On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:30 AM, David Kiania | Asentric Consulting Ltd <kianiadee@gmail.com> wrote:
Those who publish porn don't claim to be journalists or members of any 'professional' body .. that has got to be earned. Secondly the internet unlike airwaves are not a public resource. So let's carry your debate to the nth level should we have free porn on Tele 247, or unregulated content.
Porn was merely an analogy. It is completely possible to compare ISPs with broadcast media as a public resource. A website is like tv channel just the broadcaster isnt under your control. Just as in something like DSTV or free-to-air satellite channels are not under government supervision. Going by your line of thought we should be supervising ISPs because they are conduits for infinite immorality. You want to go to the pains of regulating a few terrestrially broadcasted audio and video channels which few people watch or care about. Ask a guy in a rural area with bad water supply and no electricity, if he cares about what comes on television ? I bet he wont get his panties into a knot for whatever is shown on television. There are a million things of more importance that could be better regulated -- starting with the regulators themselves.