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To: Jorj X Mckie who wrote (477342)	3/18/2012 3:42:29 PM
From: greenspirit	Respond to of 793964

I appreciate you answering a question directly. I'll try and do the same, although I may not give a clear yes or no statement. Do you disagree with this? Do you believe that community standards should have any place in the privacy of someone's home? Community standards have a place in every home, it just depends on how you define and discuss them in detail. For instance, building codes (or lack thereof) effect no one but your family, The laws exist, because a majority of people believe the indirect cost to society is high. The same is true regarding growing pot, or building a private meth lab, or opening a business in a residential only zone. Around the world, some cultures see nothing wrong with child pornography, yet in America we specify what people can and cannot view in the privacy of their home in detail and arrest people who break the law. Some people view the delivery of adult porn to private homes as encouraging profits to an industry, which promotes the exploitation of young women and treats them with contempt. So the privacy of your home, can have an indirect effect on the lives of thousands of woman who find no other way of providing for themselves, or who are encouraged to make unwise decisions when they're young, only to be exploited by people viewing them for the rest of their life with no way of preventing the viral effect. Bottom line is straight forward positions are hard to come by when one examines the various sides of this issue. All I know is, the rapid development of the internet and the wild wild west proliferation of porn, makes it awfully difficult for parents to provide common sense boundaries and safeguards for children. I think the lack of action by the government to regulate porn with common sense filtering mechanisms has not been a good thing for our culture. A .xxx extension to the web, would still provide access for adults, while making filtering tools easier to manage. It's also easy for adults who don't have children to simply say "change the channel" or "just monitor your children". The truth is; with phones connected and internet terminals literally everywhere, you cannot prevent your kids from the scum that is so pervasive on the internet these days. You can try, and of course I do better than most because I'm technically savy, but for most parents, it's nearly impossible, so they hide their head in the sand and pretend the kids are not being exposed. The Larry Flynt cultural visionaries have won.