I agree with your point. Being a mass publishing medium is what has kept the internet in anarchy thus far. In some cases, I think it will be possible to regulate publishers with some success. If you can get 10-20 companies to comply, you're covering most of the web.
For porn, that's not going to work. But, a filter probably will.
Censorship and contend restrictions don't need to be airtight. They never are. It's enough to just move things from mainstream to marginal. Seeing breasts, arses & fleeting (preferably comical) glimpses of balls is normal and OK, but unadvisable for young children. Genitalia in non sexual contexts is new, but now OK too (thank you embarrassing bodies). You can watch that with your friends or teenage kids. Genitalia in a sexual context is not OK. You look at that alone with a laptop in shame. You have to buy it from licensed sex shops with darkened windows.
Regulations & mainstream public opinion cross influence each other but actual line is more or less defined by TV standards and practices.
All internet porn (or political opinion or any subject of cencorship) filtering has to do is reclaim the control of that line. If you have to call up and ask for porn access or use tor to get it, it might let them do that.
Did you really just go and claim that seeing breasts is unadvisable for young children?
You complete and utter fuckwit. Do you think breasts are just there for you to leer over in your lonely cave of shame?
(1)http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturism (also contains pictures of naked people, Sherlock)
edit: Reading on in the German article.. it states that the market for nudist holidays in Germany is estimated to be around 10 million people, 1/8th of the population. Also, Germany seems to be the most relaxed of the Western countries in this issue. The history is quite interesting.
And it wasn't rage, it was accuracy.
Just sayin.
Are you not aware of what a troll is? Because you are plainly one.
fuckwit?
I thought about a more polite way of phrasing it, but nothing else seemed quite as succinct and to the point.
Have a look at what I wrote in context. I didn't make any normative statement. Nothing in that tells you anything about how I approach sex. I was talking about television standards & practices, classification systems, the public perception of what is normal and the interplay between those.
Oh and.. you're a poophead.
Which is why we always cover our baby's eyes before breastfeeding.
Legislation has historically successfully targeted only publishers, and you can do this when the number is fairly small, but not when that target is "everyone" because of the work required in monitoring (which is still not amenable to automation, despite what politicians may believe - it's still just too hard for the software technology we have).