Amid Tumblr and Facebook’s recent bids to ban all adult content, an anti-gay group of students at Notre Dame University have asked the school to ban all sexual content on its WiFi networks, and the idea might be catching on at other schools.
The Daily Beast reports that Notre Dame student Jim Martinson published an open letter signed by 80 male students in the Notre Dame Observer, asking for a campus-wide filter to block all adult content.
“Martinson’s open letter in claimed that [adult content] teaches men to objectify women, normalizes sexual assault, and exploits the men and women involved…. The letter was quickly followed by a response from more than 60 ‘women of Notre Dame,’ who argued that [adult content’s] prevalence on campus was “preventing men and women from encountering the full personhood of one another in friendships and relationships,” The Daily Beast reports.
These 60 women aren’t the first to make this claim. Second-wave feminists of the ‘60s and ‘70s have long claimed that skin mags and sex flicks dehumanize people. Even The Atlantic recently published a piece blaming a reduction in American sex lives on the increase of mobile technology, like WiFi, XXX websites and hookup apps.
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But Martinson’s idea seems to be spreading. The Daily Beast reports students from Georgetown University, Harvard, Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania have expressed interest in similar bans.
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Unsurprisingly, these bans are predominantly supported by religious students. Martinson is part of a student group that is anti-abortion and anti-gay marriage, and so are the Georgetown University and Harvard students who support his ban.
These bans probably won’t happen though. They’re a free speech lawsuit just waiting to happen, and there aren’t any studies really linking adult content to bad interpersonal relationships. (Misogynist sexual content is more likely a symptom of misogynist culture, rather than its cause.)
Lastly, adult content just too popular. Approximately 33% of all women and 66% of all men consume it. Even Republicans have largely given up their so-called “war” on adult content.
But don’t let that fool you. Republicans in state legislatures have still tried formally declaring XXX content as a “public health emergency” and the bipartisan bill against sex trafficking (FOSTA/SESTA) is part of what’s behind Facebook and Tumblr’s recent purge of adult content, as the law takes effect in January.
HereIAm
Unfortunately it is unlikely for the school wifi to block the indecent material like porn but I sure hope they can because people shouldn’t be allowed to use the public resources to feed their disgusting habit of watching indecent stuff.
punkgaymer
Do you also, then, suggest hotels do the same? Because most likely it happens there too! Why is it such an issue to you? It really doesn’t take up that much bandwidth. Video games take up way more. Students are customers of college. If they’re paying for the internet service, they should be able to use it however they want.
Chrisk
I used to belong to a college religious group. it attracted all th the crazies like flies to shit.
rbernard
Try as the religious zealots may, they will never ever put that genie back in the bottle.
The vast majority of the traffic on the internet is porn and as a network engineer, I can tell you it always has been this way.
It says a lot about our human nature and preferences.
If the zealots don’t like it, then it is their choice not watch it.
There lies the rub.
They want to decide for the rest of us and we need to make sure they never get a chance.
PLAYS WELL WITH OTHERS
And time after time hotels report record porn consumption during ANY Republican event held there….
seaguy
Ban religious sites that would do much more good!
sydboy007
I thought the rule is if someone find it offensive it’s practically violence, so it must be banned.
Free speech for all or eventually free speech for none
Clay83
Just go to your religious schools and leave the normal people alone! I am so tired of these demented religious folk trying to impose their outdated views on the rest of the world
brianlange
Straight boys need hot porn to stay hard for girls. I get thier attention by smoking thier pole eating out thier sperm hole for 25 m utes by then my top is rock hard and i get pounded. T hen he tops me and rides me 75 minutes he cums in my face and up and leaves im cleaning off the cum he looks back laughing a takes a pic of cum face. I felt so used i wanted a date from him now i am a skank in his circle