Violent Pornography

There are many reasons to ban violent pornography and there are also many reasons why responsible adults should be allowed to view it. I am no lover of pornography, but feel that if you ban something that offends, what is next on the list?

My problem with the proposed government legislation is that it doesn’t take account of how these web sites are advertised using unwanted or spam e-mail messages. So what happens if I inadvertently view a message with some horrendous image? Now as I use a desktop spam filter which corrals these messages and then deletes them automatically, how would anybody know if I had viewed the enclosed images? They were certainly downloaded to my computer in the unwanted e-mail.

A better solution is for worldwide government action on spam. Spam fighting companies know where in Eastern Europe, China, the United States and elsewhere, the spam is originating and it would be a simple matter to stop it.

This approach would not just deal with violent pornography, but with other abuses like fake lotteries, the so-called phishing scams, fake gift cards, Nigerian 419 scams, endless Viagra ads etc.

A final point is that if each of the 15 billion spam message a day costs just a penny in terms of time and extra hardware and software, then this adds up to a staggering £55 billion in a single year.