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Originally Posted by gleem
but seriously, I use ASACP label, mostly out of fear that I would be accused of doing nothing, but at the same time I think I'm just setting myself up to be filtered and targeted for prosecution in the same manner as .xxx would.
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i will concede the point that labeling your site with ICRA or RTA, could get your site filtered/blocked by companies.. that is actually the whole point of labelling.
If corporations don't want their employees to be looking at porn, they are allowed to block.
if parents don't want their kids to see porn, they should be given tools to block,
if adults don;t want to see porn, they should be able to block it,.
The argument is made that labeling makes it easier for them to block. absolutely, but there are blacklists of porn sites already, put together by third party companies that are used in various firewalls and proxy servers.
Labeling doesn't target you for prosecution, you are saying you have adult "legal" content, nothing more.
If anything, i see it as a better defense in court, when you can say you did label, and that it was the paren'ts fault for not implementing technology that would have blocked access to your site.
.XXX is requiring labeling for their TOS. Congress has bills in process to require mandatory labeling. Rather than be forced to label, i think its better to self-label. But in the end, the smaller group that does it, will be overshadowed by the websites that throw up hardcore porn right on first viewing, do SEO trickery, bad marketing, etc.
Those websites become the poster child for conservatives, and negates any positive, pro-active things that other webmasters are doing.
THis is why some in the adult biz support .XXX, and its mandatory requirement, because it will be the only way to "clean things up" as Stuary Lawley (ceo of ICM) says all the time.
And to some extent, he is right.. .self-regulation isn't working.. look at how many aren't even compliance with the 12+ year old 2257 law.. and that is already a law.
Fight the tangent!