as an outsider, I read through all these responses. The back and
forth is hilarious! Ah- controversy is such the life spice.
I agree with whomever said- who the fuck cares if ANYONE sees someone's
pee-pee. That's the least of the disturbing things that exist on the
internet and the outside world for which it is a mirror. I'd be
more upset if my kid saw someone get shot on the TV. Death is worse
than sex. Censorship is worse than sex. Pee-pees good--- killing,
manipulating, discriminating bad.
www.hidingfromsociety.com
xox,
Amy from OhioOn 12/2/05, Randolfe Wicker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Something that is never mentioned in all this talk
about kids and adult content is that if they are too young, they won't find
it interesting. If they find it interesting, they are probably old enough
to be viewing it.
That was what was really wacky about that JPEG with
two kids barely old enough to walk and talk supposedly saying what their email
(porno) content was. They weren't old enough to go on a computer. If
they were on a computer, they wouldn't know what the words meant.
Randolfe (Randy) Wicker
Videographer, Writer, ActivistAdvisor: The Immortality
InstituteHoboken, NJhttp://www.randywickerreporting.blogspot.com/201-656-3280
- Original Message -
From:
Michael
Ridley
To:
videoblogging@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, December 02, 2005 12:02
PM
Subject: Re: [videoblogging] Re: Porn
Shmorn. Grow up! There's real life going on.
Perhaps. I'd argue that that decision is up to their
parents. I firstgot online in 1992 or so, and I guess I would have
been about 12 or 13at the time. My parents didn't choose to be
involved in what I was orwas not looking at, content-wise. Granted
you could say that in 1992there wasn't much general awareness of the
dangers of being online,but my dad was savvy enough to know what was
up..he just didn't feelthe need to make an issue of it, because he felt I
had the commonsense to make appropriate choices.But who knows, for
some other parents, sure maybe they want to filterthat out. But the
point is, the onus is on the consumer (parent) noton the content
provider. As the saying goes, if you don't like it,don't watch
it.-mOn 12/2/05, Enric [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Michael
Ridley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK well now this is my pet peeve. I want
everyone to shut the fuck up about
kids. It is not the mission of the world to protect all children
from anything that might be dangerous at any time in any
place. Now the whole subject of what is
or isn't appropriate for kids to see is a huge can of worms
that I am going to complete ignore because it's beside the
point. The point is - it is not my
responsibility to filter my site (or my life in
general) in the event that some child might happen upon it.
There's this concept called parental
responsibility. It's a doctrine which puts
forth the concept that if you are going to have children,
then that's an active exercise which requires
full participation for approximately 16 to 18
years. If you are so concerned about
what material of an objectionable nature your
kids may see, then set limits and don't let them see those
things. Sort of like how you might not let
them wander around the red light district of Amsterdam on
their own at 4 AM. Same concept. The correct
solution here is for parents to step up and
make rules and set limits, not to have some arbitrarily
large net of responsibility that ensares and inhibits the
rights of all adults everywhere.
I will not be subjugated by the delicate and
impressionable nature of 4 year olds.
That's a non-starter for me.
-m So people under the age of
eighteen should be kept by adults from sites like
mefeedia? --
Enric On 12/2/05, Bill Day
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
yes it is part of life... but much of this
discussion is related to kids
encountering this stuff. I like to use this
illustration in that regard.
http://www.missionarypositionsmovie.com/kiddyspam.jpg
People find it irresponsible to create a
picture like this, but then support who the
@[EMAIL PROTECTED] cares if we see a dick type of
attitude.
Ironic.
--- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, Rishey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote: Do you ask
yourself why it is that you think people shouldn't see
porn? Some of you
makemention of 'self policing' the community? Do
you realize what that sentence means?
Don'twe have enough
policing? What is
going to happen if you accidentally see a penis or a vagina?
NOTHING. THese aredistractions. THis
is life. ANd to be wrapped up in the issue of what
is decent and what
isnot is to be part of the
problem. Hello- In a
few
