woodgnome/joe king re: internet porn
Posted: Mon Oct 15, 2001 4:25 am
Agree entirely with the lack of coverage which porn's contribution to the internet has been given - still, you can hardly expect a reactionary rag like the Murdoch on Sunday to treat porn as a legitimate adult pursuit and give it coverage.
Pornography on the internet is a force both positive and negative. It is impossible to regulate, and therefore prone to be used as a means of distributing abusive porn which is rightly illegal. On the other hand, it is also a tremendously potent and flexible means of distributing responsible adult pornography on demand. Moreover, an area which I think has never been covered in sufficient detail, is the contribution porn has made to the development of internet technology. Online payment. Encryption. Video streaming. Sound delivery. Image compression. Identity verification. All were developed, to large extent, by the porn community on line. Porn is to the internet at large as formula 1 is to cars and military planes are to airliners - the testing ground of new technology.
Pornography on the internet is a force both positive and negative. It is impossible to regulate, and therefore prone to be used as a means of distributing abusive porn which is rightly illegal. On the other hand, it is also a tremendously potent and flexible means of distributing responsible adult pornography on demand. Moreover, an area which I think has never been covered in sufficient detail, is the contribution porn has made to the development of internet technology. Online payment. Encryption. Video streaming. Sound delivery. Image compression. Identity verification. All were developed, to large extent, by the porn community on line. Porn is to the internet at large as formula 1 is to cars and military planes are to airliners - the testing ground of new technology.