U.S. government to fight war on porn

[RZetlin]

Administration wages war on pornography

Obscenity: For the first time in 10 years, the U.S. government is spending millions to file charges across the country.

WASHINGTON - Lam Nguyen's job is to sit for hours in a chilly, quiet room devoid of any color but gray and look at pornography. This job, which Nguyen does earnestly from 9 to 5, surrounded by a half-dozen other "computer forensic specialists" like him, has become the focal point of the Justice Department's operation to rid the world of porn.

In this field office in Washington, 32 prosecutors, investigators and a handful of FBI agents are spending millions of dollars to bring anti-obscenity cases to courthouses across the country for the first time in 10 years. Nothing is off limits, they warn, even soft-core cable programs such as HBO's long-running Real Sex or the adult movies widely offered in guestrooms of major hotel chains.

Department officials say they will send "ripples" through an industry that has proliferated on the Internet and grown into an estimated $10 billion-a-year colossus profiting Fortune 500 corporations such as Comcast, which offers hard-core movies on a pay-per-view channel.

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Forget about Bin Laden, the real threat to America is porn!

I hope the U.S. government realize that the porn industry is one of the few industries that is keeping the American economy going.

[RF]

What a "Hard" job

[l3illyl3ob]

it's hard to get the full grasp of the situation in that article, it's incredibly biased and one-sided, but most of the arguements reported were extremely weak. Ashcroft says porn is invading american media, and leaving victoms across the country, when to my knowledge, no one has ever been forced to look at porn (aside from the super bowl fiasco, which wasn't actually porn or affiliated with the porn industry) in america, the people who do watch it watch it by choice, and are consumers. Such arguments would not hold up in any decent court of law, and i see no actual danger to the porn industry here.

[Kirby]

NNNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

Thank god most of the pron I like is overseas, so I'm safe for now

I want that job!!

[wise_evian]

Pron is the shiznit..If it becomes illegal ever..id be the first one to start bootleggin

[Syed Fawad]

US going against porn? I hope Bin Laden doesn't join forces with pr0n ....Oo

[RZetlin]

Originally Posted by l3illyl3ob

it's hard to get the full grasp of the situation in that article, it's incredibly biased and one-sided, but most of the arguements reported were extremely weak. Ashcroft says porn is invading american media, and leaving victoms across the country, when to my knowledge, no one has ever been forced to look at porn (aside from the super bowl fiasco, which wasn't actually porn or affiliated with the porn industry) in america, the people who do watch it watch it by choice, and are consumers. Such arguments would not hold up in any decent court of law, and i see no actual danger to the porn industry here.

I remember watching a documentary on the porn industry.

In the documentary, Ashcroft was ready to go after the porn industry, but 9/11 happened where he was forced to focus his attention on the terrorist.

Looks like Ashcroft has time on his hands to bust some porn.

[Strider]

oh hooray, america is ready to try to take down the whole internet again isnt going after pr0n quite vague? its like going after disease, something which they should try doing instead of making these dumbass publicity stunts

[Ryos]

Originally Posted by RZetlin

I hope the U.S. government realize that the porn industry is one of the few industries that is keeping the American economy going.

Uh...yeah.

Anyway, I've always found it funny how with so much violence in the world, the human body seems to be the most disturbing thing in the world. If they're so afraid, why not graft clothes to their bodies and be done with it?

Originally Posted by Ryos

Uh...yeah.

Anyway, I've always found it funny how with so much violence in the world, the human body seems to be the most disturbing thing in the world. If they're so afraid, why not graft clothes to their bodies and be done with it?

Wouldnt wanna infringe on our right to privacy and free speech now would they?

[hellmasterx]

if they dare to touch my library of porn il make them pay, il join the porn revolutionary faction hwo's with me?!!!!!!
is our right to protect our porn join the faction today and you get free porn!!!!
yes you hear it right!!!
the U.S. government is crazy, why not invest this huge amount of money in something else

[bcrew1375]

Originally Posted by hellmasterx

if they dare to touch my library of porn il make them pay, il join the porn revolutionary faction hwo's with me?!!!!!!
is our right to protect our porn join the faction today and you get free porn!!!!
yes you hear it right!!!
the U.S. government is crazy, why not invest this huge amount of money in something else

Why? Why, you ask? It's quite simple. If we do not take pornography down, terrorists are going to start using it to brainwash common civilians. Those civilians will then begin to destroy national landmarks in whatever way possible. We must stop pornography now!

[Gamer1]

this is a war for a sake of having a war against something. if it's something i learned from history, american's always wants to fight for a cause, and it also looks good for the republicans leading a "moral" crusade.

[wise_evian]

I'm enjoying all the sarcastic posts. In this day in age I believe taking away porn is like prohibition back in the early days; everybody will bootleg. I shall be the first one hip hip hooray for the hand and the cream ..hip hip hooray! hehe

[Boltzmann]

It's another Holy Crusade waged by the Bush administration. Bush and his cronies really have turned the US into a theocracy.

Fortunately you americans can still vote them out of office. At least I know that all my american friends that are transhumanists will be voting for Kerry on November. Same for all American Atheist members, and every free-thinker in the country.

[aerith099]

Not to mention anybody with a conscience, Boltz.

[Takmadeus]

Lol..... if they are going for porn, then every politician and cop in the US will be arrested

what an irony

[Boltzmann]

Originally Posted by aerith099

Not to mention anybody with a conscience, Boltz.

I'd say it, but I don't want a certain member of these boards jumping over me saying that I'm anti-american

[Kaiser Sigma]

Geez, these are the times when one is grateful for living on a land of exteme corruption... long live to third world countries, the lands where p0rn roams free and p2p services are as common and normal as the very air we breath

[wise_evian]

its like..if anybody wants to get a peice of the "pie" and they cant find it just visit Thailand or a 3rd world country where its legal "and right" imo hehe to buy the "pie" if you get what i mean hehe..of course that kind of travel = a really expensive "pie" lol