Reply #232: i am for free speech without leaving it to you or our govt-god forbid- [View All]

[bettyellen]

to determine the difference between people retelling their true life experiences or writing fiction or what have you. the "promoting" judgement is worrisome and leads to the slippery slope you've heard of before no doubt, but does not seem to concern you.
there has been too much book burning in the history of this country- too much thought control for me to be comfortable going down that road.
and your subject line makes no sense at all. i'm helping the right wing how? wtf?
i'm sorry, you want to confuse the issue. you do not make a distinction between images and words, and i think it's a damned important one. free speech isn't going to hinder the prosecution of people who promote child prostitution or porno because it's already illegal, and if they are actually promoting or facillitating they can be arrested. we already have laws on the books. we don't need them against writing about illegal activity too, and that's an important distinction to make. so how does your wish for increased censorship help at all? it's a placebo. and a dangerous one.
and as far as the consenting adult/ porn laws go, there are no clear cut standards. people who sell the stuff basically have no guidelines as to what is okay except in states where certain items are prohibited. most areas are covered by community standards, which means somebody has to be offended and take you to court, and they can, even if the rest of commmunity is fine with it. so someone selling an erotic product is always on shaky ground, and this is why he says he can go to jail any day now, sincethe govt refuses to draw any guidelines as to what's okay.