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I am all for the first amendment right of free speech, but sometimes you have to draw the line at what is decent and is just plain filth.
1 posted on 06/29/2004 3:39:00 PM PDT by dixie sass
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prove they are adults.

how do you do that online?

2 posted on 06/29/2004 3:43:25 PM PDT by Graybeard58
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Smutty words are speech, but pictures? Not in my opinion. That's like saying you can't require people to wear clothes in public because of free speech. I mean...just because the nudity is on paper and words can sometimes be on paper (or computer monitors), doesn't make nudity on paper (or screens) speech. That's an invalid argument. Why do we have such a stupid Supreme Court?


3 posted on 06/29/2004 3:46:35 PM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: Jim Robinson; Bob J; diotima; Nick Danger; Interesting Times; Libertina; MinuteGal; NautiNurse; ...

pass it on.


5 posted on 06/29/2004 3:47:20 PM PDT by dixie sass ( Claws are sharp and ready for use!)
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Maybe its just me but I always considered "free speech" to mean the right to criticise the Goverment, for example.

Somehow I don't think pictures of people having sex is quite what the Founding Fathers had in mind.


8 posted on 06/29/2004 3:56:40 PM PDT by Trampled by Lambs ("Making Al Gore regret inventing the internet, one post at a time")
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Another Clinton Law stuck down by the Supreme Court.


11 posted on 06/29/2004 4:00:50 PM PDT by pete anderson
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So how does this match up with the Courts ruling on Campaign Finance Reform (the central point of the free speech clause of the First Amendment)?
13 posted on 06/29/2004 4:36:12 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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The problem is not just MY child veiwing porn, it's the neighbor child. Like violence on tv, MY child becomes victim of someone else's problem.


15 posted on 06/29/2004 5:02:39 PM PDT by eccentric (aka baldwidow)
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It's time to fire the entire Supreme Court and ammend the Constitution to impose term limits on the "Justices'" tenures. Attorneys are self serving and corrupt by nature and should never be given such resposibility and absolute power.


16 posted on 06/29/2004 5:07:05 PM PDT by Birdsbane
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I am all for the first amendment right of free speech, but sometimes you have to draw the line at what is decent and is just plain filth.

I'm thinking that it shouldn't be an issue of "free speech."

No one is telling these pornographers that they can't sell, "express", ect...their filth. Just not to kids. That's why they call it "adult language," "adult behavior."

Just as a liquor store owner can't sell to minors, he can control who he sells to. The porno pirates don't care, they can't regulate just who looks at their trash online. As long as it gets seen.

Sick.

17 posted on 06/29/2004 5:29:43 PM PDT by kstewskis ("kstewskis has the best desktop and screensaver in cyberspace..." Mel Gibson)
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