Freedom is not free!! It was bought with a huge price!!! I for one am very thankful for the price that was paid and to all the families that have "sacrificed" to provide that freedom. The belief that the land of the free means everyone has the right to do whatever they want at the expense of others is not what America's freedom was originally all about and how it has gotten so misinterpreted is beyond me. We cannot afford to give the porn industry a free pass to assult our children.Originally posted by Ann
The land of the free huh?
If people wants to look at porn and want to have porn sites, then let them! I don't think it's right to force them to give up their domains and move to .adult or .sex or whatever. Now, I personally despise all sorts of porn and I despise the sex-centered society we live in, but we can't go around and tell what other people can do and not do! That simply isn't right.
BTW, do a search on altavista.com for "sexual education" and you will get up banners ON altavista with sexual content. That's sad and shouldn't be like that, that one I couldn't agree with more. The same goes for spam, but I hate ALL spam and not just the "buy viagra" shit.
And as for filtering programs, nothing suck worse. I have thankfully never been on a computer with a filter like that but I have heard stories about how people with those filters installed cannot go to a page that contains a cuss word or such things.
This reminds me of the V-chip or whatever it was called that was released in the USA. I heard a good saying about that which also goes for this; "the v-chip, the modern replacement for good parenting". If you don't want your kids going to porn sites, then get involved in what they do, care and spend more time with them and so on.
So sorry, but I won't be signing that petition. I'm sure I somehow will offend people with my post, but this is how I feel about things like that.
I am not suggesting that pornography will be banned from users who want to look at it. I am merely interested in getting it to stop being so easy to unwittingly "fall" onto their sites to those who do NOT want to see it! Where are "our" freedoms and who is protecting them?
I am a very active parent with my son. I am glad that I have the kind of relationship with him that he can tell me about getting porn sites while looking for "toys" for a friends birthday present online! I am also not naive enough to believe that I can spend 24 hours a day with him and shelter him from all the sex, violence and general decay of moral values in the world today. I can only give him a strong foundation at home and hope it is enough to help him filter out the crap he is being bombarded with.
Why is is so hard for someone to switch their domain to .adult or .sex to preserve the innocense of our children. Why do they need to see someone mastrubating or performing oral sex or any other kind of sexual act on the internet? Perhaps the recent surge in kidnappings of so many children for the pleasure of child sex would not be as rampant as it is if we took a stronger stand on protecting the ones who can't protect themselves yet. The sad part is that then they are usually murdered so the perpetrator can attempt to remain anonimous without someone to tell what happened! Who tried to protect these childrens rights? I can with a clear conscience say that at least I tried even if it didn't succeed. A drop in a still lake still causes a ripple effect to some degree!!
I will take a filtering device on my PC anyday in order to try and protect my 12 year old son from being victimized by unwanted assults of pornography. That is one way I can show him I am involved in his life and that I am trying to protect him. I will "sacrifice" in order to keep him "free" from that trash! Actually it is no sacrifice for me since I don't want to have that trash unwantingly passed onto me either!!!! My home PC is in a very central room in our house so that I can see what and where he is going. When he does something innocent like looking for "toys" (something I would probably do a search on too if I was looking for general childrens toys) and is bombarded with porn, who is protecting his freedom? Who is making it safe for him to use his PC without being forced into looking at adult content.
I am sorry you feel that you can not sign the petition. Personally I don't expect everyone here too. Only those who agree with the message the petition stands for and that is simply don't make it so easy for porn to be distributed everywhere. It is no different than going to a grocery store and buying food and then one day going into the grocery store and having someone performing sex in front of your eyes when all you wanted was a dozen eggs!!!
My wish is that I didn't have to defend this post. My request wa for those "who agree" to sign the petition. I realized that not everyone would agree. There was no need to make flaming remarks about America and her being the land of the free. This freedom we possess gives us the right to sign or not to sign. There was no need to question the amount of time that parents spend with their children. Basically, there was no need to remark at all. I thought that was apparent from my original post. I would not of posted at all if I realized I was going to get flaming replies.
I will not reply to this post again. Please just ignore it if you don't want to sign the petition!!!
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