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The Funny Side of Porn Censorship

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His last question is:

Will this blocking actually block anything? Here are the expected scenarios:

SELF SUFFICIENCY SCENARIO
Who needs porn sites when young men and women can shoot their own homemade movies and exchange them via emails and phones?

TECHNOLOGICAL PRODIGY SCENARIO
Tech-savvy geeks will find a breach in the ban ... what are proxy servers made for?

THE REAL DEAL SCENARIO
Who wants porn when they can get real prostitutes?

OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE OPPRESSION SCENARIO
Just banning the sites will give people a false sense of oppression - another blow at freedom of choice.

SEXUAL OBSESSION SCENARIO
If sex is a taboo, banning these sights will make it a much bigger taboo and taboos lead to perversion.

ANOTHER SCENARIO WORTH CONSIDERING
I am positive that hundreds of blogs will be banned under the assumption that they contain obscene pictures.
 

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