09-01-2003, 07:32 AM
I know I'm nothing more than a backwateres hick, and while living out in the mountains might not help things much, I can't help but to wonder at what I recently heard.
In the city about a half hour's drive from my home, I've heard that there are these two people who got in trouble for using the internet for accessing "obscene material." Also, as an extention, these two actually sold obscene merchandise, ran a website supporting it, and so on.
The results: they had all their money removed to the bank (I think it was about $10,000) one lost $8,000, they both lost their house, each has been sentenced too five years in jail a piece, and to top it all off, they have to pay a fine when they get out.
I don't know why, but doesn't this seem just a bit too much? I mean, why would the goverment actually try to pry into people's lives about looking at adult material when it's effecting no one else but the person who wishes to view it? True, they were running a website, and selling sex related merchandise, but all the same, if anyone actually went to their website or bought anything from them, it would only be because they wanted to.
What is with the crack-down on adult material? If it's only attracting those who actually wishes to view/posses this stuff, then why worry about it? I mean, if it actually involved someone who was unwilling to be a part of it, that would be one thing, but since it's not, I can only see this as nothing more than a big money racket so the U.S. can line it's pocket's with more money.
In the city about a half hour's drive from my home, I've heard that there are these two people who got in trouble for using the internet for accessing "obscene material." Also, as an extention, these two actually sold obscene merchandise, ran a website supporting it, and so on.
The results: they had all their money removed to the bank (I think it was about $10,000) one lost $8,000, they both lost their house, each has been sentenced too five years in jail a piece, and to top it all off, they have to pay a fine when they get out.
I don't know why, but doesn't this seem just a bit too much? I mean, why would the goverment actually try to pry into people's lives about looking at adult material when it's effecting no one else but the person who wishes to view it? True, they were running a website, and selling sex related merchandise, but all the same, if anyone actually went to their website or bought anything from them, it would only be because they wanted to.
What is with the crack-down on adult material? If it's only attracting those who actually wishes to view/posses this stuff, then why worry about it? I mean, if it actually involved someone who was unwilling to be a part of it, that would be one thing, but since it's not, I can only see this as nothing more than a big money racket so the U.S. can line it's pocket's with more money.