Not always illegal (Score 1)

Uh, yeah. There's the slight difference that providing access to pr0n to minors is illegal, whereas showing pictures of firearms is not.

That's not entirely true. It may be illegal in the US (I'm assuming you are from the US), I wouldn't know since I'm from Denmark. But it's not illegal everywhere, which just proves the point (at least the point I read) of the original discussion: No one country should be the governing body of the web, since no two countries agree about everything.

A comment like yours, that states as a fact that something is illegal, without moderating it with 'in the US', just helps to strengthen the image of the americans as a peolpe that (either by choice or because they waven't been taught better) is totally ignorant about the world outside the US. I know this image is not true (a lot of my friends are from the US [sic]), but your comment just doesn't help.

And before this degrades into a mudslinging contest about pushing porn on minors: It's not because I think that minors should be subjected to porn, without protection/guidance. But there are several points to think about:

• I think a kid's/minor's parents are best suited to regulate when the minor should be allowed to be subjected to porn. Partly because they know him/her best, and partly because they are in the best position to advice and guide the kid about the porn.
• When is a minor a minor? The age where we legislate about adult/minor sexual relations in Denmark is 15. My guess is that it's 18 in the US, and something else somewhere else.
• What is porn? *)

*) Some would say that a girl in a bikini, but striking a sexually insinuating pose is porn. I wouldn't. Some might not think that a still picture of a naked couple lying next to each other, and almost touching each other genitals is porn. I might think it is, depending on the context. In 1972 a lot of people thought that the sex-scenes in "Last Tango in Paris" were pornographic. Today I'm not so sure you could get the same across-the-board agreement. What I'm trying to say is: One man's smut is another man's art. And if we try to cater to the least common denominator, we might end up with all pictures of females covered from the neck down, so we'll have to guess if they are dressed, because otherweise the picture is porn.

I know that in the US, the word 'bang' is slang for an activity not discussed in polite conversation, but in Denmark it is either the sound made by a firecracker or the name of a famous Danish author: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Bang, whom I don't think I'm related to.

-- Jens Bang