Do you favor more or less government control on the internet?

Question

Keep in mind- more control could one day lead to an online voting system.

Answer 1

Less government control. What is portrayed on the Internet definitely comes under the Freedom of Speech part of the Constitution. People do have to exercise common sense in determining what to believe or not, but go right ahead and say what you want on the 'net as long as you subscribe to existing laws on libel and fraud, etc.

Online voting is a long way from being a nationwide standard. Don't worry about it interfering with freedom on the internet just yet.

Answer 2

Less government control in all aspects of our lives!

Answer 3

Which government gets to control this international database of information?

Answer 4

Less - We can figure out a secure way to vote online if need be.

Answer 5

less. And an Online voting system can be fixed more easily.

Answer 6

Less in the aggregate but they need to keep doing what they're doing to stop solicitation of minors.

Answer 7

Less .
The remark about porn sure is uptight..Porn is fine as long as it isn't children depicted in it.

Answer 8

The government has no business WHATSOEVER regulating or interfering with the flow of information online in any way.

Except porn. Porn should be blocked in every computer as some sort of default system.
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And for the poster who thinks my "porn comment was uptight" I suggest you do a little research on Violence Against Women Relating to Porn. Google it, I dare you:

“Bundy told Dobson about the influence of pornography on his behavior.

Bundy said he began casually reading soft-core pornography when he was 12 or 13 years old. His friends found pornographic books in the garbage cans in his neighborhood: "(F)rom time to time we would come across pornographic books of a harder nature ... a more graphic, explicit nature than we would encounter at the local grocery store," he told Dobson in the taped interview. "But slowly throughout the years reading pornography began to become a deadly habit.

"My experience with pornography ... is once you become addicted to it, (and I look at this as a kind of addiction like other kinds of addiction), I would keep looking for more potent, more explicit, more graphic kinds of material. Like an addiction, you keep craving something that is harder, something which gives you a greater sense of excitement. Until you reach a point where the pornography only goes so far, you reach that jumping off point where you begin to wonder if maybe actually doing it would give you that which is beyond just reading or looking at it."

Within a few years, those latent desires fueled by pornography were expressed through his first murder. Although Bundy said he did not blame pornography, he explained that pornographic materials shaped and molded his behavior. He also warned the nation that "the most damaging kinds of pornography ... are those that involve violence and sexual violence. Because the wedding of those two forces, as I know only too well, brings out the hatred that is just, just too terrible to describe."

Bundy said that pornography "snatched me out of my home 20, 30 years ago ... and pornography can reach out and snatch a kid out of any house today." His religious training and morality initially restrained him from acting out his fantasies, but he confessed that finally, "I couldn't hold back anymore."

Bundy's last words of confession and warning about pornography are an echo of statistics, research, and reports conducted within the last decade about the link between pornography and sexually violent crime. Unfortunately, many of the warnings in those reports still have not been heeded, and pornography has been taken for granted or considered a necessary evil.

According to a study conducted by a group of psychologists, Neil Malamuth of UCLA, Gene Abel of Columbia University, and William Marshall of Kingston Penitentiary, various forms of pornography can elicit fantasies which may lead to crime. Out of a test group of 18 rapists studied who used 'consenting pornography' to instigate a sexual offence, seven of them said that it provided a cue to elicit fantasies of forced sex.

A study released by the University of New Hampshire has proven that the states which have the highest readership of pornographic magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse also have the highest rape rates. The Michigan State Police department found that pornography is used or imitated in 41 percent of the sex crimes they have investigated.

The Free Congress Research and Education Foundation discovered that half of all rapists studied used soft core pornography to arouse themselves prior to seeking out a victim. Although researchers and media analysts may ballyhoo the impact of soft core pornography - claiming protection under the free speech provision of the Constitution - mounting evidence seems to be favoring a national crackdown on porn as a necessary means to stop crime.

In recent years, as more of this type of research has been published, significant gains have been made against pornographers as major retailers have removed porn from their shelves. Ted Bundy's confessions to Dr. James Dobson - a leader of the largest segment of pro-family forces in the U.S. - promises to fuel the nationwide efforts being made on the state and local levels to eliminate the pornography problem.”


http://forerunner.com/forerunner/X0332_Ted_Bundy.html


LET ME REPEAT THAT:
"states which have the highest readership of pornographic magazines such as Playboy and Penthouse also have the highest rape rates"

How hilarious that all you pigs are giving the thumbs down for me posting statistics on the RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PORN AND CRIME AGAINST WOMEN.