NEXUS: Google isn't just Google,

... porn isn't just porn, and sex crimes against women and children aren't just sex crimes against women and children ... at least not anymore.

The brouhaha over Google's resistance to providing the justice department details of web searches is not just a mega-tech corporation resisting government intrusion, nor is it their appeal to a higher moral plain ... as always, just follow the money.

At the adult entertainment industry's equivalent of the Oscars in Las Vegas this month, comedian-host Greg Fitzsimmons zeroed in on the entrenched relationship between the Internet and pornography.

"The Internet was completely funded by porn," he said from the stage of the 23rd annual AVN Awards show. And if it wasn't for the Internet, he added, "you guys would be completely out of business." The audience, packed with porn actors and adult entertainment moguls like Jenna Jameson and Larry Flynt, roared with laughter. [WAPO]

The church needs to wake up and smell the Venus Fly Traps. There's no way an industry generating "$2.5 billion per year" isn't affecting, let alone infecting, the church. Perhaps you don't believe your people are peeking or that your youth don't get with their friends and peek. That my friend is Ostrich theology.

This week, the Justice Department said it subpoenaed four major Internet companies in an effort to crack down on children's access to porn. The government asked Mountain View, Calif.-based Google to turn over every query typed into its popular search engine over the course of one week. Google has said it will resist the demand.

Ignorant, myopic Americans protest the Justice Department's failure to stop this cultural cancer and then, when they do make an earnest and moral effort to respond, these same ignoramuses stand in their path by claiming they're invading their privacy.

The standoff has resonated in the online world not only because of its privacy implications, but because it goes to the heart of what has spurred the Internet to such prodigious growth.

I'm told there is a seed pod on a tree in the Middle East that looks very much like a bright shiny apple but when cut open the inside is a black dry powder. The church is like that - all bright and shiny on the outside with a dead black heart! God forgive us!

One industry analyst said, "Porn is to new media formats what acne is to teenagers. It's just part of the process of growing up."

Mainstream companies almost never specify how much money they earn from the skin trade. "They don't like to talk about it," said Sasa Zorovic, an analyst for Oppenheimer & Co. "It's a huge, huge market. Yet no one will say a word about it."

"nex-us a connection or link between things, persons, or events esp. that is or is part of a chain of causation" [source]

Rob Enderle, a tech industry analyst, said that technology and pornography have an interdependent relationship that tech pundits don't often acknowledge. "So much of the technology that we're using now for less risque purposes had its origins in porn," said Enderle, who pointed to online "streaming video" as one major example of a technology that was driven by porn in its early days.

This should should not be a surprise to the church, we have a divine nexus ... consider Ephesians 4:1-6 and 11-16 ... perhaps the church is surprised but you church leaders shouldn't be!

For example, while Hollywood is still struggling with how best to put its movies online, entire porn empires have been built by production companies selling streaming-video programs on the Internet. Naughty America, one such company, has been in the business for five years but only last year decided to make some of its programming available on DVD. [...]

While attending a recent adult entertainment trade show in Las Vegas, Wired.com sex columnist Regina Lynn said she saw other emerging technologies that will likely be adopted by the porn industry before going mainstream -- for example, a start-up company called Mobile Streaming Solutions working to make live video chat possible on cell phones.

So, pastor, if you see a guy clicking away on his cell phone during your soul humbling, conviction spewing message tomorrow don't assume he's text-messaging his brother about the Spirit's movement in morning worship. He could be watching another spirit ... a very dark spirit and it's not Google's fault.

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