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Originally Posted by crucifissio
COPA was back in 1998? My point is that this is 2012 and tubes are delivering pornography by the fork lift to minors...
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/xhamster.com#
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/redtube.com#
http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/youjizz.com#
Look at the age distribution of the members, now it does say 18-24 and alexa.com does not monitor minors but it is super obvious that plenty of minors are on the tubes, if this is the only argument to make then tubes are really sitting ducks...tubes have just started to gain momentum...they are sill young...give this crap a few more years tubes will be like 90% of internet traffic 
I must say that the tubes will probably be the savior of porn...in their race to deliver as much free shit to anybody and their MASSIVE traffic they will litter the net with "gay ball suckers" and "shit in her mouth" clips...sitting ducks for politicians...any type of law passed to limit porn to membership sites would be the end of tubes...
Another thing I don't understand is how is limiting porn to membership sites infrigement on the first amendment? You don't have hard core pornography on TV or mainstream mags, its limited to pay=per view there is no free porn, without a password...how is the net different? |
You are correct in that there is a ton more free porn now than in 1998 and these big free sites have a ton of traffic.
That doesn't matter. If you use a filtering software it doesn't matter if there are 20 porn sites or 20 million porn sites they get filtered out. So if a parent wants to keep their kids from viewing porn it can pretty easily be done. Hell, these days more browsers have filters built into them.
A law could pass and could be signed by the president, but that doesn't mean it would survive a court challenge. The supreme court said during the COPA arguments that a credit card is not a valid form of age verification and that it could limit access to those who should have access. They also said that existing filters were good enough. Now it is 12-14 years later and yes, the free porn technology has improved, but so have the filters. Hell google even offers a way to filter your searches. For a law to survive it would have to have a compelling reason why filtering software no longer works.
As for it limiting free speech. the supreme court said during the COPA trial that any adult with a valid form of ID could walk into any porn store in the country and buy whatever they wanted with cash. If you limit it to membership sites you are essentially saying that a credit card (or checking account) is a valid form of age verification and that the only people who should have access to it are those people who have or are willing to use their credit card (or checking account).
What I could see happening is that they eventually force porn sites to use something like .xxx or they come up with a system that allows ISPs to filter porn at their level then if you want "uncensored" access you have to opt in, but I don't think they will ever force porn to be behind a membership.