Internet Porn hearings live on CNN Pipeline

[collegeboyslive]

Fact is, American politicians are powerless in this issue and they know it. You could eliminate every single American site, and the majority still exist from elsewhere in the world... But admitting that doesn't get you votes.

I think they wouldnt be emliminated, if they are profitable , companies would just move them to other countries, after all to a surfer , they dont care if the site is coming from the USA, england or the netherlands, its still the same site at the end of the day, and with visa and mastercard being world wide....

and I though we had a type of rating systems anyway, i know I put code in my fron and top pages way back which the net nannies and other kid protectors would pick up and act on .

[Marc]

I watched it on CNN and I thought it went great.
Here are my impressions

- I thought the senators were kindly to Paul Cambria. I know the chairman got stern when insisting on a ratings system, but it wasn't directed at Paul it was directed at the industry.

They easily could have come down on him to make some soundbites for the evening news if they wanted to but in the beginning the chairman was kind and said that Cambria had been waiting patiently, and at the end they said they especially wanted to thank Cambria for being there. To me that means they dont have hostility towards the group he represents.

- They pretty much acknowledged that porn is here to stay and that adults want to buy it. There was no talk on stopping porn. And there some talk about how you can try to curb American webmasters, but theres nothing you can do against the foreign webmasters.

- Absolutely no mention on gay porn or anything about men. They talked about how porn makes women look like sex objects and gives an unrealistic portrayal of women.
No mention of men or gay-anything.
But I think gay porn webmasters are very responsible when it comes to our sites. We dont spam or do spyware, we just have our sites and people have to look to US in order to find us. We dont go out of bounds to pull surfers in.

I also think that because these senators are straight they just cant relate to gay porn, and probably dont want to stir the pot in the gay community because they know we'll scream louder than anyone if you try and take our rights away, so they dont want to touch it. : )

- Cambria talked about how adult content is free speech and it is legal and protected speech. Senator Allen said theyre not interested in curbing free speech, only stopping young people from accessing it.

To me this is a big deal. It says that the government is fully aware there is adult content on the internet and doesnt want to stop adults from accessing legal adult content. The govt only wants to prevent minors from being involved in any form, which anyone who works in adult wants to prevent also.

I thought it was pretty positive.
To me it means if you have an adult site with adult models thats pretty vanilla and not obscene, and you have the records of your models and reasonable barriers to prevent minors from accessing, and doesn't spam then you can just do your thing.