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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Wednesday, November 05, 2003

Who said I wanted to be protected?

SFGate's Mark Morford details how BushCo is Protecting us from Pornography (this week--last week it was those icky homosexuals, next week it'll no doubt be cars which get more than 12 miles to the gallon and weigh less than an Abrams tank).
Look. Of course hardcore porn can be dangerous to young children. Or course it can be overly explicit and hollow and is absolutely not for kids or even certain priests. This is not an argument.

And of course the Net has helped put some truly nasty images in front of millions of children's eyeballs, and there is very little parents can do about it except deflect and restrict access and educate their kids as best they can, and hope for the best.

But maybe there are other strains, other mutations of "porn" to be wary of? Maybe there are other, far less regulated, more explicit pornographies we might want to consider, raw and darkly titillating forces hell-bent on soiling young minds and exploiting weakness and numbing the human spirit? Like, say, the pornography of McDonald's toxic foodstuffs. Or the Home Shopping Network. Or dead U.S. soldiers in Iraq. Or mutilated bodies and naked writhing guns and Rumsfeld's kinky black-eyed sneer.

Bite me, Echelon.
|| Andrew, 2:12 PM || ||

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