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Originally Posted by BoyAlley
In case you haven't noticed, the "mom and pop" webmaster is going through the process of being regulated out of existance right now in the USA. Increased regulation doesn't hurt the big boys, it hurts the mom and pop. That's true in ANY industry. How many mom and pop shops have the new 2257/4472 knocked out of existance already?
Increased acceptance in the mainstream will eventually equate to more resonable governance over our industry.
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In an industry that almost anyone can enter into with little or no money, you have to think long and hard about government regulations. Are they necessarily bad? Of course anything the government touches goes to hell. Left unregulated, this industry (online) is the wild wild west.
The majority of people in this industry are good, law abiding business people. The others, and it only takes ONE, ruin it for everyone else. You can't expect an industry of any sort to never have any standards. Many of the laws already existed, they just started picking and choosing how and when to enforce them.
It would be great if we were all truly free to express what we want and feel sexually, but as long as the rich and the religious are whispering in our law makers ears, it's going to be an uphill battle.
Being on the "mom and pop" side of the spectrum, I can relate to and understand the threat but I am also willing to do what it takes to comply with standards. If it gets to be more than I can handle or want to be bothered with, I will move on. I lived before online adult and I'd continue to do so afterwards, if it came down to it.
Don't get me wrong, I don't think the government should have any say over what consenting adults want, do, think and feel sexually (as long as it's not *harmful*) but if they outlaw internet porn tomorrow, there will be a whole lot of whining and nobody to blame but ourselves for not being more proactive and preventative.
