There was this congressman, who’s name I can’t be bothered to remember, on the news yesterday who wanted to ban the publication of FHM because, according to him, it destroys people’s morality, or so what I could recall from what he said over a TV interview. As most of you know, I am a pro-smut supporter. But even though, I passed it off as just another political charade. Well, who wouldn’t anyway? Politicians are all alike. May it be senators, congressmen or whatever. It’s all about money and power. If the reason is as cheezy as “protection of people’s innocence” or something, I don’t think people would even buy such lies. Besides, innocence is a word that does not exist anywhere in this world anymore. There may be a lot of uneducated people as they are, but there’s a lot of difference between an uneducated person and a plain stupid person who keeps closing his eyes. In Tagalog, malaki ang pagkakaiba ng isang taong walang pinag-aralan ang ng isang taong sadyang tanga and nagbubulagbulagan. (Ah, Tagalog definitely sounds better. It creeps you out to the bone. Or my English is just crappy.) Whatever the hidden agenda behind that FHM and other smutty magazine banning, given their reason (the facade one), I don’t think that reason is even enough to ban them. I think they should think of a better and more convincing reason than that. It’s even crappier than my English, seriously.

In the case of Loren Legarda arresting people for pornographic contents in their website, I think, it’s none of her business nor is is any of the people’s business that the author wanted to publish those. the fact that he was able to publish them without his host complaining already means it’s allowed. You see, the Internet does not belong to the Philippines nor the Philippine Law could dictate what should and should not be published though the Internet. As all of us might’ve already known this fact that the Internet has this mutual ethics of read and/or view at your own discretion. To put it more simply, if you don’t like what you read or see in a website, then just fucking leave. Your ass isn’t needed and who do you think you are anyway? If you wanted to say something about it, then say something. That’s freedom of speech. But arresting people just because of pornographic contents to his site? Get real, people.

I think, if it doesn’t have anything to do with you, why take the trouble? Of course, unless there’s a hidden motive to this, on which, I believe is always the case.