U.S. declares war on porn

[SirNitram]

Remember kids, it's better to do nothing to prevent the slide of the US towards Theocracy than it is to vote for them darn liberals. Doesn't matter what lengths the Republican party slithers to, voting liberal is evil.

Well said, my position in a nutshell. Now let me get back to drinking the blood of unwed single mothers from mugs hewn from the bones of their stillborn children.

(much belated congratulations on the upcoming wedding, BTW).

You should come out of this pit of scum and villainy more often, there's a big thread in OT about it.

[Glocksman]

This is simply insane.

I wouldn't tolerate this line of bullshit coming from a left wing feminist fanatic whining about 'exploitation of women', and I won't tolerate it from a right wing religious fanatic who thinks he has to supress it in the name of God, either.

The only redeeming characteristic Ashcroft has is his pro-2A sentiments. As far as the rest of it goes, he's a cross between Anthony Comstock and A. Mitchell Palmer

Herr bin-Ashcroft, I neither need nor want an arrogant asshole like you deciding what I can and cannot read. Kiss my ass.

[Darth Wong]

If you skip the presidential election, then you've got no business complaining if/when Bush gets reelected. You don't like Christian fundamentalism in the government? Then vote against it in November.

If you skip the presidential election, then you've got no business complaining if/when Bush gets reelected. You don't like Christian fundamentalism in the government? Then vote against it in November.

You're either with or us against us, eh? Where's the nuance, chief?

With Christian fundamentalist theocracy or against it, actually. And no, there's not much nuance there; the radical goals of the Big Brother movement remove subtle nuance from the equation.

[Xon]

Thankfully I live in Australia, where the government ignores the people, and the people ignore the government.

Where the leader of the opposition promises the troops in Iraq will be home by Christmas his approval rating takes a downturn.

And if the population really got pissed off, the Greens could get government or something crazy like that(Not a 2 party system, but heavily wieghted to favour to 2 primary parties)

[theski]

DVD player to edit movies
Technology allows viewer to bypass offensive content

Wal-Mart and Kmart, two of the nation's biggest retailers, are planning to sell a new DVD player that includes a technology that has riled Hollywood -- a controversial program that can automatically skip sexual content, graphically violent scenes and language deemed offensive.

The new DVD player, manufactured under the RCA brand by Thomson Inc.,

It is scheduled to be on shelves at Wal-Mart and Kmart in the next two months at a suggested price of $79,

The ClearPlay system uses a set of programmed commands tailored to about 500 individual movies released on DVD. Not all movies are available, and Aho said ClearPlay won't even try if filtering would ruin the film.

The commands tell the DVD player when to mute dialog or skip segments that show 14 levels of violence, sex, nudity and profanity. The user can pick which filters to activate

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f ... 61GFQ1.DTL


This ain't the Government here folks....

[Sharp-kun]

This ain't the Government here folks....

Meh, as long as it doesn't become compulsory I don't care. Let the fools miss out on sex.

[RedImperator]

DVD player to edit movies
Technology allows viewer to bypass offensive content

Wal-Mart and Kmart, two of the nation's biggest retailers, are planning to sell a new DVD player that includes a technology that has riled Hollywood -- a controversial program that can automatically skip sexual content, graphically violent scenes and language deemed offensive.

The new DVD player, manufactured under the RCA brand by Thomson Inc.,

It is scheduled to be on shelves at Wal-Mart and Kmart in the next two months at a suggested price of $79,

The ClearPlay system uses a set of programmed commands tailored to about 500 individual movies released on DVD. Not all movies are available, and Aho said ClearPlay won't even try if filtering would ruin the film.

The commands tell the DVD player when to mute dialog or skip segments that show 14 levels of violence, sex, nudity and profanity. The user can pick which filters to activate

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f ... 61GFQ1.DTL


This ain't the Government here folks....

Copyright issues aside, I'd much prefer the fundies censor what they watch in their own homes than use the United States government to censor what I watch in my home. If they're genuinely offended by that kind of stuff, fine, let them pay extra for a gizmo that will protect their immortal souls from R rated movies.

[Peregrin Toker]

This ain't the Government here folks....

Meh, as long as it doesn't become compulsory I don't care.

Do not give them ideas!

[russellb6666]

its stupdi pointless shit like this that makes me wanna move to some other country that isn't so fucking messed up, whats Cananda like this time of year anyway??