maybe my perspective will help some people understand...
mind you,
warnng warning
I am more concerned with my child than my personal freedom of speech.
but to me, the netblocking companies are not so much about
protecting children from any one specific nude, or art.
Netblocking is more about just not making it as easy for them
to sit in front of a screen all day or night looking at porn,
to print it and take it to school, to become obsessive about it.
it's a natural desire and curiosity but it is addicting
for a lot of people (adults included)
I know Kids would just eat ice cream for dinner,
and drink only Pepsi. if they could.
And as mother of a thirteen year old boy
I know all the naked stuff on the net is irresistible
I feel a responsibility to help him,
we discussed buying a net-blocking thing for our home,
I said, "Butm If i bought a netblocking thing, what would keep you from
going to your friends house or even school and looking at the porn?" and i
suggested that he'd be better to learn some self-control, and if he was
looking at stuff that made him uncomfortable or that would get him in
trouble he had to listen to his conscious and be responsible, because
someday i wasn't going to be there looking over his shoulder.
AND to my surprise,
His response was THAT
was that HE REALLY HONESTLY couldn't TRUST HIMSELF.
he wanted a program to keep it from him for him.
or for me to keep an eye on him every time he was on the net.
He said that what he saw made him sick at night he couldn't stop thinking
about it
-- but he had to keep looking.
HE WAS COMPULSIVE ABOUT IT.
and i know from my our experience that what may seem bla and mundane to an
adult can be shocking and disturbing to a child, let alone stuff that is
meant to shock adults.
Also, Children haven't developed much self control or learned much about how
doing almost anything compulsively can cause damage....to themself or their
relatiosnships.
parents have responsibility to help them develop that,
to give them enough time to be kids, and enough time to learn self control,
and to at least try to protect them until they do.
the net blocking companies can help. they can give the children more
choices of the world, by blocking some of them out. ironically it can give
them back some freedom.
I make art because i need to make it, I also need to share it with my friends.
But for me art is mostly about my process, more than showing it,
It is nice to have the opportunity to show it on the net
but it's much lower on my priorities than the actual making it.
I don't believe in my heart that any art I make is ever as important to
anyone who may be looking at it as it was for me to do it.
In fact there have been pieces I've done that were pretty rough,
adult topics I had to work out in my art,
so while, i might make something another adult might appreciate or respond
to,
i never felt a need to put any of those pieces on line,
where a child might see them.
Why other artists feel a need show their pictures of blowjobs in the net to
begin with,
kind of loses me.and this is why we have and need the net blocking companies.
we all have our freedom this way.
***The potential for damage to our children from seeing too much adult material
is far greater than the potential for damage to them if they don't get to
see some beautiful line, or form or light falling on a butt i may have
painted, no matter its artistic value.
artistic value isn't the most valuable thing out there. (to me)
thanks