Romney was against reviving the Fairness Doctrine , which required broadcasters to devote some of their airtime to discussing controversial matters of public interest , and to air contrasting views regarding those matters . Romney said , " I 'd veto it if it ever got to my desk . And I would fight against it vehemently . The effort to try to impose the Fairness Doctrine on radio stations is , if you will , censorship Democrat style . It basically says we 're not going to let you keep talking about the things you want to talk about and the market wants to hear . " Romney has denounced what he calls the " cesspool of obscenity known as pornography " . At a commencement address before Regent University , the Evangelical Christian school founded by Pat Robertson , Romney said , " Pornography and violence poison our music and movies and TV and video games . ... The Virginia Tech shooter , like the Columbine shooters before him , had drunk from this cesspool . " In remarks to the Conservative Political Action Conference ( CPAC ) in 2008 Romney said that " tolerance for pornography , even celebration of it , and sexual promiscuity , combined with the twisted incentives of government welfare , have led to today 's grim realities : 68 percent of African-American kids born out of wedlock , 45 percent of Hispanic kids , 25 percent of white kids . " During his campaign for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination , Romney promised that if elected president he would work to have a pornography filter installed in every new computer sold in the U.S. so that parents could ensure their children would not be exposed to internet pornography . He also said , " I am not pursuing an effort to try and stop adults from being able to acquire or see things that I find objectionable — that 's their right — but I do vehemently oppose practices or business procedures that will allow kids to be exposed to obscenity . " Speaking at the 2007 Iowa Republican Straw Poll convention , Romney said : " ... I want to clean up the dirty water in which a lot of our kids are swimming , and by that I 'm not just talking about pollution , I 'm talking about moral pollution . I 'm talking about what they see on TV and on the Internet . I 'm concerned about the drug culture , I 'm concerned about the pornography , the violence , the sex , the perversions that they see day in and day out . I want to make sure that every computer that goes into a home in the future , has a button there , or a place for the citizen , the parent , to be able to block all of that pornography from their kids ' Internet screen . Earlier in the campaign , conservatives such as Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council , the president of the American Family Foundation , and Daniel Weiss , media analyst for James Dobson 's Focus on the Family had criticized Romney for not having done enough , in their view , to stop Marriott Hotels from selling access to hardcore pornography in their hotel rooms in the decade from 1992 to 2001 that Romney had served on the hotel chain 's board . Romney told the Associated Press that he did not recall pornography having come up for discussion while he had served on the board ; and he said that he was unaware of how much revenue the hotels may have generated from pornography
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