Freedom from Pornography Should be Strengthened

   Once you could protect yourself by the books you chose to open, and the movies you chose to go to, and the places you chose to go.
   Not so, no more.
   The Internet came along; Facebook came along. And with them, a trail of pornography, if I can call it that. They may just be scantily-clad women, not completely unclothed, but they are pornography, the same. And, while you can influence which ones come up by never clicking on any that seem questionable, the danger remains. Images with too much showing still filter in.
   There is a right: the right not to have to view these things, the right to be free to view what you want to view. If a person were to streak unclothed down the streets of a city, they would be arrested. Why? Because we should be free from having to view such things.
   It is no different with the soft porn on the Internet; We should be free from it being forced before our view. We should be free from it being forced upon us.
   Whether it is to be found on billboards, or television, or wherever, it is an invasion of our freedom.
   Our laws should be strengthened.
    1.) It should be illegal to disseminate images to those who do not want them. The Internet providers can often target their advertising, allowing it do disseminate to those who do not mind it, and not subjecting it to those who don't want it. They need only to go through the doors they are welcome, and not those that they are not.
   2.) Billboards should be held to perhaps the highest standard of all as we consider our rules. No display should reveal uncovered skin in the greater genital area, nor bare the hips. No displays should reveal skin too low below below where the breast begins. If the display would offend the sensibilities of many in the public, it should not be allowed. Billboards present their images before all of society. Every person who drives a car is subjugated to them, forced to view the images whether they want to see them or not. Because billboards force their images on people more so than many other venues (if I might use that term), there should be greater restrictions.
   3.) The same rules for billboards should apply to the hard copies of newspapers published within the state. And to all publications appealing to all cross sections of society that are either published within the the state or primarily targeting only Utah. Thus, we would not attempt to control national magazines that would be impossible and perhaps unreasonable to restrict. Nor would such instate publications not seeking an audience with everyone  -- entertainment publications and such -- be so restricted. Thus, playhouses, concert venues and others would be free to publish pictures suitable for their clienteles, and to disseminate them to their clienteles. The rule of your freedom ends where my nose begins would be honored in that they would not be allowed to disseminate the images to those who do not want them.
   4.) Theaters would be required to have personnel available, and available by phone, who could answer questions about movie content. Thus, before seeing a film, customers could learn whether it would offend their senses. Such personnel would be required to have viewed all movies playing a the theater.
   5.) Video rental and sales locations would be required to post phone numbers where people could call for input on movie content during business hours. Such content personnel, due to the large number of videos, would neither be required to have seen all films nor to be aware of the content of all of them. Still, they could discuss the videos the best that they could.
   If legal counsel suggested any part of the above would not stand as law, I would remove it from the bill, and file a second bill as a resolution encouraging businesses on the matter. Actually, I might even go the direction of a resolution, anyway, on some of the points.