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Originally Posted by stocktrader23
Please don't put words in my mouth or thoughts in my head. I don't give 2 shits about lost clicks from families that want to opt out of porn being available to their children. You are just making this black or white when it doesn't have to be. If they can let you opt out of porn completely then they can also let you password protect it so mom and dad could still log in but Junior could not. They do this with TV already.
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Wriggling out of giving a straight answer is your style. So now the question isn't right because it doesn't include a password for adults to opt in while blocking children. Well parents that savvy will have Net Nanny or another program that allows password protected areas. What if savvy kids get to know the password?
The simple truth is many online pornographers want 0 regulation because they know it will effect their business. Exposing children to scat, bestiality, child porn, BDSM, or even a free tube video of a girl being used as a piece of meat or screaming out abuse is fine. So long as it leaves them free to sell some more clicks.
This isn't a new stance. The stance of many over 2257 was that shooters should be responsible for 2257 documentation. Great if the shooter is outside the US. That negates the website from any responsibility. Put the Shooter in places like Russia and the problem of keeping records disappears.
Exempt "user uploads" and again the problem disappears.
Does this form of self regulation work? No. Self regulation = no regulation for those who choose to not bother in their attempts to squeeze a few bucks out.
Does this form of self regulation bring in more money to online porn? No. It allows the bottom of the barrel to dominate. Sites to give away so much free porn, the need to buy is gone. Yes it put's more money in stocktrader's pocket. but not into the industry as a whole. An enforced properly worded 2257 would remove most Tubes. Remove most porn piracy hosting sites based in the US. It would mean that they couldn't throw up free porn all day long to get a few clicks so they can bill people for a faster download.
A properly worded law against piracy would, if it included advertisers, have a big effect on the rest of piracy sites. All this would bring more revenue, more investment and better development of the Internet. And the economies of countries who adopted these laws.
Those unable to adapt, would die. Don't ask me for sympathy. I've seen offline porn shrink to a skeleton of what it was by the lack of regulation of online porn. We all know how other industries feel. Music, Films, Programming, etc. Are all against this idea of little regulation.
The probability is online porn will be regulated like offline porn and would return to being the industry it was. Real businessmen will rejoice, others will hate the idea.