OFF: Censorship hits home

[Tom Clark]

Porno Illegal in Canada? ....must be if it's imported.  Instead, though you
can always go to the  neighborhood tittie joint and watch two completely
naked women on stage touch one another and show you their
innards....Nationalistic pornography, must be...hmmmm...

"Ted Jackson jr. s2h2" wrote:

> > From:          M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK>
> > If any others have any suggestions of how to take on the book burners
> > and the craven politicians backing them, then we're open to ideas...
> >
>
> Funny you should mention this.  In my town, there's a plan afoot to
> re-zone much of the city in an attempt to outlaw most 'adult
> entertainment.'  Because you can't legally put someone out of
> business who is running a legal shop, you must offer them an
> alternative site if you institute such zoning.  So they've proposed a
> sort of 'porno ghetto' in a lonely stretch of town where all the
> adult businesses will have to locate!  Actually, this has been done
> in other US cities, c.f. Boston--a city which always used to pride
> itself as one of the intellectual nerve centers of North America.
>
> But how 'bout Canada?  Porno [hardcore, that is] is completely
> illegal, and will be siezed at the border.  Didn't some band get in
> trouble over this a few years back?
>
> theo