Rating system urged for adult Internet content

[imalickin]

Thu Jan 19, 6:15 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An influential U.S. Senator warned the adult entertainment industry on Thursday that if it does not develop a rating system for its Internet content, Congress will.

"My advice to your clients is that you better do it soon or we will mandate it if you don't," Republican Sen. Ted Stevens (news, bio, voting record) of Alaska, chairman of the Commerce Committee, told Paul Cambria, general counsel to the Adult Freedom Foundation.

Cambria told the committee hearing that it was the first time his group had been invited to testify before Congress on the issue and he would take the message back to his clients.

"I take that as a message and mandate to my clients that we should do that," Cambria said. "I might welcome a shot across the bow rather than one between the eyes."

Tim Lordan, executive director of the Internet Education Foundation, said about 75 percent of Internet pornography comes from overseas, beyond the reach of U.S. laws. He said parents play a crucial role in keeping unwanted material away from their children and that a rating system would help.

James Burrus of the FBI, illustrating how pervasive the problem is, said that a word search on "pornography" produced 19 million results.

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Laura Parsky said law enforcement is using increasingly sophisticated techniques, including following the path of financial transactions, to crack down on child pornography. Younger children are being abused and the images are becoming more disturbing, she said.

"In the past several years, the children we have seen in these images have been younger and younger, and, very regrettably, the abuse depicted has been increasingly more severe and is often sadistic," she said.

She declined to comment on a Justice Department subpoena of Google Inc., saying she could not talk about ongoing investigations. The department is seeking documents as part of the agency's probe of Internet pornography and the company rejected the demand as overreaching by the government.

 

[rgraham666]

Rep. Stevens. Take your meds.

And why is it that the bluenoses can never use the word 'pornography' without using the word 'child' as well?

 

[Guest]

Rep. Stevens. Take your meds.

And why is it that the bluenoses can never use the word 'pornography' without using the word 'child' as well?

They will not rest until they've removed all the joy from every sexual act.

I imagine this all began when women discovered they could have orgasms.

 

[blackhaus7]

They will not rest until they've removed all the joy from every sexual act.

I imagine this all began when women discovered they could have orgasms.

Women can have orgasms???!!!

When were they allowed to have those?????!!!!



















Sometimes I can be such a shit.

 

[sophia jane]

They will not rest until they've removed all the joy from every sexual act.

I imagine this all began when women discovered they could have orgasms.

You should add "by themselves" to that statement, Sarah.

Can I just ask what good a rating system would do for internet content? They already have parental blocks that can be used for kids. And adult sites already have disclaimers, etc. What good would ratings be?

 

[Guest]

You should "by themselves" to that statement, Sarah.

Can I just ask what good a rating system would do for internet content? They already have parental blocks that can be used for kids. And adult sites already have disclaimers, etc. What good would ratings be?

Quite.

The porn industry attempts to censor itself, ever mindful of the Puritanistic assholes.

 

[Guest]

Women can have orgasms???!!!

When were they allowed to have those?????!!!!




Sometimes I can be such a shit.

Yes, indeed.

Wait a minute - didn't your wife's massage work out?

I figured you'd be getting seriously laid about now.

 

[imalickin]

You should "by themselves" to that statement, Sarah.

Can I just ask what good a rating system would do for internet content? They already have parental blocks that can be used for kids. And adult sites already have disclaimers, etc. What good would ratings be?

you got me. just a bunch of chuckleheads beating their chests for attention.

 

[Weird Harold]

James Burrus of the FBI, illustrating how pervasive the problem is, said that a word search on "pornography" produced 19 million results.

I imagine that at least 18 million of those results were from people discussing how rampant pornography is rather than pornography itself.

This thread will make the total 19 million and one, for example.

 

[JamesSD]

You should add "by themselves" to that statement, Sarah.

Can I just ask what good a rating system would do for internet content? They already have parental blocks that can be used for kids. And adult sites already have disclaimers, etc. What good would ratings be?

Wouldn't this be like adult films? Where sites would actually want MORE Xs to prove they're more adult/extreme?

I dunno, to me this is laughable. I have no problem with adult sites being rated "adults only" or even separating soft nudity from hardcore fucking.

 

[Guest]

I imagine that at least 18 million of those results were from people discussing how rampant pornography is rather than pornography itself.

This thread will make the total 19 million and one, for example.

Pornography.

(19 million and two)

 

[shereads]

I wonder how a ratings system is supposed to stop child pornography. Maybe they expect pedophiles to rate their sites "CP." Yes, that could work.

Regarding the Google subpoena, which is supposed to help prove that content filters can't effectively protect kids from viewing porn:

Isn't that what parents are for?

When my nephew managed to find some porn sites, despite an assortment of content filters, his parents came up with a bizarre new solution: they took his computer away. He's allowed to use one in the family room, but one of his parents has to log on for him. (They deleted his password.) When he's online now, the monitor is visible from anywhere in the family room, the kitchen, the door of his dad's office, and a hallway.
Problem solved.

Too bad, kid. No porn for you; more for us grown-ups. As it should be.

 

[shereads]

Pornography.

(19 million and two)

Sex with miners.

 

[shereads]

Women can have orgasms???!!!

When were they allowed to have those?????!!!!

It's been in all the newspapers. Where were you?

 

[shereads]

James Burrus of the FBI, illustrating how pervasive the problem is, said that a word search on "pornography" produced 19 million results.

Yes, but how many of those were quality porn sites?

 

[rgraham666]

It just occurred to me the reason for the rating system.

It's painting a big bulls eye on porn sites.

Next time the bluenoses go on the warpath they won't have to actually look at any porn sites. They can just ask a search engine for 'Rating of type Y'.

Bingo! Instant jihad.

Rather like asking gays and lesbians to put the pink triangle on.

 

[oggbashan]

The internet is worldwide

The Senator has fallen into the same trap that the Chinese government has.

No single government can control the internet because it is universal. All that the US government can do is force internet providers to move outside the US to countries that do not have draconian laws about content.

At worst, internet content could be uploaded to a satellite from a vessel in international waters.

The 'worst' in terms of 'calculated to corrupt and deprave' internet content in Europe comes from countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain where government controls are weakest. Some people will do almost anything to earn dollars.

Og

 

[Liar]

James Burrus of the FBI, illustrating how pervasive the problem is, said that a word search on "pornography" produced 19 million results.

Does many porn sites contain that word? Isn't it usually other search words people use to find smut, like "Soccer Moms in Heat" and "Sexy, Slutty Senators"?

 

[impressive]

Does many porn sites contain that word? Isn't it usually other search words people use to find smut, like "Soccer Moms in Heat" and "Sexy, Slutty Senators"?

I just HAD to Google for "sexy, slutty senators" after that.

 

[fingermagic]

They will not rest until they've removed all the joy from every sexual act.

I imagine this all began when women discovered they could have orgasms.

I agree. There is something about being in politics that makes you want to suck the joy out of something as lovely as sex and go to other countries and kill people with the armies you command. Liberal on the violent stuff and keep the loving and pleasure in the closet.

 

[Guest]

Honestly, this entire thing scares the piss out of me. Yet another choke hold. I thought that we were supposed to be the 'land of the free'. Everything I was taught in grammar school was a load of shit..doesn't it piss you off a bit? ok, so maybe thats a bit harsh seeing as I went along with the whole Santa deal for my kids.
I blame this whole situation



on chapstick.

 

[Liar]

I just HAD to Google for "sexy, slutty senators" after that.

Found anything?

Do I want to know?

 

[impressive]

Found anything?

Do I want to know?

Only sites which put every imaginable tag in their meta data to snag those Googling.

 

[zeb1094]

And here I thought all the porno sites were already rated!

I mean they aren't called porno sites because they have pictures or trees or birds or information on the expansion of man over the face of the earth.

Porno is porno, are they now going to break it down into good porno, not too bad porno, bad porno, horrible porno? Then there is the porno that nobody wants to see but the government?

I mean, geez someone needs to wack someone upside the head with a 2 by 4.

 

[R. Richard]

The real solution here is to let the government rate porno sites. HOWEVER, the ratings would have to be based upon specific, measurable criteria. Anyone who would attempt such ratings is insane. A few comittments of government people to laughing academies would cut down on the size of government and save the taxpayers money.