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Originally Posted by will76
actually while some of mainstream may be upset about porn in their child email, these are not the people we are going up against. They are not sponsoring bills, or pushing for legislation to clamp down on us. They are not preaching to the world we are evil. In most cases, mainstream america either subscribes to our services or opts out. The majority of parents police their children and realize it is their responsibilty to protect their kids from all harmfull things out there including pedos. It's only a portion of mainstream that gets brainwashed for the zealots into believing that the new 2257 changes actually protects kids.
I am a 100% in agreement we should police ourselves. This goes hand in hand with us starting groups to combat the zealots and also for us to advertise some good PR to mainstream america so we can offer our side of the story, the truth.
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I agree with you, however the mainstream soccer moms might not introduce legislation nor get signatures on petitions, when it comes time to cast a ballot on a porn issue that they feel can effect their children, you know what side of the fense they are on. And there are more of them then i think you give them credit for. Bush didnt lose the last election. This time he won it by a decent margin.
I fully agree that this industry need their own trade group and needs to organize. My problem is with the FSC and their propaganda machine regarding free speech. This isnt a free speech issue. This is just the government issuing this industry regulations because we cant adopt them ourselves. A better public relations campaign would be to stand up as an industry and say that we agree with the new regulations (however fucked they might be) and introduce even more regulations thata s an industry we are instituting. Fight the bees with honey so to say.
I think the problem that people have with the FSC (i know my problem with them) is they masquerade as a free speech not for profit organization while all they really are is a industry trade group. If they were a legitimate free speech organization they wouldnt have excluded all non members. When the ACLU goes to court to knock down what they feel are unjust laws, and recieve injunctions they dont only apply to paid up members. Dont be so naive to think that this agreement wasnt made with the thought of increasing the membership drive.