IMPress Polly
07-23-2013, 06:55 AM
Another modern, democratic country taking a good step forward on this issue, following on the heels of Iceland (which the UN currently ranks as the most gender-equal country on Earth). :smiley: I think we should take our cue and follow suit. Over the next year and a half in Britain... (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2013/jul/22/david-cameron-crackdown-internet-pornography)
-Violent pornography (including rape porn) will be straight-up outlawed.
-Web searches for the aforementioned illegal images will be blocked.
-Mainly in order to protect children, pornographic material in general will be automatically filtered out of one's online experience unless they actively choose to allow it.
The Rape Crisis group has welcomed the new policy and so do I.
I think the moral problems with pornography are extremely obvious, particularly in today's world where practically everyone in the nation consumes this material as an addiction on a regular basis. The advent of freebie "tube porn" has resulted in the pornography industry losing money hand over fist. They've lost about half their global revenues in the last several years: from $20 billion a year down to $10 billion. As a result of that, they're getting progressively more desperate to sustain people's attention and hence are turning to shock value more and more. Their standard material is becoming progressively more violent and openly misogynistic in nature (including the material produced by women). And that, in turn, puts pressure on the "tube porn" people to do the same in order to be competitive. And today we have even larger ethical problems than that connected to pornography as well, including the fact that this material is not only available to, but frequently consumed by, young children, and we don't seem to care about the negative social impact of children growing up watching rape videos from elementary school age on. We don't seem to care about what impact that might have on the way the next generation thinks about girls and women. The impact becomes obvious though when we see things like what happened in Steubenville where nobody stepped in to stop that from happening, but instead the youth simply made videos of it, cheered and joked and laughed at somebody getting raped the whole time and some even joined in, peeing on her. This is the kind of mentality you get when people are watching this stuff their whole lives. And yes they are. The median age of first exposure today is just 11. We're talking most kids are watching this stuff by the 5th grade. It used to be 16.
This is just the beginning of the critiques I could offer, but I know this isn't a popular position to take in today's America and I figure you've probably already mentally branded something like "prude" or "Christian" or "can't find a guy; no experience" or something like that anyway. I know how the stigmatization goes. It doesn't seem like you're socially allowed to have a dissenting view on topics like these anymore. I'm glad to hear that now two Western countries have opted to do something serious about it.
-Violent pornography (including rape porn) will be straight-up outlawed.
-Web searches for the aforementioned illegal images will be blocked.
-Mainly in order to protect children, pornographic material in general will be automatically filtered out of one's online experience unless they actively choose to allow it.
The Rape Crisis group has welcomed the new policy and so do I.
I think the moral problems with pornography are extremely obvious, particularly in today's world where practically everyone in the nation consumes this material as an addiction on a regular basis. The advent of freebie "tube porn" has resulted in the pornography industry losing money hand over fist. They've lost about half their global revenues in the last several years: from $20 billion a year down to $10 billion. As a result of that, they're getting progressively more desperate to sustain people's attention and hence are turning to shock value more and more. Their standard material is becoming progressively more violent and openly misogynistic in nature (including the material produced by women). And that, in turn, puts pressure on the "tube porn" people to do the same in order to be competitive. And today we have even larger ethical problems than that connected to pornography as well, including the fact that this material is not only available to, but frequently consumed by, young children, and we don't seem to care about the negative social impact of children growing up watching rape videos from elementary school age on. We don't seem to care about what impact that might have on the way the next generation thinks about girls and women. The impact becomes obvious though when we see things like what happened in Steubenville where nobody stepped in to stop that from happening, but instead the youth simply made videos of it, cheered and joked and laughed at somebody getting raped the whole time and some even joined in, peeing on her. This is the kind of mentality you get when people are watching this stuff their whole lives. And yes they are. The median age of first exposure today is just 11. We're talking most kids are watching this stuff by the 5th grade. It used to be 16.
This is just the beginning of the critiques I could offer, but I know this isn't a popular position to take in today's America and I figure you've probably already mentally branded something like "prude" or "Christian" or "can't find a guy; no experience" or something like that anyway. I know how the stigmatization goes. It doesn't seem like you're socially allowed to have a dissenting view on topics like these anymore. I'm glad to hear that now two Western countries have opted to do something serious about it.