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maderrRed Rose Stories was recently shut down for obscenity charges. The article is here. She got busted hardcore for hosting a fiction site with stories that contained ped, BDSM, non-con, incest, scat so and so forth. Now a lot of this would barely make me blink, the rest of it makes me O_o but
It was all fiction. I detest anything involving children. There are certain kinks which well never appeal to me. But to each his own. So long as there are no real children involved and the real adults are all consenting, that's that. And like I've already said, this was a fiction site. Unless I'm missing something (becasue I've only been awake fifteen minute or so, which means I really shouldn't be typing right now) I don't quite know how the FBI was allowed to bust her. By those rules, even I'm going to be in trouble eventually for my Evil Incest Tendencies (oh yeah, mom don't read that part).
Someone on logophilos linked this NPR report and it's pretty damn annoying. As in, the government was honesty confused as to why their cases were thrown out. Fucking duh they were thrown out. Morality and law are not the same thing. You *can* arrest people for dropping their pants in the middle of Time Square and fucking like bunnies. You can't arrest someone for watching a video of that scene being played out. If the government wants to really crusade against the Evil Porn Industry, shoudln't they at least figure out wht the fuck their doing first? It sounds like they're making the rules up as they go...
I realize a lot of people Seriously Disapprove of Such Immoral Materials but really why? First rule of fanfictiondom - If you don't like it, don't read it. Our entire system of ratings and warnings and listing the pairings (which has to suck for some, b/c listing if often spoils what the author is planning) exists to avoid offending as many 14 year old nitwits as possible. It's a problem that kids can log on and surf porn, yes. But you know what? That's a parental issue. And I'm sorry, but everyone one of us has read or seen things we weren't supposed to see during our young and tender years. But I never went overboard, because I knew my parents would freakin' kill me. Or maybe I just grew up with awesome parents who never acted like sex and stuff was Big Bad And Evil. If I recall correctly, it's still the four of us who are teling my parents to freakin' behave. My dad will occasionally greet me, when he calls, with "So how goes the gay porn?"
/end tangent. My point being - the tax dollard diverted to crack down on obscenities should be focusing on the child porn. Because that isn't fly unless it's total fantasy. Kids are too young and undeveloped to understand completely what's going on. So long as they keep it to fiction (and fanart? That one I'm not honestly sure about. I've a friend on LJ who draws shota - thought not below the age of twelve - occasionally and I wonder now how the feds regard fictional works of art. I would say it's legal, but we all know how the governmentdoesn't thinks.
I hope this all made sense. One never knows when I'm still half asleep. Crack down on the kidde porn. Leave the rest of us the fuck alone and remind parents it's their job, not the government's, to keep track of what their kids are up to.
That broadcast also amused me in that they government was disappointed they could no longer bust people for sodomy. I can just see their moralistic little faces crumble in disappointment. Why the hell is everyone obsessed with what everyone else is doing in their bedroom? Honestly. I liked this world more when being nosey wasn't acceptable.
And as a final biting of my thumb, Figaro icon. Now I need to get dressed and go in search of coffee.
It was all fiction. I detest anything involving children. There are certain kinks which well never appeal to me. But to each his own. So long as there are no real children involved and the real adults are all consenting, that's that. And like I've already said, this was a fiction site. Unless I'm missing something (becasue I've only been awake fifteen minute or so, which means I really shouldn't be typing right now) I don't quite know how the FBI was allowed to bust her. By those rules, even I'm going to be in trouble eventually for my Evil Incest Tendencies (oh yeah, mom don't read that part).
Someone on logophilos linked this NPR report and it's pretty damn annoying. As in, the government was honesty confused as to why their cases were thrown out. Fucking duh they were thrown out. Morality and law are not the same thing. You *can* arrest people for dropping their pants in the middle of Time Square and fucking like bunnies. You can't arrest someone for watching a video of that scene being played out. If the government wants to really crusade against the Evil Porn Industry, shoudln't they at least figure out wht the fuck their doing first? It sounds like they're making the rules up as they go...
I realize a lot of people Seriously Disapprove of Such Immoral Materials but really why? First rule of fanfictiondom - If you don't like it, don't read it. Our entire system of ratings and warnings and listing the pairings (which has to suck for some, b/c listing if often spoils what the author is planning) exists to avoid offending as many 14 year old nitwits as possible. It's a problem that kids can log on and surf porn, yes. But you know what? That's a parental issue. And I'm sorry, but everyone one of us has read or seen things we weren't supposed to see during our young and tender years. But I never went overboard, because I knew my parents would freakin' kill me. Or maybe I just grew up with awesome parents who never acted like sex and stuff was Big Bad And Evil. If I recall correctly, it's still the four of us who are teling my parents to freakin' behave. My dad will occasionally greet me, when he calls, with "So how goes the gay porn?"
/end tangent. My point being - the tax dollard diverted to crack down on obscenities should be focusing on the child porn. Because that isn't fly unless it's total fantasy. Kids are too young and undeveloped to understand completely what's going on. So long as they keep it to fiction (and fanart? That one I'm not honestly sure about. I've a friend on LJ who draws shota - thought not below the age of twelve - occasionally and I wonder now how the feds regard fictional works of art. I would say it's legal, but we all know how the government
I hope this all made sense. One never knows when I'm still half asleep. Crack down on the kidde porn. Leave the rest of us the fuck alone and remind parents it's their job, not the government's, to keep track of what their kids are up to.
That broadcast also amused me in that they government was disappointed they could no longer bust people for sodomy. I can just see their moralistic little faces crumble in disappointment. Why the hell is everyone obsessed with what everyone else is doing in their bedroom? Honestly. I liked this world more when being nosey wasn't acceptable.
And as a final biting of my thumb, Figaro icon. Now I need to get dressed and go in search of coffee.
