Geoffrey Darnton

Bournemouth

Academic

...what is pornography? ... who defines it? ... there are massive cultural differences in the acceptability of various images. Everyone understands the problems with non-consensual imagery or child abuse, ... but consenting adults? What a wonderful idea to have a separate domain for contentious material - then people can simply decide not to look and it becomes very easy to filter ... oh, and how about a .vio for violent material, or .mar for market extremist material for those who think it is ok to allow market forces to prevail and kill people - then we can have easier choices about what propaganda we are subjected to .... what do people think is the safest contentious material - (1) nudity and sex; (2) gratuitous violence; (3) mass death by market extremism?