Wordpress to be blocked in Brazil over sex video?

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Thanks for keeping us posted.
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Hi Mr Yan,

Hope your day is cooler then Los Angeles, Cali is blazing, summer fires burn hot and its only April...

Amazing post!

However, I find it hard to imagine that Brazil has an issue with porn. They should have a concern with AIDS, the cheap sex and underage labor that Brazil offers to Sex Industry.

Actually, I find it hard to imagine that the web's underbelly is filled with porn. That such a large % of online revenue is based on porn. Moreover, that Major Market Advertisers have allowed their brands to be co-branded with sex sites. Do shareholders not know, or care?

Yet, blocking WP sites does not control the dynamics; people's taste or lack of taste. Free speech, I guess, is an old American phrase. I wonder; will blocking wordpress sites stop white slavery, sexual abuse towards young children, men from going to Brazil to engage in power driven sex events that hurt the fiber of global culture, and humanity?

Thanks for allowing me to pose my questions. Sex is what it has always been. Yet, the online media has tried to make porn a staple of global culture and economics. I understand lust, from a posture of lust. What I don't understand is when sex and racism combine; that creates porn. Not just pictures of cute girls or guys. Just type any standard url, misspell a word and BAM!, you are looking at porn. My mom shops online, she is in a rage over the lack of privacy, and respect to humanity; all related to porn and its online revenue.

Still:
bill

Gentlemen, thank you. Timothy: my pleasure as always. As you often write, ‘I’ll report, you decide,’ though I notice that some of the less open-minded commenters might take that as ‘I’ll retort, you decide’!
Bill: I so agree. Brazil already shows plenty of skin in sites such as The Girl on Terra, Paparazzo, Morango and Bella da Semana (my Portuguese is poor so I may have spelt these wrong). These are just publicly accessible ones, never anything like a nipple except for paying subscribers, but girls in states of undress. It gets bluer with the obvious Playboy and SexyClube sites.
I suppose even with this characteristic in Brazilian culture they have some sort of moral tut-tutting when it comes to showing intercourse itself, though I note that their Big Brother has shown it, as has the programme in other nations.
You are right that there are far greater concerns in that nation and blocking Wordpress serves no public policy. The people who should be punished—those leaking the video—seem to now get the message that they need not be responsible and others have to suffer.
We can try to turn a blind eye to online porn’s existence, but they do not congregate in their own areas. They are quite willing to make those fake URLs as your Mom has encountered, and trick us even in Google to go to porn sites and even download porn software on to our machines in the form of spyware. Surely that serves no one except for the hits that a pornographer affiliate might get paid for—but I’d rather not have the bad karma from that.
Perhaps YouPorn, in that context, is a good thing: at least it gives a central clearing-house for sex videos and those who seek or provide that type of entertainment won’t need to bother the rest of us. The cynic, however, in me says that that will only make the others work harder in getting the unwanted attention of the general public, and that includes children and the elderly. The sex economy, the fixation on sex, are not good things for us to be so focused on, yet I don’t like it being constantly propagated even through prime-time shows such as the old Friends or Desperate Housewives.
I do not regard myself a prude but you are right: there are more pressing things to be concerned about, and I’m far too busy to find double-entendres in every sitcom appealing.
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i think it's pretty hypocritical of Brazil - you go on a beach anywhere on the country and there's practically naked people everywhere - and, please - there's always some Brazilian model in vogue, prancing around in her underwear all over the catwalks - besides, like shepherd wrote, there are much bigger issues to tackle in that country
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I completely agree. I remember when the Brazilian courts tried to shut down YouTube because one of their models had a bonk on the beach with her boyfriend in the surf. They seem to take the attitude that the perpetrators should not be responsible, but the websites that are merely intermediaries. Yep—Brazil does have many other issues that are far more pressing.

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