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Tories Target Child Porn With New Bill

Nov 28

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Link: http://www.lfpress.com/news/canada/2009/11/24/11906756-sun.html

So here’s the talking point that smooths this over and gives everyone that feel good feeling:

“The federal government is cracking down on online child pornography with new legislation that imposes stiff fines or jail time for internet service providers that fail to report illicit material involving minors.“

From experience, I can say that this is a waste of time, and an insult to anyone even remotely close to this. When I was working at XTube I ran into more child porn than I care to remember, and I certainly did not just sit on it and hope nothing would happen. I reported it. Would you like to know what reporting it got me? Reporting it got me nothing. Nothing accomplished. Nothing. Even after I had established lines of communication with law enforcement.

In fact, it was so worthless to report to them that I began to wonder if they were involved in the whole child porn business. It made me so damn angry – Correction – it STILL makes me so damn angry! I asked our lawyer what he thought of the situation – me reporting all of these violations against humanity – and he said something I hadn’t even considered. He said that they’re not responding to you because they’re possibly building a case against you. Read the rest of this entry »

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Scattered Thoughts on Sex, Porn and Growing Up

Nov 7

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The internet seems to have been invented specifically to enable pornography a chance to become a common household item/idea/topic. Imagine where porn would stand today had the internet NOT come along at all. Would it still be limited to books, magazines and videos? Only available in stores willing to carry adult material – you know the ones – big red letters blaring, “ADULT” and “XXX” over top of poorly blacked out windows (usually covered by big sheets of sun-bleached paper), tucked away in the corners of plazas or on the far side of town, carefully placed where almost no one can see you come and go. Actually, that’s not entirely accurate anymore – I’ve seen several directly neighboring children’s stores. Perhaps that’s a powerful indicator of the state of porn today. Porn is so common, so accepted, and even expected, that a triple x video store can be situated right beside a second-hand children’s clothing store and no one notices.

I remember when I was in high school (in the mid-90′s) looking at the girls in the school -they were drastically more conservative when compared to the school girls of today’s teenage girls, who dress to display their sexual attributes. Read the rest of this entry »