Dear Senator Reed,
I think the ACLU posed my thoughts most eloquently:
"The ACLU's vision of an uncensored Internet was clearly shared by the U.S. Supreme Court when it struck down the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA), a federal law that outlawed "indecent" communications online. Ruling unanimously in Reno v. ACLU, the Court declared the Internet to be a free speech zone, deserving of at least as much First Amendment protection as that afforded to books, newspapers and magazines. The government, the Court said, can no more restrict a person's access to words or images on the Internet than it could be allowed to snatch a book out of a reader's hands in the library, or cover over a statue of a nude in a museum.
The importance of the Internet as the "the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed," requires that the courts perpetually uphold the freedom of speech."
The attempted expansion of the definition of obscenity, and the sad misappropriation of resources being used in a feeble (and offensive) attempt to "clean up" the Internet by the FBI and the Attorney General go against everything I believe in, and I sincerely hope that as my representative in this matter you will do everything in your power to refocus the government's energy to more pressing matters (like the protection of our environment) and away from childish things like this that infringe on my civil liberties.
Done and done. Don't be messin' with my porno.
I think the ACLU posed my thoughts most eloquently:
"The ACLU's vision of an uncensored Internet was clearly shared by the U.S. Supreme Court when it struck down the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA), a federal law that outlawed "indecent" communications online. Ruling unanimously in Reno v. ACLU, the Court declared the Internet to be a free speech zone, deserving of at least as much First Amendment protection as that afforded to books, newspapers and magazines. The government, the Court said, can no more restrict a person's access to words or images on the Internet than it could be allowed to snatch a book out of a reader's hands in the library, or cover over a statue of a nude in a museum.
The importance of the Internet as the "the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed," requires that the courts perpetually uphold the freedom of speech."
The attempted expansion of the definition of obscenity, and the sad misappropriation of resources being used in a feeble (and offensive) attempt to "clean up" the Internet by the FBI and the Attorney General go against everything I believe in, and I sincerely hope that as my representative in this matter you will do everything in your power to refocus the government's energy to more pressing matters (like the protection of our environment) and away from childish things like this that infringe on my civil liberties.
Done and done. Don't be messin' with my porno.
i am so utterly pissed about this whole thing...my favorites have been censored...they're saying what i fantasize is obscene (well the stuff with women was already obscene to them) it's ridiculous.
i have the feeling that this is just a bunch of conservatives who secretly love this stuff but then have to take it away from everyone because they don't want others to have it cause they're so scared of god hating them that they have to hide it all away and punish others while they themselves would partake of this and do, being paid to look for it.
their actions are obscene, not the images.