Comments on: No porn please

By: Ladyfingers

Ladyfingers — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:52:57 +0000

Rod,

Yet here you sit typing in an internet forum, using a computer with a keyboard and mouse setup with over 100 buttons.

This luddite excuse of “well, normal people…” is hogwash. If you can operate your MultiChoice decoder (press “on” , change channel, look at menu, etc.) then operating the parental controls is hardly rocket science. You just enter the menu and set them, where they are clearly marked. You might as well make excuses for bad drivers (“not his fault he ran over a child, driving is hard!”). If you bring a gun into your home, you should know how to secure it, yes? Come on.

I also resent the hackneyed, Dworkin-esque idea that porn is always abusive, entirely filled with junkies and desperate victims of trafficking. It’s extremely patronising to women, in my opinion, to insist that anyone who chooses to make money doing something that’s distasteful to tertiary-educated, bourgeois sensibilites is automatically some variety of pitiful wretch.

By: Rod of Sydney

Rod of Sydney — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 22:07:03 +0000

@jean-Michel. You can do your best to block sites on the internet – the challenge however is global. The choice was, do we add a local challenge with another media to this? One has to do what one can for kids.

By: Jean-Michel

Jean-Michel — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 17:52:49 +0000

Here’s an interesting article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257210/Porn-film-director-Anna-Arrowsmith-selected-Lib-Dem-Parliamentary-candidate.html

Why ban the DSTV channel? Surely the intenet is the worst offender in distributing porn? Shouldn’t we be trying to shut down the internet then before we all become damaged goods?

I don’t get it.

By: Rod of Sydney

Rod of Sydney — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:59:22 +0000

@ladyfinger…ever so respectfully, aren’t you being condescending calling us all imbeciles and people who cannot lock up electronic devices too stupid to have children…. knowing how to press buttons is not an indication of intelligence but exposure to technology. Can you tile a house, design an amazing garden, fix a car, direct a blockbuster, invent penicillin? and one for the ladies, bake an unflopped souffle? those all require intelligence that has nothing to do with learning how to press buttons. by your view players of video games must be the brightest contributors to humanity.

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:09:59 +0000

Sorry – forgot to add “FFS”

By: Roy

Roy — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:55:02 +0000

I WILL DECIDE

By: JBagley

JBagley — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:42:04 +0000

There has been some really active debate online since DStv announced they had sent out a survey to find out people’s reaction to starting a subscription based porn channel. Bear in mind that this isn’t the first survey they have sent out as they are constantly engaging with their subscribers to find out what they would like to see on DStv.

With regards to the porn channel, here is a link to the official press release from Multichoice and their decision of not going forward with the porn channel. http://forum.dstv.com/showpost.php?p=43654&postcount=233

One thing is for sure, it’s great to see so many people engaging and talking about DStv. It shows they have a number of really loyal customers!

By: JBagley

JBagley — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:41:30 +0000

With regards to the porn channel, here is a link to the official press release from Multichoice and their decision of not going forward with the porn channel. http://www.free-kick.tv/what-bafana-bafana-should-be-doing-in-brazil/

One thing is for sure, it’s great to see so many people engaging and talking about DStv. It shows they have a number of really loyal customers!

By: Jennifer Thorpe

Jennifer Thorpe — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:44:57 +0000

Ladyfingers…no.

But thanks for asking.

I think that it’s bad to watch the abuse of women. And I’m not ashamed to say that.

IF (and all you band waggon jumpers just hold yourselves back) porn displays the abuse of women and IF porn is mimicing sexual relations that are harmful to women, then I’m happy to say DON’T WATCH IT.

If you want to watch it and can live with yourself, that’s your choice.

But, Thanks Rod of Sydney, I am happy. No porn on DSTV. YAY!

By: Panchetta

Panchetta — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 10:38:52 +0000

@Ladyfingers

Jen has her own opinion and she shared it with us. She also motivated her opinion. She is not ‘telling’ anyone what they may or may not do, and is definately not ‘immensely condecending’ by expressing her beliefs.
It is rather immensely condecending of you to deny her her opinion on the matter.