Is Pornography Free Speech or something else?

http://www.trafficcontrolthemovie.com Traffic Control, the movie is a full-length documentary about a new and controversial piece of legislation -- the Internet Channel Initiative (www.cp80.org), which has the potential to change the Internet as we know it. The documentary captures the general public's opinion on the Internet's evolution and the access it provides minors to pornographic material. This section of clips talks about the FREE SPEECH issues.

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[utopiapraxis]

"Censorship is a tool that can only be used to stop speech, to stop freedom of ideas."

OH OKAY, so we shouldn't censor the attempts of the elite to brainwash society and render us slaves.

TURN OFF YOUR TV. STOP FUNDING HOLLYWOOD AND PORN. STOP WASTING TIME ON MIND CONTROL POP MUSIC.

NONE OF IT IS ART. IT IS INTENTIONAL VIOLENCE. IT SHOULD BE CENSORED.

[utopiapraxis]

Kings use heroin for population control. They also use pornography.

[Lieu3C4]

1:36 What a load of bullshit, the implications of which are resonant as a tin can. Needless to say, the underlying hypocrisy of our society is most to blame in this regard, so far as exploitation of women by addiction and fear and the relegation of men by ridicule and no one near goes where with and by pornography it shows. Censorship of an intelligent species by an intelligent species for an intelligent species hardly constitutes good governance.

[EyeLean5280]

@annabrixthomsen - not all porn is the same. Claiming it is all "abuse and suffering" is disingenuous.

[EyeLean5280]

...As for actual children, it's pretty easy to keep them away from pornography. Just DON'T GIVE THEM THEIR OWN COMPUTERS! It's that simple. Keep a family computer in a common space, such as the dining room, and make sure you're around when they're using it for homework or entertainment. That's all.

[EyeLean5280]

People who wish to eradicate pornography claim they're protecting children, but the real effect would be to infantalize adults. Censorship subverts adult decision making and puts the public under the kind of authoritarian rule these crusaders probably experienced at the hands of their parents, where intimate decisions (eg: what images shall I consume?) are made for them by those in authority.

[tigerbaiter1]

No, pornography isn't free speech, because it isn't speech. Speech is words that communicate ideas, concepts and beliefs that are processed by the higher intellectual functions, pornography is visual stimulus that has the same effects that drugs do, and works on the non-speech part of the brain.

[TangoAlphaDelta]

@5:03 "it just keeps popping up and you can't help it"... lmfao.. that means two things!

[annabrixthomsen]

If you would not yourself accept the acts in porn to be done to you, to your body, if you would consider and experience it as abusive or painful, if you would do it as an only option of making money or getting positive attention - then how can you justify it being done to someone else as "freedom of speech"? - By claiming that freedom of speech being the most important aspect of our lives, we're tacitly justifying abuse and suffering - just because we have the "freedom" to be entertained by it.

[DanceswithUtube]

Pornography = HATE SPEECH

[hempbilly]

@utopiapraxis like you said turn off your tv but dont force someone else to do that