Both Sides Playing The Porn Card In File Sharing Debate
from the hot-button dept
Want to make a point that something must be bad? Just play the "porn" card. Somehow show that if x were to occur, it would (or already does) help the porn industry. Playing the porn card seems to get an emotional reaction from people that "this must be bad, it must be stopped". That's probably why both sides in the file sharing debate are playing the porn card. The RIAA has been pushing the view that file sharing networks are bad, because there's a lot of porn that flows over the network. Meanwhile, civil libertarians are saying that letting the RIAA randomly fire off subpoenas for ISP customer info is opening the door to questionable porn operations to do the same. That is, they're trying to get people to think, even if it's okay for big Hollywood companies to get your private info, how do you feel if the same were true of a sleazy porn operation?
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RIAA vs. Sleazy Porn
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RIAA is by FAR the sleazier
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ban everything
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