MightyMo

don’t look at me…

mightymo — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 19:17:17 +0000

I can’t believe that privacy is not a right! After watching those lectures I will now think twice about where I stay. It really suprises me that there are not more cases about people who violate others privacy. I guess this is because privacy is not easily definited much like pornography. The more I think about it the more that this is probably the reason there are not as many lawsuits, because when someone realizes that they have been violated its lewd or obscene in which they can be charged for that. This topic is so complicated for what seems to be a simple concept. So how do you know if you privacy is broken? I think of privacy and pornography all the time when we talk about putting internet filters on computers, becauses if you want a system to show what your children are looking at then there is no way they are going to stop tracking what you are looking at? How far does your privacy go? If the government gets all these people for looking at child pornography then they are watching what you are looking at? So do you even have any privacy on the Internet?

talk to your kids.. please..

mightymo — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:09:51 +0000

After reading the article for this week, I agree with the different points that were made, I think that protecting children on the Internet is important, but it cannot be left up to one person or one way to solve the problem. The interaction of both partents, and government regulations should provide a more effective way with dealing with this issue. Parents talking to thier children about what they are looking for when they are online and what they might expect when they are searching the internet is very important to the safety of the child. No parent would leave their seven year old alone in New York City telling them feel free to look and go where you please, the inthernet is the same thing. It’s a world within itself. There is no knowing what you will experience when you get out there.
The website for this week on website regulations I think is a great idea, why not use them its not taking away from who is looking at the information its just informing the viewer of what they are about to see. This works with movies, nobody is saying that kids don’t get into R rated films, but if they do they know there are consequense to their actions. This fear of what will happen if the parents find out that might keep some kids from being on these type of sites to start with. The more parental interaction the more kids will know, if I could openly talk to my parents about a topic why would I sneak and look it up knowing that I might get into trouble. If your parents are open to talking about things why would you need to go to these sites.

I showed her my #### and went to jail…

mightymo — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 19:01:59 +0000

After reading this week, and searching the net, and watching lectures I still have a question about child pornography. Is it still child pornography if two six year old are exchanging pictures or dirty talk on the internet? Other can get at this material, and neither one is sure the other is six years old, would this be porno? Or what if 6 year olds have sex, not porno? But if it was taped and sold would it be porn? Is this because there are adults that are involved? I am unsure about where the line would be crossed here, are they experimental children or are they unknowingly commiting a crime? Now days with children having open use to the Internet and they are very smart at using the different features on computers children can easily make videos and send them online, and who knows what little kids can get into when they are in the ages where they don’t understand how things work, or just interested in what others look like?

other sex blogs

mightymo — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 16:19:40 +0000

{ http://blacknbluebamboo.blogspot.com/ } Is one of the blogs that I went on looking for what other write about sex online. This is a sex site but what I found interesting was not the content, which it is a fetish site talks about all the different things that each person does but what comments are made. To me the comments that were made by others made this really like a little community that we talked about in class. These people are sharing things with others that normally you wouldn’t. In turn each comment is welcoming and they talk like they know each other, they is no judgment about what each is doing, they are supportive and offer advice to each other to make their sexual adventures more exciting and better! There were other sites that I visited that seemed to be more of a joke, just posting pictures and having other make lewd comments on what was seen, but this site seemed to be more real and the people talked like they knew each other. Discussions were open and detailed but in some was respected of not pressing for more, or making it seem dirty. I guess after seeing this site I better understand that sexual fetishes are not harmful and I better understand what was being talked about when Internet communities can be built on common interests unlike in every day life.

Mr. Lucas Questions…

mightymo — Wed, 19 Apr 2006 15:45:30 +0000

In the article Mr. Lucas talks about “gay porn serves as a necessary outlet” for fantasy. But in the same article he talks about how there is no healthy gay media, and on the blog he talks many times about gay media and hypocrisy. So I guess I would have to question why gay porno is the way to express their fantasies? Unless he is only talking about the entertainment in which is he is producing? But much like straight porn he is just one site that is good and positive and many more that are negative. Supporting that porno should be used as an outlet, can it still be done looking at gay pornography as a whole?

On the blog there are many entries that involve the Danish cartoons and the Muslim violence, and many of the comments that are made are opinions of Mr. Lucas. This semester I took Terror and Terrorism at UB and we talked with much detail about these cartoons, and in combination with this class these entries are a little irratating.
Understandably everyone has their own opinions and that’s great, but when Mr. Lucas talks about how the muslims should not stand up for that they believe in and the violence that is caused because someone disrepected them I this is hypocritical. If Muslims should sit back and go main stream and not react to these comments, then my should homosexuals not set back and not fight for their cause? If anything means that much to you, you will fight for it, how can you not? I guess my question would be how can you justify this? The cause are different, but both are groups that are oppressed in ways that they should be free, should be able to express themselves without having judgement against them? How can this be correct for one but not for the other?

I wanna be a kid for just a little bit longer…

mightymo — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:34:30 +0000

In the article that was assigned as reading this week, there was an excerpt from the James Gleick article that talks about obscenity being what isn’t liked by the community, using rules from the Miller Test, but not in the idea of Internet Porn. He talked about violence and guns and when average community people are reading magazines and newspapers things that are being reported can also be seen as obscene, but that is allowed. I think information and the way that may violent crimes get so much attention makes people become copy cats and repeat the offense. Addressing this is as important as addressing the illegal issues of child pornography. The article talks about how to stop child pornography, as does the congressional hearing where the senators talk about the Bluebook or book of child pornography which is the described as the most disturbing and messed up things that looked more like child abuse. The Congressional hearing seems optimistic about having enough funding and ways to attack the war on child pornography. The main thing that seemed to be problematic for stopping child from seeing porno on the Internet and Internet porno is that many times it is made overseas.
Many of the pornography services are offered from overseas and without treaties with other countries there is no way to stop or tame these actions. The Congressional hearing talks about overseas treaties that are being worked on to curb child pornography. There are many different issues that have to be addressed in order to lessen the ways that pornography is available. There is no way of banning pornography without killing the Internet as talked about in this weeks reading, but there are ways of safe guarding against children being able to get a hold of these material. There must be better regulations and controls other than trust that only adults are entering the sites.
All these different things need to be addressed to save and protect the rights of adults all the while protecting the innocence and specialness of childhood that should not be taken away from children through the Internet and pornography.

OH no you didn’t place the porn shop next to the school…

mightymo — Sat, 15 Apr 2006 00:10:56 +0000

Indecency, the child of obsenity. In this lecture I was suprised that zoning laws cannot be used to keep businesses out of areas that do not want them. I think that there should be rules against putting a porn shop next to a school, there is something wrong with that. School is where children are forced to go, Porn shops might be a problem because of the people that are drawn to it, this might place children in danger. This is different than a bar or other establishment that might be open more at night than durning the day. Zoning should be used to keep people safe. The risks with many children in one place vs. having a porn shop next to your house is different, there are less people effected and what are the changes that something bad is going to happend. Time, place and mannor are all issues that are talked about in both the lecture, congressional hearing and also in the reading. This is important because of first amendment rights. Free speech of the first amendment is important, it is like zoning where its written in the rules that it can’t be taken away. Limiting adults to only expressions of interest that are legal to only the levels that are okay for children is withholding thier first amendment rights.

oops. Don’t take away my rights…

mightymo — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:27:28 +0000

Limitation of my rights is not what I want. I don’t think that first amendment rights should be compromised because of free expression. Are there people getting hurt because of the display? If so there should be legal action against that, for example rape in pornography, why not forget about attacking that it is pornography and look at it as a violent crime. Art that has naked people in it, or sexual thought can’t harm people. Paintings don’t have sex or rape each other. Maybe I would be more understanding as to why all these laws and rules against obsenity weren’t so vague. Anything can be obscene, I was thinking about that when writing this blog, we are all obscene just for writing about sexual topics and taking a class that talks about porn. We live in a nation that is aging and the standards of many different communities would be against this class. I know i am from a small town and this class would raise hell and high water because of the content, should I not engage in this activity because those are the community standards that I still live with? Miller would save this class I guess by using the SLAPS test to say that there is meaning that we are getting out of taking this class therefore we should not be considered to obscene.
Variable obsenity doesn’t make sense just because children can’t watch it or engage in it as an adult I can’t. In our culture when turning 18 may people go out and buy pornography just because they legally can. My brother just turned 18 and this was a big thing for him and his friends, not so much for the porn but because this allowed them to embrace becoming more of an adult. Society has placed such a bad spin of porn that even out rights are being challenged, In cultures that are more open about nudity and sexuality, I bet there aren’t as many issues, their children aren’t damaged maybe society is the problem.

rules that don’t rule…

mightymo — Mon, 10 Apr 2006 23:25:08 +0000

Lectures 25,26,and 27 cover different aspects of obsenity and the laws that surround it over the course of time in America. There are many different court cases talked about, all that have different rulings on material that is thought to obscene by someone. To make rulings on what is obscene and what is not use test like Hickin rule, to validate the Comstock Law(1873) The Hickin rule is when materials that can “deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences and into whose hands it might fall.” This is not very structured , and I am not sure that it really defines what they are looking for. These open minds can belong to anyone, and there is no way of knowing who has mental issues and will talk your expression as obscene even if it is not intended to be that way. There should be more limitations and explanations as to who needs to protected and what are the limits to what is obscene.
If you do not know what the laws are or you do not interpret the laws the same way because they are so vague then you are liable to not produce materials that might be considered to be inapproiate. I think that more than anything prosecuting people for obsenity in examples like throughout the mail, for sending things to other states, and for art displays really is to scare other people into not doing it because they will be unsure if they are within these sliding values of obsenity.
The Miller Test when I first looked at it seemed to be a better representation of rules for obsenity that are more realistic and better defined. After watching the lectures I found that the Miller Test is really just a better view of the Roth-Memoirs. Miller Test does go into more detail about standards that have to be met, but in the same breath they are community standards. So now you have to know the laws, and community standards and what the average person thinks about these values. And after that if you still have time to produce somethings that is obscene its probably out of anger for the system.

Top three blogs

mightymo — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 18:19:08 +0000

Barizzo is my top blog, because it is insightful, the content and information is always presented clearly and well thoughtout.

Vanessa’s Ideas on Porn- its a good blog because it is bold but does not pressure thoughts and ideas on others. Always well layed out and interesting.

Way 2 Much- a blog that I read because of different view point from what seems to the majority of the class, great points that extends many years of information into may good argruments.