[LINK] why calm, rational thought is required....

[Stewart Fist]

Adam writes
> 
> A teenager taking a photo of her/himself and putting it on the net is not
> Pornography.  It may be to some people, but to the person taking it and the
> person view it, it's not.

Labels like pornography are not, and never have been applied by those who
engage in it. 

It is a label that is applied, quite rightly, by those who have sexually
explicit photos, words, songs, or whatever deliberately or accidentally
thrust upon them.

If it is between consenting adults, then it probably doesn't justify the
label.

But it is displayed for all to see, whether they want it or not, then it
probably does.

Its a label applied by inappropriate receivers, not originators.

I think, little old ladies, sex-starved bishops, and all sorts of relatively
normal people, have the right to brand stuff 'pornography' and seek to have
it limited, if it is placed on any open network (television, radio,
newsprint, internet) in any way that means they have difficulty avoiding it.

They don't have the right (IMHO) to seek to limit anything that is
encrypted, or obviously-labeled-before-contact.

Byt, as Voltaire might have said if he wasn't such a randy old bastard:
"While I don¹t agree with what you publish, I do defend to the death your
right to publish it ... provide you respect the rights of others in the
community not to have it constantly thrust in their faces."

Rights in any democratic society are never total.

Your right to swing your arm ceases where my nose begins.



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