Sfmike64 Posted February 7, 2023 Report Share Posted February 7, 2023 On 1/4/2023 at 11:35 PM, Close2MyBro said: The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) was the first attempt at regulating internet porn - signed by none other than Bill Clinton. If you're going to blame someone, go back far enough to find out who the true culprit really is. Much of the CDA was struck down as unconstitutional and was supported by both parties (you're likely too young to remember this, I was in my early 30s). The case was Reno v ACLU, 1997. The name refers to Janet Reno, who was the Attorney General then and was defending the law (as was her job). Congress was trying to regulate something very new and different using frameworks from the previous decades that didn't really work for online content, even in its 1990s infancy. They didn't really know what they were doing. They mostly still don't. So the answer to "who was the culprit" was EVERYONE. Quite literally all of the people running the country. It was passed with bipartisan majorities in both houses of Congress. It's simplistic and absurd to blame one party or the other. A discussion of Reno: [think before following links] https://mtsu.edu/first-amendment/article/531/reno-v-american-civil-liberties-union But I don't know how you can support Republicans who literally want us all dead. Good luck with that. I have a rule that I don't ever sleep with Republicans. I would urge everyone else here to do the same. No one is hot enough for that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErosWired Posted February 8, 2023 Report Share Posted February 8, 2023 14 hours ago, hntnhole said: Of course it is. Our universal experience with the propensity to hate is rooted in one particular happenstance, here in the US. It isn’t rooted in one particular happenstance, anywhere - it happens over and over again, throughout history, around the world, and the enslavement of people of color is only one face of using a classification of people as “other” to justify injustice. Even in the United States, there have been numerous variations on the theme. Look at the internment of people of Asian descent at Manzanar during the second World War. Look at the discrimination of Irish immigrants around the turn of the last century. Anywhere there’s a homogenous community that faces the prospect of people unlike them, this behavior tends to emerge, because as soon as people gain a little power, the first thing they start to fear is losing it. I think its root is in the primitive part if the brain, an outgrowth of the fight-flee-freeze survival instinct. The members of the herd see a potential threat in something unlike them; they fear the source of the perceived threat; they hate what they fear; and they lash out against what they hate, and try to control it. It’s become in vogue now to tar men of Western European descent with this brush, as it should be - Caucasian males have behaved atrociously toward practically everyone at some point. But the happenstance of their race isn’t the cause. There isn’t something in the genes that makes them so in a way not found in people with different levels of melanin in their skin. It’s the dark, soiled underbelly of human nature, and it can occur wherever humans are found because we’re so fucking insecure as a species. We really hated not being at the top of the food chain early on, and we never got over it. Once we figured out that we could gang up on the leopards to control them, it was but a step to realize it also worked on people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ErosWired Posted February 8, 2023 Report Share Posted February 8, 2023 8 hours ago, Sfmike64 said: I have a rule that I don't ever sleep with Republicans. I would urge everyone else here to do the same. No one is hot enough for that. The problem is, most of the men who fuck me never bother to speak to me, so I have no way of knowing their political inclination, and since Republican cock in my cunt feels just like Democrat cock, there’s really no way to discriminate. 🤷🏼♂️ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Piggyybttmm Posted February 16, 2023 Report Share Posted February 16, 2023 It seems like it's not just Louisiana, but areas surrounding as well. I was just in Jackson, Ms for work and still wasn't able to log on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sowwite Posted February 16, 2023 Report Share Posted February 16, 2023 I've been using a vpn for years so this doesnt really hurt me as much as others. This state is a joke thank god I was already planning on moving Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmoothATLVers Posted February 16, 2023 Report Share Posted February 16, 2023 4 hours ago, sowwite said: I've been using a vpn for years so this doesnt really hurt me as much as others. This state is a joke thank god I was already planning on moving Next destination? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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