More Stupidity:

With the release of Winamp5, Nullsoft opened the floodgates on WinampTV, a system in which anyone who has the codecs can broadcast whatever they want. Nullsoft/AOL doesn't control the streams in any way aside from running an announce program that lists all the streams.

These streams contain many things, such as music videos, television shows, people at band practice, and just other types of things. One of which has become supremely popular is streaming pornography.

Personally, I think it's bollocks because you can never get in to watch the one stream that is playing real porn, and when you do, it will auto-kick you after a minute. The other major one is just a chick sitting on a couch chatting with people in order to entice them to pay money to see her fuck a bunch of guys.

But, anyway, over at the Winamp Forums there has been a surge (OK, two people) of parents bitching about the porn and demanding a filter or else they'll "send a letter to the national tabloids." One mentions that while he's OK with his five and six year olds watching Family Guy, the porn upsets him and must be filtered!

WHAT ARE YOUR FIVE AND SIX YEAR OLD CHILDREN DOING ON A COMPUTER WATCHING FAMILY GUY!?!?! They can watch Family Guy, but not pornography? Where do you draw the line? This is the sad state of affairs in America... Parents have no problem showing their children gruesome acts of violence and supremely jilted family dynamics, along with all sorts of bizarre vulgar material... But if you flash a breast (or say "fucking brilliant" in Bono's case) on national television there is an uproar.

It's just warped, completely warped. When I have children, if I'm paranoid about my children seeing porn, the absolute last place I'd let them go on is the internet. I wouldn't even let them step near a computer until they were sixteen if I was that pissed off about internet pornography... Course, I know better, I know that at least by age eleven, my child will have looked at porn at some point. I know that trying to bar them from it will make them want it that much more.

Not that there is anything wrong with kids looking at pornography, as far as I'm concerned. Every single friend I've ever had looked at porn when they were young and have turned on pretty normal. It seems like the only reason to be against porn would be the big R word, Religion. I looked up websites on pornography addiction and it is very obvious that the only reason for anyone to ever look at pornography addiction as a thing likened to cigarette addiction would be "offense to God" which is all bollocks.

Sure, porn addiction can effect your social life and fiancial situation if you're stupid enough to let it, but I've never met anyone who is. I can't imagine myself, or anyone, spending money on porn instead of food (or paying a debt, etc)... Or even ruining a relationship because they chose porn over their girlfriend.

Eh. I don't see why porn is made out to be such an evil. Never understood it myself. Ewan McGregor (I think) mentioned this a night or two ago on Leno... We're supposedly such a sexy nation, all these hot women and everything, but if you show a penis in a movie it's considered an absolute sin. Same thing for breasts and vaginas, etc. Sure, go ahead and show graphic up close shots of someone's intestines spilling out of their stomach, but if you show a breast we'll slap an NC-17 on ya.