Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads - eviltoast
  • pandacoder@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Yes.

    A bunch of states including NC are just blocking porn to protect the children but it’s literally the laziest solution with some of the smallest impact.

    Twitch, Discord, and Roblox are far more accessible and arguably more dangerous in terms of short term consequences than porn because they are primarily social interaction platforms.

    I’ve never seen Rotten or Liveleaks (at first I thought you meant Rotten Tomatoes that’s how unaware I am), but they could probably use similar regulation.

    It’s not even that I think porn regulation is inherently bad, but the implementation is garbage and the claim to protect the children is extremely weak.

    Social content sites are dangerous because of the opportunity for predators to easily encounter minors (especially age restriction breaking ones under 13), and violent content sites are, well, violent? They should be a higher priority but they evidently aren’t.

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      11 months ago

      Yeha, I’m not defending the implementation but the idea. I think children shouldn’t be exposed to certain things. The reality is that the internet is flooded with porn and it’s basically impossible to achieve, but maybe this is just the beginning of something more organized.

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        11 months ago

        As much as I would like to believe that, these politicians have more than demonstrated their intentions and modus operandi. They need to be voted out and replaced with someone who will actually try to do the right thing even if it’s not such an easy talking point come reelection time.