Why is a hearing being held on Internet Pornography?

[951-Riverside]

Its being broadcast-ed on CSPAN1 right now.

[LSK]

1. to provide comedy for the rest of the world???

[EST]

2. Diversion and deception.

[toymachines]

3. because the senators are idiotic

this FBI guy is goin on about how you can actually download videos online instantly, like it is a new thing. You don't have to buy videos online, its amazing! and now he is going on about some sex slave incident involving the internet.... how does that relate!!

[jsamuel]

5. because he is talking about both of them... DUH?!

:sarcasm:

[liberal N proud]

4. To provide cover for writing legislation to control

the internet.
They can't get their grubby little hands on the content, this is an attempt legislate control.

[Bob3]

6. Cause they've already done one on Violent Video games

And after all they need some distraction from the real problems in the country.

[MrModerate]

7. Americans -- especially the Mrs. Grundy gang --

Have an unhealthy fascination with sex.

[YOY]

8. Because when the 'Pubs are in charge

The religious right gets to whine about just what gets sand in their vaginas...and have the government listen.

[LSK]

9. is that CRYBABY Ted Stevens chairing this????

[Crankie Avalon]

10. Because some Senators are feeling horny and need a "respectable" excuse...

...for "researching" tons of porn? :shrug:

[undeterred]

23. Ding Ding Ding!

We have a winner!

[Marie26]

11. What about the NSA hearings?? nt

[BattyDem]

12. This is such a waste of time and money!

Porn is legal ... on and off the Internet! Tax-paying adults have the right to look at "dirty" pictures if they want to!!!

We don't need any more laws to "protect" the children because the laws are already on the books - CHILD porn is illegal ... period! Internet or no internet, it's illegal. We don't need "special" laws or hearings. It's ALREADY ILLEGAL and law enforcement ALREADY has the power to do something about it! So go after the perverts who get off on looking at kids and leave everyone else alone!!!

I'm so sick of all the f*cking "nanny-law," thought control bullshit!

:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[FreedomAngel82]

16. Yes

And Kerry made another bill to help with child pornography earlier this month. And those sites have to have warnings and all that stuff. AOL now has parental controls and all that if you have kids who use the internet and they have faster service as well (we don't have it anymore though so I don't know how fast it is). They should be focusing on the spying and everything else that has happened. Don't forget about little Fristy's insider trading.

[mongo]

20. Individuals have the right to look at pornography in the privacy

of their own homes -- but I can be arrested for selling any explicit movie in my inventory.

Under Federal Law, I can go to jail for up to 5 years (first offense) for the heinous crime of selling a movie made by and for consenting adults.

[khashka]

13. Diversion tactics

Who cares about the war if little girls can see penises and little boys can see breasts? So much worse than seeing a child butchered by a land mine.

It makes me sick. Orgasm is a bad thang? But maimed soldiers and dead children is a good thang? I don't think so.

This is a diversion, it is absolute crap, and it is wrong.

Khash.

[FreedomAngel82]

14. The "values voters"

It is an election year by the way. But hey who cares about all us citizen's without health care, without a job, all the corruption in government, spying on Americans, soldiers who need armor dying who would've been a live other wise etc. Let's talk about internet porn! :eyes:

[BeyondGeography]

15. I dunno, but that witness in the red dress is kinda hot!

A curious choice of color, given the topic. I bet she's a very naughty girl at heart.

[FreedomAngel82]

18. LOL

Oh you're bad!

[BeyondGeography]

21. Really, really bad

What the hell. We may as well laugh, right?

[SmokingJacket]

17. What's next; War on Porn?

Are we going to be invading Romania and a bunch of Caribbean Islands to bust up their servers? Or what?

[madrchsod]

19. to bust the internet freedoms

eliminate the porn on the internet and about 25% of the internet income vanishes. actually it`s all about getting votes this fall

[Generator]

22. Catch a clue, people. American Taliban

First they let a terrorist attack happen. Then they build absolute power over the course of a few years with a complicit press and wimpy oppostion that is also scared shitless (take your pick-losing their job, anthrax, not understanding they are being had. They start wars based on false premises-FEAR. They suspend the constitution-spy on everyone-strip everyone of privacy rights, make it okay to torture and detain you without charges if they say you are a terrorist. Next they stack the courts with ideologues-signing statments and unitary executive-that's Herr Bush-and make abortion, birth control and most forms of sexual media illegal.

You are watching it happen. It's not exactly hidden now is it? They will use the right wing religious factions to change this country to have absolute power. That is the exact nature of the American Taliban-except unlike the Taliban the leaders themselves aren't religious, just doing it all for Power. Why was Janet Jackson's nipple more important than the 60 billion dollars missing in Iraq? Oh I have no idea. Must be religion or a very corrupt government. I heard people all my life say America was in the last throes like Rome..and here it is..but it's not the freedom..it's the terrorizing of it's own people that will be the end of America.

[nomaco-10]

24. Because they're obsessed with SEX....

They are obsessed with abortion, a procedure to end an unwanted pregnancy as a result of unprotected SEX. They are obsessed with people that are gay because they don't approve of the SEXual preferences of consenting adults. They are obsessed with SEX slaves in third world countries, but never offer to send food and medication, they would rather people die than have SEX. Which is why they put restrictions on AIDS medications to the dying people of Africa lest they pick up these life saving drugs where an abortion may be performed or a condom may be passed out to someone that wants to have safe SEX. They don't want young people in our school systems to discuss the issues of SEXual activity and the consequences and responsibilities, only abstinence from SEX. They are the most uptight, SEXually repressed, obsessed people on the planet.

I have usually found that the people that like to talk about SEX the most, are generally the people that aren't getting any.

[Dulcinea]

25. Do they want more of it?

What, not enough porn e-mails in the junk filter?