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D for Defiant
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posted June 21, 2009 04:02 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for D for Defiant     Edit/Delete Message
I am uninformed. Please educate me, folks.

Why can certain individuals get away with building their websites that promote hate crime, severely misleading statements, porn, child porn, cult worship, group suicide, anorexia...WHY?

Does this have to do with something in the US Constitutional Law or Federal Law about "Freedom of speech"?!

"Freedom of speech" as in "bullying is great" and "obesity is beauty, there's nothing wrong with it..."?!?!?!

Does it all boil down to "Freedom of speech" or something else?

Please get me better-informed. I would greatly appreciate it.

D

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GypseeWind
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posted June 21, 2009 11:37 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for GypseeWind     Edit/Delete Message
I honestly don't know D.
Maybe they open up under a guise and then morph into what the sites message really is.

There have been sites for anorexic girls to go to show pics and give support to one another on how to be even thinner! Usually those sites are shut down.
But then another opens up, under another name.
I guess it is just very difficult to keep track of the astronomical amount of sites that open, I mean whose job would that be? How many would we need to hire? How would we pay them?
I would say that the "cult" sites can get away with it under freedom of religion in our constitution.
As far as porn, that will never be controlled, there are just too many people that are interested in it.

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Dervish
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posted June 22, 2009 06:17 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dervish     Edit/Delete Message
The USA has Freedom of Speech, and the ACLU is generally inclined to fight for it (among others, such as Feminists Against Censorship, believing that censorship eventually silences women, such as when some feminists joined with the Christian Right in Canada to ban porn and then the books talking about rape and the like by the same feminists that helped to pass the law saw their own books banned under the obscenity laws).

Of course, TPTB almost always find an exception when it comes to sites that promote, or even suggest (sometimes humorously) violence against politicians and the like. But hypocrisy is nothing new.

A problem I'd have with going after these sites is that it's NEVER done with any sense. For example, filters that block porn also block sites about breast & prostate cancer. What people will consider obscene or threatening will vary widely, and some wouldn't rest until say Spongebob was blocked (and they might actually do it). I am utterly amazed and a little frightened by how many mainstream politicians were behind the PMRC that once policed music, especially given the untrue & misleading things they often said.

Same for cults...what are cults anyway? Some will have a very tight definition (so that you need a single person that controls everything--and I've seen some kids sing praises to Obama that sounded cultish, thanking him for everything good they had and would have), while others essentially consider it any religion that doesn't have enough members (I think in Russia, all--or nearly all at least--religions besides the Russian Orthodox are considered cults).

Btw, misleading statements are pretty much a daily dose within any major news outlet (FOX, CNN, MSNBC, etc), as well as about anything a politician says.

One thing I'd like to see banned are intentionally upsetting movie posters put up on billboards...I'm thinking specifically of the one for Captivity:
http://www.slashfilm.com/wp/wp-content/images/captivitybillboardbig.jpg

I got physically ill seeing that, and enough have PTSD who would be agitated by it. Even people without it said they found driving by it disturbing. But of course it was DESIGNED to be controversial, because controversy sells tickets, so by willfully upsetting people, they were increasing their profits. I'm not violent, but if I ever meet the person that came up with that marketing idea, I just might get violent.

That said, I'd just do away with the movie ratings system, at R/17 and under at least (especially as it seems to do very little to nothing to keep kids out anyway), and replace it with symbols that show what's in it (so you know if it has graphic violence, rape, drug use, promiscuity, etc) and let viewers decide based on that.

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Geocosmic* Valentine
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posted June 22, 2009 03:44 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Geocosmic* Valentine     Edit/Delete Message
People can put up child pornography sites at their own risk but they will be dismantled as soon as they are discovered and if the website owner is found, they do get into trouble with the law, so those sites aren't really allowed.

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Valus
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posted June 23, 2009 12:41 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Valus     Edit/Delete Message
Dervish,

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Valus
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posted June 23, 2009 12:49 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Valus     Edit/Delete Message

Embrace the chaos!

Every man for himself...

Everyone's values conflicting...

No way to prove the truth...

Everyone wrong, everyone right...

But fight, dammit, fight...

Strive in strife...

Take a side...

Take a life...

This is the way
it has always been.

This is the life.


~ Eris

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D for Defiant
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posted June 24, 2009 11:08 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for D for Defiant     Edit/Delete Message
If you asked me, I'd define "cults" as either those that are not recognized by, say, the US Constitutional Law, or, in simple terms- any individual or group that worships the dark forces, and encourages their followers to harm instead of to heal.

Looks like this requires further research on the US Constitutional Law and so forth.

"Make your child a bully...make her or him the best bully in your neighborhood..."

"Obesity is our Fat Pride. You are not fat enough. The bigger you are the better"

(Paraphrasing) some of those responsible for such websites, once they are found, will get themselves into trouble with law.

I would love to see the mastermind behind some psychopathological plus illegal website be tracked down. Better put him behind bars.

D

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koiflower
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posted June 26, 2009 10:06 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for koiflower     Edit/Delete Message
I once read that political correctness was a Russian plan to introduce this concept into the Western world, because eventually it will turn on itself and self-destruct.

Your thread just reminded me of that conspiracy theory, D for Defiant.

Let's face it - the older a culture is, the stronger its values. The Western world is relatively young in its evolution, and there are obvious teething problems as it seeks to define its identity.

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried." W. Churchill

Just raving, but a good point for a thread, D.

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Dervish
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posted June 27, 2009 07:45 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Dervish     Edit/Delete Message
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any individual or group that worships the dark forces, and encourages their followers to harm instead of to heal

Btw, it's always been interesting to me that those Christians who are evil and seek to persecute, oppress, and dominate are almost never the same Christians who quietly help in hospices, orphanages, and the like.

Too bad that politicians, the richest religious channels, etc, lean more to the evil kind rather than the loving kind, as that suggests the powers of evil are stronger in this nation and its people. (ETA: But then I think Jesus said something about you can't serve God AND Mammon/worldly wealth & power both...)

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