=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= - P.I.S.S. Philez Number 35 = = - - The Net and the Media = = - - by Defenestrator = =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The media today has power that most people don't believe. People blindly follow anything that a show such as 20-20 or a magazine such as Newsweek says. And the media portrays the Internet as a porn-ridden meeting place for pedophiles and other fucked up people. I'm not saying that pr0n is wrong (well kid stuff is) but I'm just saying that the media and the public in general has the wrong idea about the Net. Let's see what would happen if what the media said really was true. As I log in to my ISP, as soon as I connect to Hotmail to check my mail, I'm flooded with porno pics and solicitations to go to some fuck's house for a "meeting". After I see that, I go into an ICQ or IRC chatroom, and people either file transfer or DCC me some pr0n. Then when I go to ftp some kewl stuff, I'm overloaded with 10 Netscape windows popping up with pictures of women doing dogs. Once I actually get in, I find that the ftp has been replaced with exclusively pr0n pics and ways to make bombs (yes i know we did that, but if you actually tried it you are stupid). Now those of us who use the net know that this is a bunch of crap. There are some objectionable things out there, but if you don't want to see it, DON'T LOOK FOR IT. You actually have to find these places, they don't just come and pop out at you. A couple of days ago, I saw in Newsweek about a kid who had been having a relationship with a pedophile, and some kid had knocked on the fucked up kid's door, to sell something for school. The fucked up kid, for some reason, killed this other kid. It was all over the news. The media was clamoring that this was a Net-related issue because he met the pedophile over the net, and also that this kid had a web site. Big fucking deal. Lots of people have websites. This kid's website was about Smashing Pumpkins (they suck), but still everyone claimed because he had a web site that the net is fucked up. Damn it. I can't fucking believe it. How in the hell can anyone with an IQ over 3 say that this was net-related? It had nothing to do with the net, just the fact that this kid was screwed up, and that the other kid shouldn't have knocked on his door (i think this was in nyc, cuz i never knock on anyone's door there that i don't know). The media thinks pr0n is everywhere. Like the other day, when I was watching Johnny Bravo on the Cartoon Network (that show's funny...and I was also waiting for Space Ghost) he had Johnny logging into the net and he said, "Oh mama. Women on the computer. I don't even have to meet them in real life." Then he proceeded to go into a "chat room" and talked to some "girl" who proceeded to go over and meet him. Now this would not really happen unless both people were losers, or people without anything to do. However, the joke was that the person that showed up at Johnny's house was a deer. Still, that's not my point. The point is the stupidity of the American public to blindly follow anything the television or printed media says. So to them, until they try it, the net will be a filth-ridden hole in which everyone who uses it is dealing kid pr0n. That's fine. We probably don't want them anyways, if they can't make up their own damn mind. The thing that still gets me, especially living in the Bible Belt South, is that these people try to push their values or beliefs on you, so that you have no choice but to accept them. This is what's happening with the Communciations Decency Act. If you haven't heard of this you've been living underneath a rock for about three years. The government, because of this "widespread problem" wants to regulate everyone's speech. This includes the article I'm writing right now. Probably it would be knocked off because I swear so much and used the word porn. Now is this indecent? I think not. Am I forcing this on you? No. But are you reading this? I guess so. Protect yourself from Big Brother. http://www.eff.org Defenestrator defenestrator@hotmail.com for the mf'ers who say this is wrong, flame root@127.0.0.1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PISS - People into Serious Shit Founderz - Defenestrator, PhrostByte Memberz - Author Parselon Wu Forever kQs CGibbons Extinction Faekon/Homarid Grench Greenseed Tim 121 Rhodekyll Dial Tone Psycho Phreak Djdude Circular Reclusion Havok Luther AT2Screech Contributors- Sameer Ketkar PISS, the author, and anyone else does not take responsibility for what you do with the stuph contained in this phile. If you get busted, don't cry to us. We don't care. Want more stuph? 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