"I'm not naive. I know why men watch pornography"
I know plenty of women who watch it too, including my girlfriend, my ex-wife, my flatmate...
If she thinks it's just men, perhaps she *is* a touch naive after all...
Jacqui Smith 'shocked' to discover we're drowning in sea of porn
Former Home Secretary Jacqui Smith has professed herself "shocked" at the availability of porn on the internet after investigating the issue for a radio documentary. Which raises the question of what exactly she thought she was cracking down on during her time in charge of law and order. Smith famously left her job as Gordon …
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Tuesday 22nd February 2011 14:14 GMT Anonymous Coward
It's whacky
Why has her head grown enormous but her hair is perfectly average?
And what was that pose on #bbctw last week? She didn't know what to do with her hands. She doesn't come off as cuddly, attractive, personable. That's why her husband sort the cool solace of one and zeros.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iADOrCEV82Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3NieBC4o7k
She should have been retired and not somewhere nice.
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Tuesday 22nd February 2011 12:57 GMT Anonymous Coward
Not really awash with porn
Since she did not discover any porn during her time in office, the claim of being awash with porn is completely unfounded.
the equally useless Virginia Bottomley also claimed that european broadcasters were 'beaming a tide of pornography into our homes'
Grow up Jacqui, you were completely unaware of any porn on the internet
UNTIL YOU WENT AND LOOKED FOR IT !
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Tuesday 22nd February 2011 16:16 GMT Ken Hagan
Re: Not really awash
My thoughts exactly. If it is only found when you go looking for it, can it really be considered a threat to those who don't want it, such as Home Secretaries? Seems to me that she has drawn precisely the wrong conclusion from her experiences. Still, she has a telly program to sell now, so perhaps *that* explains her new-found "shock".
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Tuesday 22nd February 2011 16:17 GMT Graham Marsden
@UNTIL YOU WENT AND LOOKED FOR IT !
Ah, but you have to remember that it's just *knowing* that it's out there which is the problem!
People like Wacky Jacqui simply *cannot* bear the idea of others looking at things they don't like, hence the desire to pass the legislation like the Dangerous Pictures and Dangerous Cartoons acts.
It's laughable that she says "The internet service providers need to take more responsibility." err, no Jacqui it's *YOU* who needs to take more responsibility and understand that everyone else *also* needs to take responsibility for what they (or their children) look at. We don't need your Nanny State saying "We think this is bad for you, so *you* are not allowed to see it".
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Wednesday 23rd February 2011 13:39 GMT Is it me?
Sadly
It's not just Jacqui but all politicians, in that and many other respects, and as we move to a more and more presidential style of politics, the more we will get one persons vision of what we can and cannot see and do, and the less our political representatives will have minds of their own.
Be aware that Jacqui may have one view of the Nanny State, and Theresa has another, and that will always be true. When a politician rails against the Nanny State, it's only because it isn't theirs, be they Nick, David, or Milliband the younger.
JC
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Tuesday 22nd February 2011 12:58 GMT Anonymous Coward
Ah, so she's sexist too
Quote: But she insisted, "I'm not naive. I know why men watch pornography. But I think greater availability on the internet is worrying, the way porn is seeping into the mainstream."
Im afraid naive is exactly what you are, Jaqui, because you still apparently believe that only men watch pornography. I know its difficult for your "innocent" brain to comprehend, but sometimes, women enjoy pornography, and even sex, too. I know, crazy isnt it.
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Tuesday 22nd February 2011 12:58 GMT John Sturdy
More evidence of how far from this planet MPs are
How does someone so far out of touch with reality get into a position of such power in a supposedly representative democracy?
Or is there really such a large pool of such naive people, that it is in fact representative for some of them to get into government?
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Tuesday 22nd February 2011 12:58 GMT seanj
Smith...
Jaqcui Smith is a nobody, a has-been - a barely has-been at that. Why anyone would give airtime to this hypocritical, thieving waste of taxpayer's money (not to mention waste of air, carbon and space) is beyond me.
Flames - fire pits are what's needed, fire pits with heat exchangers that will keep children from disadvantaged families warm in winter. She always harped on about "thinking of the children", well now she can make a real difference.
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Tuesday 22nd February 2011 13:01 GMT Jedibeeftrix
The authoritarian tendencies of Labour
""The internet service providers need to take more responsibility. I don't agree with the argument that if we restrict anything available on the internet we'll turn into China.""
The authoritarian tendencies of Labour stand out markedly from the libertarian bent of the coalition, and given how unpopular all the big-state nannying is has the potential to utterly bury them at the next election.
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Tuesday 22nd February 2011 13:51 GMT Pete 2
A different sport
No, but talking b@@@@@@cks is. Sadly we didn't decide that in time to get it into the olympics (we already have a world-class stadium for it, too). If we had, we'd have won gold, silver and bronze in every possible combination of the event: Mens, Womens, mixed, team events, short-distance, long-distance and relay. Not forgetting long b@@@@@cls, high b@@@@@cks, pole-b@@@@@cks and triple b@@@@@@@cls(!!!) too.
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Tuesday 22nd February 2011 13:12 GMT James O'Shea
She's done the impossible
She's gone and made a statement so stupid that not even Sarah the pit bull bitch/mama grizzly/whatever vicious blood-swiling animal she fantasizes about next would utter it. And Sarah is the current Gold Standard for political idiocy on this side of the Atlantic, eclipsing by a significant margin both GW Bush and Dan 'Potatoe' Quayle. Combined. Jacqui has zoomed right past all other possible claimants to the throne, including Christine 'the witch' O'Donnell. (Who, for the record, must have been adopted. No Irish lass could ever be _that_ stupid, not even when blind staggering drunk.)
Congratulations, Jacqui. Once again Britannia rules.
Paris, 'cause even Paris has more sense.
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Tuesday 22nd February 2011 13:12 GMT The Alpha Klutz
"the way porn is seeping into the mainstream."
I find that shocking too, the way advertisers use sex to sell their trashy products.
Or the way in which trashy shows shamelessly use sex appeal to get people sat in front of the TV watching those adverts.
"I don't agree with the argument that if we restrict anything available on the internet we'll turn into China."
Why is everything measured in terms of China or Hitler? Because you're not-quite-Hitler(TM) yet it's okay. I have a strange idea: why don't you forget about China for two seconds and start thinking about Britain? You know, freedom and all that shit? Some of us know people who died for it.
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