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Dear <<MP Name>>
I am writing to you today with a serious question. It's not one that you would like me asking you in real life, it's not one you'd really enjoy anyone asking you and you might even blush if your partner asked you this question. It's a question that our goverment is intent on asking those of us who are over 18.
Do you watch pornography over the internet?
Of course, as your constituent, this is more a rhetoical question. It's not one that I feel needs answering, by you, or anyone else. But I am concerned that this question is going to be asked by our government, and it's not one that we should answer. We have come a long way in our society, that the pleasures and passions of the bedroom have become private and the government does not anymore prosecute or persecute those who have loving consensual relationships with other adult humans.
Whilst the above is obviously excellent, I believe the question about a persons porn viewing habits could lead back to a goverment that seeks to prosecute and persecute those who indulge in consenting adult performances. The goverment logging and aggregating every adult film/photograph/media that a constituent of yours might view, is a massive invasion of privacy and has potential for a leak, we only need to look towards Cambridge Analytica. It is also a step backwards for a nation that has been leading the way in it's tolerance and openess to all walks of life. I ask you to bring this matter up with the Minister for Culture, and ask the same question I asked you at the beginning of this letter as an urgent question in the House of Commons.
I can see no advantage to the government, or a private firm, being allowed to collect data about it's citizens pornography viewing habits. Whilst we can all agree that children should not be exposed to such media, and can agree it has gotten a lot easier for such media to come in to the hands of children, I don't see how this aggregation of data would prevent children from being exposed. I am pre-supposing this as an explanation, and would ask you to question further the Minister for Cultures plans under this explanation.
Yours sincerely
@alecmuffett
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Dear <>

I am writing to you today with a serious question. It's not one that you would like me asking you in real life, it's not one you'd really enjoy anyone asking you and you might even blush if your partner asked you this question. It's a question that our goverment is intent on asking those of us who are over 18.

Do you watch pornography over the internet?

Of course, as your constituent, this is more a rhetoical question. It's not one that I feel needs answering, by you, or anyone else. But I am concerned that this question is going to be asked by our government, and it's not one that we should answer. We have come a long way in our society, that the pleasures and passions of the bedroom have become private and the government does not anymore prosecute or persecute those who have loving consensual relationships with other adult humans.

Whilst the above is obviously excellent, I believe the question about a persons porn viewing habits could lead back to a goverment that seeks to prosecute and persecute those who indulge in consenting adult performances. The goverment logging and aggregating every adult film/photograph/media that a constituent of yours might view, is a massive invasion of privacy and has potential for a leak, we only need to look towards Cambridge Analytica. It is also a step backwards for a nation that has been leading the way in it's tolerance and openess to all walks of life. I ask you to bring this matter up with the Minister for Culture, and ask the same question I asked you at the beginning of this letter as an urgent question in the House of Commons.

I can see no advantage to the government, or a private firm, being allowed to collect data about it's citizens pornography viewing habits. Whilst we can all agree that children should not be exposed to such media, and can agree it has gotten a lot easier for such media to come in to the hands of children, I don't see how this aggregation of data would prevent children from being exposed. I am pre-supposing this as an explanation, and would ask you to question further the Minister for Cultures plans under this explanation.

Yours sincerely

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