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Extreme porn law used on beastly Chinese DVD pirates

How does porn "offend"?

I don't even understand how the term "offensive" applies to porn. What emotion are they talking about? Is it the same one I feel when someone insults me? Disgust I understand. 2 girls 1 cup easily qualifies under that heading.

But "offend"? How does that work? How can you offend me with something that isn't aimed at me personally, or perhaps my family?

Admittedly, religious nutters might get offended if you include their holy symbols in your porno - say fucking a donkey through the mouth hole of a portrait of baby jesus, or a certain prophet, or david beckham - but they seem to live for the purpose of getting offended by things. And anyway didn't Madonna take that sort of thing mainstream decades ago already and make us grow up?

Help me understand! I feel so completely isolated from the part of the human race that can manage to summon up the emotion of offense in response to viewing shenanigans of a sexual nature. Where does that come from? How do I connect to that part of my psyche?

Offense. I have none.

Google Wave - interwebs idealism in real-time

Holy crap

Mind <-- Blown

Agree with AC @ 21:50 - collaboration is the killer feature for business users here. And frankly may engender a whole new era of informal social collaboration on the interwebs, simply because we've never before had a tool that makes it so straightforward and natural.

They've obviously properly thought about the privacy and data sharing issues as far as restricting shared data to appropriate servers. But I still see some big gaps here:

- No mention of encrypted transmissions between the servers and clients.

- And I didn't see any native feature that allows authorized users to enforce restricted distribution lists for certain documents, or particular portions of documents. But seeing as you're working with centralized resources, at least it should be possible to develop such restrictions. Something that is patently not feasible with email.

This is definitely game changing tech. Just, wow.