I detest porn. I wish it didn't exist. However, I don't support its regulation by any authoritative body. I govern myself. I support freedom--the authentic kind within which each of us follows our own heart and mind--not the "freedom" experienced by populations considering whether or not porn or anything else "should" be regulated by some distant governing body.

If this authority--whatever agency or appointed ruler or whoever it is who would design these regulations and enforce them--if this entity regulated porn such that I didn't see it, it would still exist.

Large numbers of people want porn to exist, so it does. In the same way that I don't support treating the symptoms of a disease without addressing the cause, I don't see the point in regulating porn. Porn is a symptom of greater problems--the satisfaction of souls, our ability to connect with one another. . . Government regulation is a symptom of a greater problem--the problem of one's willingness to govern oneself.

I agree that the Internet is a representation of collective thought, or desire, as another participant in this debate suggested. However, I would argue that more than "a few people" are against porn. Those who hold the power to regulate porn better represent "a few people" than do those who do not desire porn. I do not support the governing actions of "a few people" who hold power.

Porn will go away when people want it to, despite regulations.

"Free speech" or "freedom of expression" has never meant free speech under government. "Free" has never meant free. I do not argue against leadership. I argue against rulership. A ruler does not make a leader. People freely follow leaders, not rulers. Groups or individuals who hold the power to regulate porn or anything else are rulers.

Freedom of speech is an idea, not an absolute right. Governing bodies continue to decide, as in the case of regulating porn, when restriction or suppression of the "right" is warranted.

Defamation, obscenity, perjury, contempt, threats, speaking publicly without a permit, speaking publicly outside of a free speech zone, profanity, hate speech, noise pollution, classified information, copyright infringement, sedition, treason, blasphemy. . . . Limitations abound.