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Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads (www.theverge.com)

submitted 11 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 85 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I get wanting to keep porn away from children, but on the flipside I don't trust governments with a history of criminalizing homosexuality with my porn history. Looking up, it seems that these states even kept laws against sodomy in their books.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We were all kids once, we found a way. I did, other kids will. Sure we can make it harder to access, but blocking it isn't the solution that republicans think it is.

[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

It's not a solution to the problem they say they're looking to solve. It's more government control, it's big brother, it's everything they say they don't want, so it's obviously exactly what they wanted.

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Yeah, the moral scandal of shouting that kids are being exposed to sex is just too effective at enabling all kinds of overreach.

But if you say that sex education, teaching about consent and risks and how to seek help, is far more effective at protecting children than any sort of censorship, they'll act doubly scandalized. And parents who don't want to talk about sensitive matters with their precious little angels fall for it every time.

[–] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

It's definitely double ungood.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

Exactly, additionally I don’t trust governments that consistently fail to understand artistic merit in sexually graphic art and sought to ban it to maintain free expression.

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

I see you Mr dildo haver.