Wednesday, January 18, 2012
LA to require porn industry to use condoms
The Los Angeles City Council Council just voted 9-1 to require porn industry actors to use condoms during sex. The bill will now go to the Mayor to be passed and enforced.
This is worse than San Francisco banning fast food restaurants because they argued it was making poor people unhealthy and fat.
Mark my words, if LA enforces condom use for pornographic art (ya, I'm calling it art), then one of two things, or a combination of both, will occur.
This is worse than San Francisco banning fast food restaurants because they argued it was making poor people unhealthy and fat.
Mark my words, if LA enforces condom use for pornographic art (ya, I'm calling it art), then one of two things, or a combination of both, will occur.
- The law is ignored absolutely and entirely. Just as prohibition of alcohol was ignored in the 20's and early 30's, this law will be ignored. Just as marijuana laws are ignored today, this law will be ignored. This will create a disregard for the law in the porn industry, and likely increase the possibility that other more reasonable laws will not be heeded. Furthermore, I imagine that this will be difficult to enforce.
- Pornographic companies will move out of Los Angeles to another city. Business will be driven away.
The truth is that there is not a market for pornographic film where a condom is used. People do not want to see it. A company making pornographic pictures (haha, calling it a picture makes it sound like it deserves an Oscar) should be careful if not having actor use a condom, the actors should be tested regularly, or non visible or other means should be taken for safety. But a blanket governmental rule requiring condoms would be like banning real guns from being used in action movies, or banning Matthew McConaughey from chick flicks, it just isn't feasible.
This is right up there with SOPA and the NDAA. (not really, that is a bad joke).
SOPA
The bill will allow the Dept of Justice to shut down websites which facilitate copyright infringement, or that are accused of facilitating copyright infringement, which could be as little as providing a link to a website with copyrighted material.
The bill threatens the openness of the internet, it will in effect make the federal government a censor of the internet and what they do not want to be posted. It is a violation of the 1st Amendment.
Such censorship has so far been the province of autocratic dictators quenching uprising and free speech.
This is a house bill, H.R. 3261 (The Senate version is called PIPA).
The Stop Online Piracy Act was introduced by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and was initially co-sponsored by Howard Berman (D-CA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Steve Chabot (R-OH), John Conyers (D-MI), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Elton Gallegly (R-CA), Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Timothy Griffin (R-AR), Dennis A. Ross (R-FL), Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Lee Terry (R-NE). (can you say corrupt, corrupt, corrupt, ...)
Some interesting current sponsors include rep Peter King and Debbie Wasserman.
Ron Paul voiced his opposition of SOPA in an open letter, no other Republican Presidential candidate has so openly rejected SOPA to my knowledge.
The bill threatens the openness of the internet, it will in effect make the federal government a censor of the internet and what they do not want to be posted. It is a violation of the 1st Amendment.
Such censorship has so far been the province of autocratic dictators quenching uprising and free speech.
This is a house bill, H.R. 3261 (The Senate version is called PIPA).
The Stop Online Piracy Act was introduced by Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) and was initially co-sponsored by Howard Berman (D-CA), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Steve Chabot (R-OH), John Conyers (D-MI), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Elton Gallegly (R-CA), Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), Timothy Griffin (R-AR), Dennis A. Ross (R-FL), Adam Schiff (D-CA) and Lee Terry (R-NE). (can you say corrupt, corrupt, corrupt, ...)
Some interesting current sponsors include rep Peter King and Debbie Wasserman.
Ron Paul voiced his opposition of SOPA in an open letter, no other Republican Presidential candidate has so openly rejected SOPA to my knowledge.
The candidates supporting this bill are bought and paid for by the likes of Viacom, FOX, Bose, Burberry, CBS, Ford, Harley Davidson, Lucky Jeans, Coach, Nintendo, Sony, etc (some weird companies are supporting this bill).
The people oppose it. Let us see if corporatism or democracy wins this round.
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Republican debate audience booing
I dislike the Republican base more than I dislike the Democratic base.
In the above video, Ron Paul, in speaking about foreign policy, argues that the nation should follow the Golden Rule, and not do onto others that which we would not like done upon us. The Golden Rule is a basic tenet of philosophy and what is moral. Yet, the audience vehemently booed him on it.
In the above video, the audience boos a gay soldier asking if the candidates will continue to protect gays having equal rights. Too add insult to injury, the always beautiful and charming Megyn Kelly defends the people booing. She defends the crowd for booing because it was not due to the fact that he was gay, but because he wants "gay rights protected." A gay person should have his rights protected just as much as any other person has his rights protected. All people have natural rights and should be treated equally. A straight person can announce they are straight, but a gay person cannot announce they are gay. He wants equal rights, not greater rights, and that is not only moral, but what our great Constitution requires.
In naming this blog Logos over Pathos, I meant to keep my arguments rational as opposed to emotional. logical as opposed to making fallacious arguments or using appeals to emotion or straw men, etc... Here is disregard that self-imposed rule, to say fuck you Megyn Kelly, and fuck you republican debate audiences who are too small-minded to hear another opinion. Fuck you.
In the above video, Ron Paul, in speaking about foreign policy, argues that the nation should follow the Golden Rule, and not do onto others that which we would not like done upon us. The Golden Rule is a basic tenet of philosophy and what is moral. Yet, the audience vehemently booed him on it.
In the above video, the audience boos a gay soldier asking if the candidates will continue to protect gays having equal rights. Too add insult to injury, the always beautiful and charming Megyn Kelly defends the people booing. She defends the crowd for booing because it was not due to the fact that he was gay, but because he wants "gay rights protected." A gay person should have his rights protected just as much as any other person has his rights protected. All people have natural rights and should be treated equally. A straight person can announce they are straight, but a gay person cannot announce they are gay. He wants equal rights, not greater rights, and that is not only moral, but what our great Constitution requires.
In naming this blog Logos over Pathos, I meant to keep my arguments rational as opposed to emotional. logical as opposed to making fallacious arguments or using appeals to emotion or straw men, etc... Here is disregard that self-imposed rule, to say fuck you Megyn Kelly, and fuck you republican debate audiences who are too small-minded to hear another opinion. Fuck you.
Friday, January 13, 2012
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