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-11 posts tagged "porn filter"
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, September 24, 2020
Since White Ribbon Against Pornography (WRAP) Week started again on Sunday, the petition to add a filter to Notre Dame’s WiFi that would block the top 25 most-used pornographic websites from being accessed is sure to resurface. Students for Child-Oriented Policy (SCOP) originally proposed this filter three years ago during WRAP Week, and has continued
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Fr. John Jenkins, Notre Dame’s president, recently decided to cover murals of Christopher Columbus because they were deemed too offensive to be viewed by Notre Dame students. One week later, he rejected a student petition calling for a pornography filter on Notre Dame’s Wi-Fi. We are dumbfounded. Does the University of Notre Dame really believe
Claire Rafford | Tuesday, December 4, 2018
In their last meeting of the fall semester, Notre Dame’s student senate heard a presentation from Campus Dining about new on-campus retail locations and discussed recent Observer articles regarding the porn filter. Senior director of Campus Dining Chris Abayasinghe and director of retail dining Luigi Alberganti led the presentation, where they announced the addition of
Jackie O'Brien | Wednesday, November 14, 2018
I initially chose not to respond to SCOP’s and the men of Notre Dame’s letter arguing for a porn filter on Notre Dame’s campus. Joshua de Oliveira’s letter so eloquently laid out the arguments against a porn filter, and pointed out many of the flaws in the men of Notre Dame’s reasoning. There is one
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, November 14, 2018
“Pornography is only a small part of the problem.” I am a 1974 graduate of Notre Dame. I have subscribed to the email version of The Observer since it first became available. I read with interest in the Viewpoint section “The Men of Notre Dame request a porn filter” as well as, the follow-up “Women of
Joe Nolan | Monday, November 12, 2018
A flurry of arguments and letters to the editor have been thrown around since Notre Dame students published a proposal to limit Wi-Fi access to pornography on campus. For all their diversity, all seem to agree on one thing — dialogue. Since this is the one thing both sides can agree on, and since I,
Letter to the Editor | Wednesday, November 7, 2018
“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – Martin Luther King, Jr. As the student who re-started the porn filtering conversation in the fall of 2016, I write in response to the author of the wittily-titled op-ed on the subject, “Give me Pornhub or give me death,” to
Letter to the Editor | Friday, November 2, 2018
I have again been summoned from the hole in the ground where I reside, festering with my left-wing thoughts about women’s rights and equality because of the number of Observer columns and Letters to the Editor recently published about one of my favorite topics: porn! Let’s start with the logistics of a total porn ban.
Jeffrey Murphy | Thursday, November 1, 2018
“[I]t is the state — not free speech — that has been the oppressor of women. It was the state, not pornography, that burned women as witches. It was 18th and 19th century law, not pornography, that defined women as chattel … 20th century laws that refused to recognized rape within marriage … It is the state,
Letter to the Editor | Thursday, October 25, 2018
I completely agree with “the men of Notre Dame” about the dangers of pornography. But I cannot sign their petition, because imposing the campus-wide filter they propose would cause more problems than it would solve. First, there is the problem of defining when something is pornographic, the issue the Supreme Court wrestled with in Jacobellis