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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Very true they bent the law to get a conviction on a guy who was well warned and chose to ignore it. I would bet a cent to a dollar that after he got off the previous charge his lawyer warned him to keep inside the boundaries.
As for the Internet crossing country, State and county lines and showing illegal material for that region. If I set up a shop in a town in Tennessee, or any other Conservative State, selling Scat videos and end up in prison who's fault is it?
Do we have the ability to look at States and block them ourselves? AFF seem to know exactly where I am. Or is it because we are on the Internet we can ignore any law Tennessee decides to pass?
The voters of Tennessee have a freedom to vote for the local Government and laws they want. Where does our freedom impinge on theirs?
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This is how I feel about it.
If I want to go into a town in Tennessee and open up a porn shop the people of the community I am going into should have a right to say whether they want or don't want my business in their community. The business is in their community. They will be driving by it on a regular basis. The other businesses near it will see it and have to deal with it. I feel this way about every business. If someone wants to open a restaurant that serves dog and the people don't want it they should be allowed to deny them. It is, after all, their community. I understand this can be taken to extremes, but I feel (within reason) a community should at least have a say in what type of businesses it has in it as well as what laws and standards they want to live by.
That said, the internet has nothing to do with the community. The internet is a paid for service. You have to buy a computer then pay for service from an ISP and in many cases have that ISP come to your house and set things up. Once connected Max's site doesn't magically then appear on your screen. You have to go looking for it. Sure, porn is easy to find on the internet, but that doesn't change the fact that you went searching for it. If you went looking for it you can't then claim to be offended by it. The only people that know I am looking at it are me, anyone I choose to tell and to some degree the site I am looking at. If I purchase a DVD online and have it mailed to my house then watch it, again, no community is involved. Nobody knows I am watching it but me, anyone I choose to tell and the DVD company the mailed it to me.
When I sit at my computer and surf the web, my neighbor's don't know it. They have no say in what I look at or where I go. There is no building or physical business in the community that they have to see/deal with. They are simply not involved and their lives are not effected. If they are not involved, then the community standard cannot be allowed to be applied. No community involvement, not community standard.
For the community to tell me what I can look at on my computer or what type of DVD I can order and watch in my house it is no different then me now having to ask them if the book I want to read is community approved or the CD I want to listen to is okay by them. I don't ask those things because they are not involved and what I do in my house is my business. If they don't want to see Max's porn, no problem, don't go looking for it. Problem solved.
That is just my take.