Traffic Control - Should Porn Get its Own Port? (hell, America)

[jonny]

Has anyone heard of the new documentary "Traffic Control?"

http://www.trafficcontrolthemovie.com/

Traffic Control is a feature-length, made-for-DVD documentary film that takes viewers on a journey of opinions, experiences, and perspectives from people across America on the topic of Internet pornography and how easy minors and business employees have access to it. The film captures a controversial and important debate around First Amendment rights, society’s obligation to protect children from unwanted and graphic Internet content, and an alternative solution called the Internet Community Port Act that could change the Internet as we know it.

What it boils down to is that there would be a community port (http://...) on the internet and an adult port (xxx://... or whatever) so that people who do not want access granted to adult websites in their home can filter them out completely. This is similar to the subscribing to the adult channels on cable or blocking them.

I support these types of tactics, but am not sure how they can be controlled. Websites are put up on the internet all the time and there would need to be people constantly checking or reviewing them.

What do you think?

[nutshell]

Originally Posted by jonny

Has anyone heard of the new documentary "Traffic Control?"

http://www.trafficcontrolthemovie.com/



What it boils down to is that there would be a community port (http://...) on the internet and an adult port (xxx://... or whatever) so that people who do not want access granted to adult websites in their home can filter them out completely. This is similar to the subscribing to the adult channels on cable or blocking them.

I support these types of tactics, but am not sure how they can be controlled. Websites are put up on the internet all the time and there would need to be people constantly checking or reviewing them.

What do you think?

The .xxx idea was already shot down so I don't see why xxx:// won't be shot down too.

[Sunstone]

How would "porn" be defined?

[nutshell]

Originally Posted by Sunstone

How would "porn" be defined?

According to the supreme court it can't be defined. It's a "I know it when I see it" kind of thing based on a particular community's opinion of obsenity.

That said, the issue you're implying doesn't exist, in my opinion, because porn sites often have to give the obligatory "you must be 18 to enter" bit. For purposes of an xxx port, websites that are required to have the "you must be 18 to enter" bit will get the xxx:\\.

[Sunstone]

Originally Posted by nutshell

According to the supreme court it can't be defined. It's a "I know it when I see it" kind of thing based on a particular community's opinion of obsenity.

That said, the issue you're implying doesn't exist, in my opinion, because porn sites often have to give the obligatory "you must be 18 to enter" bit. For purposes of an xxx port, websites that are required to have the "you must be 18 to enter" bit will get the xxx:\\.

My main concern is that porn would come to be defined as whatever offended some politician somewhere. Including any criticism of the politician. Stranger things have been known to happen.

[GeneCosta]

Also, there's no guarantee of completely blocking the sites that do comply to prefix laws . Kids could get around it just as easily as they could a porn extension.

[gmelrod]

IMHO the internet today serves a similar function in our society (or at least for my generation, im 23) to the roman forum, the town square, the cafes and salons of pais and other places of public gathering. Yes there are dangers, you could get picked up by a lusty senator or overdose on absinth but the benifits of free and open public discorse and display serve an important need. The more freely information moves the less susceptible people are to tyrrany. Parents have never been able to comptley cut off their kids access to porn, such sweeping changes will not work and will compromise the free spead of concepts and ideas on the net. If a kid wants to see boobs he could go to a plastic surgeons website. And what is a danger to kids today is not adult websites but the online chats where child predators lurk. The adult port will not fix this problem.

[Mike182]

Originally Posted by jonny

Has anyone heard of the new documentary "Traffic Control?"

http://www.trafficcontrolthemovie.com/



What it boils down to is that there would be a community port (http://...) on the internet and an adult port (xxx://... or whatever) so that people who do not want access granted to adult websites in their home can filter them out completely. This is similar to the subscribing to the adult channels on cable or blocking them.

I support these types of tactics, but am not sure how they can be controlled. Websites are put up on the internet all the time and there would need to be people constantly checking or reviewing them.

What do you think?

impossible to police.... people and employers should just buy decent internet filters.