The first amendment and online pornography (illegal aliens, regular, free speech, leader)
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So if pornography is protected by the first amendment and is a victimless thing, according to insane liberal progressives, then the ownership of firearms should not be restricted in any way and fully protected under the second amendment. After all, firearms are not hurting anyone on their own, irresponsible people are. To say that online pornography, violent video games and sleazy TV shows and movies are not harming the mental sate of adolescents in any way is seriously ignorant.
The thing with pornography is that it is easily accessible to most people of any age with the abity to access and use a computer or smart-phone. There are many moronic parents who let their minor children have unrestricted access to the internet via giving them smart phones and computers.
The same moronic parents let their minor children play violent video games and watch sleazy and violent TV shows and movies, not caring about the consequences because they are ignorant scumbags.
So if pornography is protected by the first amendment and is a victim-less thing, according to insane liberal progressives, then the ownership of firearms should not be restricted in any way and fully protected under the second amendment. After all, firearms are not hurting anyone on their own, irresponsible people are.
Your statements already reflect the status quo. So what are you arguing?
My argument against pornography isn't that it's decent and not obscene. Much of it is obscene, but it's still protected by the first amendment. My argument against it is most of it amounts to prostitution. Accordingly as long as the "actors" are not paid and the work is not sold, then it's okay. Selling pornography online falls under the commerce clause, you know the constitutional clause that has more lately been interpreted to allow the government to regulate just about everything under the sun where money changes hands.
It is worse than prostitution because it is publicly available to anyone with internet access, including children and adolescents. Prostitution takes effort and willful consent, something children and adolescents lack.
And yes i think all online pornography should be stopped.
My argument against pornography isn't that it's decent and not obscene. Much of it is obscene, but it's still protected by the first amendment. My argument against it is most of it amounts to prostitution. Accordingly as long as the "actors" are not paid and the work is not sold, then it's okay. Selling pornography online falls under the commerce clause, you know the constitutional clause that has more lately been interpreted to allow the government to regulate just about everything under the sun where money changes hands.
It is worse than prostitution because it is publicly available to anyone with internet access, including children and adolescents. Prostitution takes effort and willful consent, something children and adolescents lack.
And yes i think all online pornography should be stopped.
Nah. When I masturbate, I'm watching or reading porn. Nothing you can do about it.
Your statements already reflect the status quo. So what are you arguing?
I am arguing the insane double standard thinking of progressives who wish to interpret the constitution as they see fit and not how it was intended.
Free online access available to anyone with a computer and Internet access to online pornography is clearly UNCONSTITUTIONAL because it is clearly OBSCENE.
This is why many such desires (pot, opiates, booze, sex) are so large of a subject in our political lives.
I think it would be a hard sell to say that nudity or partial nudity or sex was not political speech. Heck, many consider theories that we came from Aliens or that the Moon Shot was staged to be main line political subjects.
The first amendment is supposed to protect freedom of speech but also protect the public from obscenity which means that obscene material is not protected by the first amendment.
The pornography industry has been given protection to peddle very obscene smut online apparently under the guise of being protected under the first amendment.
How can online pornography be considered decent and not obscene? Why is there no resistance on a large scale to the peddling of this depraved behavior?
To quote from the included link to a relevant article:
"The Supreme Court squarely confronted the obscenity question in Roth v. United States (1957), a case contesting the constitutionality of a federal law prohibiting the mailing of any material that is “obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy . . . or other publication of an indecent character.” The Court, in an opinion drafted by Justice William J. Brennan Jr., determined that “obscenity is not within the area of constitutionally protected speech or press.” He articulated a new test for obscenity: “whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to the prurient interest.”
If the public and population at large do not seem to have a problem with the problem of online porn which is being consumed rampantly by young adolescents because of their easy access to it then the population must be a very obscene, depraved and apathetic bunch indeed.
Obscene defined by whom?
Which porno movie is more gross than Quentin Tarantino's movies like Kill Bill, Planet Terror and Inglorious Bastard?
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