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Originally Posted by Quentin
You make some interesting and valid points -- but how exactly does the industry go about 'picking' its battles with respect to obscenity prosecutions? The government decides whom to indict, and the lawyers involved have a professional, ethical and legal obligation to defend their clients, and to do so vigorously. The industry's support for people who get indicted is typically rhetorical/verbal in nature, only (it's not like we're all lining up to contribute to the Max Hardcore Defense Fund here, after all....)
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how did the movie industry do it? they were proactive. they had the brains to understand the problem and the intelligence to organize and solve it. they created a ratings system and they police themselves so the federal government doesn't have to.
i'm not saying thats an answer for porn... but it shows that a similar situation existed, people took a proactive stance to protect their industry and many decades later, no one is challenging them on it.
this industry does the exact opposite. it waits for the wrinkly old disgusting guy to get busted for pissing down a girls throat as she chokes and cryies... then when the thunder comes... 1/2 the people act as if they should be defending it no matter what, or are totally confused as to why a society should be concerned.... as if that makes any fucking sense at all or is going to have any meaningful impact in the big picture of things.... and in the meantime, the next old, disgusting wrinkly fuck is out there doing much worse things, and bringing the same heat again... and again and again.