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Originally Posted by SallyRand
Existing law covers everything that you have mentioned.
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But it is weakly enforced. If at all. If a law exists it should be enforced, online or off, no? Would you not agree with that?
I am 99% positive this thread spawned from the thread about the proposed UK porn filter. So if openly presenting pornographic material to children is against the law, and everyone and their uncle is smearing porn across the net with easy access and no age verification needed, would that not constitute open distribution of pornography to the under 18 crowd? Should we simply look the other way regarding one law, while enforcing another? Does a biased approach like this work? In the public space that is the internet, why should one law be enforced heavily (say the illegality of child pornography) while another is not (the open distribution of pornography to children)? That shit would never fly at your local newsstand selling adult mags, why should it on the net? Should we allow piracy to run rampant to protect freedom of speech?
Should I be able to walk up to someone's 10 year old daughter on the street and start talking about anal sex, ass to mouth, and swallowing my shit laced cum? Would jailing me for doing so not be a violation of my freedom of speech? So why should it be any different online? Just because the internet is a vessel for free speech, does that mean we are free to abuse it? No, but we have been...
So yes, the internet should be subject to the law, and yes the government of individual countries should have some ability to exercise controls in their user base. The wild west days are nearing their end, get fucking over it. We signed that check just as soon as we all accepted the net into the daily lives of ourselves and our families.