude beach and could be subject to arrest. Why not at a pride event? The problem here is that some parents might not have known what explicit actions would occur at a pride event. Some might and not care.
So this all begs the question. What do we do about easily access porn and who's at fault?
States requiring ID for porn are moving in the right direction. The fundamental issue is that most porn websites are out of country, and the only solution might be for the country to deny access to those websites. If that happens, I'm not sure we'd be any better than the CCP.
