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Old 01-18-2012, 06:41 AM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by DamianJ View Post
There's no point discussing it with you Paul. You think government censorship is good. I don't. It'd be like an atheist trying to persuade a born-again Christian god is bad

I defend to the death your right to think that trusting the government to censor the internet is a good thing for the porn business.
I just don't see an alternative. Without censorship all the things I listed would be legal to publish and would encourage people to commit the crimes for the profit of selling the content to the websites.

This happened in Denmark when they took away the law of censorship and withing a short while there were many magazines with child porn. so they had to rethink the law and bring in censorship.

Nothing wrong with censorship if the line is drawn right. Recently in the UK a person was brought to court under a censorship law. He won his case because the jury decided what he was publishing wasn't obscene. Their decision has shot a hole into the law a mile wide. So it wasn't the UK, it was a jury.

Whether this law is right or wrong is another debate. But the debate on censorship is pointless, we have it and you cross the line and you'll get hammered. If a jury says you crossed it.

Yes no point in discussing it, because you'll lose the argument.
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