Ethical Pornography

Originally submitted by: barcode 2x

Pornography is spreading through the open-source entertainment world of the internet. The porn spammers are inventive and entirely reckless in their quest to expose us to inappropriate material. With the advent of YouPorn and other DIY (sorry for the pun) avenues, pornography is easier to create and distribute than ever before. When the Senate voted not to regulate the flow of content on the internet, we were simultaneously given huge freedom, and put at risk. We are free to seek and distribute materials, we are bound by nothing. The less ethical we are, the better, in this case. Anyone trying to get their blog read or their video seen can resort to all kinds of guerilla stunts to distribute it virally. The word viral should be a clue as to the nature of the business. Just because a product can be spread virally does not mean that it should be. And how long before it reaches young people? In a previous generation, young people had to work a lot harder to procure and hide pornographic material. Now they can search it, unregulated, in seconds. The Pornosphere is easily accessed, and parental controls only reach so far. And the creators of the material have to be trying very hard to get caught. They are, most often, acting within the bounds of the law, and it is the responsibility of the parent to control the youngster's access to the net. Pornography is, by its nature, on the ethical edge. From the way it is created to the way it is interpreted, porn is a corruptive element in our society. And because it is forbidden by social norms, it is made more desirable. I do not believe that porn should be outlawed or prosecuted. It has become a virus like any other that we are vulnerable to. The 2.0 world of technology is corrupted by millions, billions of pornographic messages. A galaxy of smut! Funny, to think that we live in a world where our inbox offers us numerous invitations for sex, drugs, etc, and we routinely delete them. Deleting pornography has become part of our daily ritual! The internet service provider that can eliminate the most spam will be the most popular in the years to come.