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Originally Posted by GA Russell
Pornography has always been illegal in the United States. As far as I know, we still are under the "community standards" test set down by the Supreme Court decades ago. In the US, it is considered by the law to be perfectly legitimate for members of the community to impose their standards regarding pornography.
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Actually, judging from the various votes we had a few years ago on gay marriage, I think that the vast majority will not only tolerate but will support ps249 and sunnysmiles. More on this below.
I don't know anything about Taiwan, but here in the US where Amazon is located, it is the homosexuals who are the small minority. We had votes a few years ago in a number of states to approve gay marriage, and they lost in every state by a landslide. My conclusion is that the vast majority of Americans consider homosexuals to be perverts, and would support the banning of gay porn.
The First Amendment has never protected pornography.
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Here in the US, it's the squeaky wheel that gets the oil. I think that just about every change of every policy regarding just about everything is due to the efforts of a relatively small group of people. If everyone waited for the majority to get off their duffs, nothing would ever happen.
In this case, I suspect the complainers would have the support of the vast majority of the American people. I think I know how a referendum on gay porn would turn out.
The nature of outlawing porn considering community standards requires that some people's views win out.
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If you consider ps249 ignorant and bigoted, I suspect that you would consider the majority of Americans to be as well. Well, Delta is ready when you are, as the saying goes.
Atheist Hans? Object to religious folks having any say in the matter? Americans who object to gay porn must be religious fringe? I don't think that you have your finger on the pulse of the American people.
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It doesn't matter if it is a majority or minority -- what matters is that some people are trying to tell other people how to live their lives. Would it be ok if a majority voted that African Americans cannot vote? That would be unconstitutional, a majority cannot take rights away from a minority.
And I am not so sure that a majority of Amazon shoppers (those are the ones that really matter here, not the public at large) actually support this removal of reading materials. The question is who can make their voices heard.
And studies have shown that homosexuals usually make up around 15% of people everywhere, and they tend to be better educated, thus they will read more. Besides, as you can see on this forum, many straight people (myself included) speak up and support their rights.