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[silversolitaire]

Please read all of these author's works! XD

http://www.livejournal.com/users/fandom_scruples/804.html#cutid1

You go, people! *slaps shoulders*

EDIT: Should I be pouty that I'm not on this list? I have HP pr0n on the net, too, dammit!

Comments

[emanuelle.livejournal.com]

Ah, the stinking bigots! *rage*

Why should it be wrong for kid who's old enough to look FOR porn, to look AT porn? We always got to see all the porn we wanted, when we wanted. If it wasn't THAT HARMFUL to children growing up, wouldn't half the European grown-ups be psychotic crack whores or something?

Bastards should have a look at their crime rates and lock up their VIOLENCE, not their porn. Honestly, what's so bad about sex. It wasn't such a bad thing when they lost their virginity in a car's back seat at 14.

[silversolitaire.livejournal.com]

Well in all honesty I'm not for kids having access to porn. Sure, when I was 14 or 15 or so I saw my first porn, but I'm not 100% sure if I really was ready for it. I remember when I was small I didn't take porn very well. I saw it as... violent and unpleasant. Especially since it's always so hushhush you get the feeling it's dirty and can't even talk about it with others. I greatly dislike the fact that 15 yos nowaday have access to the sickest most perverted forms of porn (AND horror!) via file sharers and the like. I've seen at very present examples how much this can screw up a young mind. Guidance is the key.

However, it's not the job of the providers, the government of the general public to look for this guidance. It's the parents' responsibility. We can't go ahead and cleanse the internet of all unclean and unfit content. That's ridiculous. It has to remain and free and open source. It's the parents' job to check what their kids are doing online, it's their job to engage filters and net-protection programs to keep their computers clean. Theirs and theirs alone. Not ours. The most I could imagine is to develop some sort of code everyone can put into their adult websites and then equip every browser with the ability to not show sites with that code. Something like that. But that's the parents' fucking responsibility. GUIDANCE!

And I totally agree on the violence bit. Violence is just as bad as porn, if not worse, and nobody seems to have a problem with that! -.-

[emanuelle.livejournal.com]

Well I have to say I honestly don't see any material from the internet doing any harm to children, or any more than any form of censorship does. Well, my first porn or horror was disturbing, too, but was it a bad influence in any way? Many things are disturbing and still not inherently bad. Personally I think seeking and being confronted with disturbing and scary things was actually very important for me growing up into an adult. Every day I still see disturbing and scary things and I grow up a little bit more.

I'm not saying we should spoon-feed 8 year olds porn and horror because it's good for them. But as a rule of thumb I think any child that's mature enough to enter "snuff horse anal rape" into Kazaa has the mental equipment to deal with the results. I would just want to be there, have the chance to help them learn to deal with things that scare them. And when you create taboos you'll never get that chance. I think even the attempt to "cleanse" their environment of anything that might or might not be disturbing to them is taking away their chance of learning to deal with possible negative influences in a responsible way.

My own parents just systematically isolated me from anything that could have been disturbing to me, which in the end left me vulnerable and alone when I finally had to deal with all the bad things in the world. To grow up took me much longer than anyone else I know.