Why not? You might not feel your expression is limited in any way, but what about your neighbor who does feel limited by such bans? — Bitter Crank
Side Note: Minneapolis is still (slowly) undoing restrictive laws on liquor sales put in place after prohibition ended. Loosening the grip of restrictive morality can take a long time. — Bitter Crank
Do you see anything at stake for democracy in Facebook and Tumblr's actions? — Bitter Crank
I consider sexually explicit material, photos or paintings of nudes--including female nipples--to be appropriate material for people over 16 or 18 to view, enjoy, and share with their peers. I prefer gay erotica (pornography) but I take the same view towards straight erotica or pornography -- whichever term you prefer.
So much for free speech and the sexual revolution, Tumblr and Facebook...
The right to free speech isn't the same as the right to use someone else's platform. — Michael
I'm not sure what's driving the fact that we've been going backwards--it's surely a complex of factors, and one of them was surely the rise of AIDS, but one of the main controlling, "high-level" factors is that we've maneuvered to a society where (1) livelihoods can easily be trashed via moralizing social pressure, (2) People are more prone to moralizing, including bandwagon-moralizing than ever, (3) and we've fueled this via the ubiquity of social media, where a few crazy, squeaky wheels can have a bigger impact than ever. — Terrapin Station
it would help if we had a different economic structure in place, so that social pressure from moralizers doesn't matter. — Terrapin Station
Political and sexual deviants like myself tend to associate with other political and sexual deviants. This can lead to a serious misapprehension about what the masses are thinking. — Bitter Crank
It has no effect on democracy, because democracy has no effect, because all aspects of power have gone from governments and are in the hands of corporations. — unenlightened
Just want to add that Facebook is not just one website among many, one product offering among many. In some parts Facebook is pretty much synonymous with Internet, which makes it more like a utility, for better or for worse. So what Facebook does (or does not do) is not just a private business decision - it has a global social impact. — SophistiCat
I do not believe it is good for society to make intimate behavior public. I also am not at all in favor of freedom of expression. — Athena
My concern is that, in general, we have trashed human dignity and made everything meaningless. We have created anarchy — Athena
What rules the individual, physical urges or the mind? — Athena
Just curious what sorts of things you see as examples of the above? — Terrapin Station
Whoo, that is an awfully big subject! Right now I am bothered by what looks sexual confusion to me. So many people don't appear to know what they are and what they want to be. I am not opposed to homosexuality but really, some men trying to be women won't succeed any more than I can pass as a teenager. I don't like being an old wrinkled person but I have to live with that, and some dark-skinned people may want to be white and that could lead to a lot of trouble. It is not just that trying to be what we are not, can be a problem for us, but also it can be a problem for those engage with us. Out of this comes pain, distrust, fear, and these lives can become unbearable to those lives them. :rofl: Looking 30 years younger would be a huge improvement in my self-image and ideas about what I can do with my life, but that ain't going to happen, so I look in the mirror and tell myself I look just the way a grandma should look. If I had magic wishes I would wish for everyone to be happy with who they are. — Athena
perhaps the effect of these two is different? My concern is cheapening our humanness and playing to fantasies that are abusive, or believing hurtful acts are okay if that is what one wants to do. How art expressing intimacy can also bring out the best in us. — Athena
Right now I am bothered by what looks sexual confusion to me. So many people don't appear to know what they are and what they want to be. I am not opposed to homosexuality but really, some men trying to be women won't succeed any more than I can pass as a teenager. — Athena
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