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What the US PornHub ‘ban’ is really about
(www.independent.co.uk)
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Doesn't seem too unreasonable. When I buy alcohol I have to provide verification that I'm over 21.
The thing is, how do they enforce it? People in those states can still access pornhub through a VPN. Plus, what about all the other many, many porn sites?
I get what they're trying to do, but I think there are some logistics that haven't really been thought out.
But that's just it, they have thought about the logistics. We already have Meta changing their rules to allow LGBTQ + people to be called "mentally ill" with no repercussions.
The Great Firewall of China isn't an accident, it's actually how internet hardware like routers and switches are built to work from the ground up, with security like access control lists, as well as logging connections and seeing what data goes where and so on. That's the scary thing about the internet, it just takes people wanting to turn it into a draconian nightmare to flip a few switches. I mean, really, the US already has but it just feels like it less because of the release valve of "free speech." The NSA Utah datacenter has been around for a while now.
They have thought about the logistics, and they want to bring those kind of controls here. As always the plan is to control what happens online. Musk has definitely made some weird and creepy comments about "making lists" and while he's an idiot, he's got the tools and people to make it happen.
They couch it in a reasonable position to start the path to blocking access to content about sexuality for anyone. When youre a queer kid growing up and being told that it's just the devil's work and other bullshit the internet and being able to talk about your experience was the first freeing thing you could do in your life. It also lead to women having higher standards because women could communicate more and not be isolated by their male partners controlling behavior. Conservatives fucking hate that. This kind of ban could ban that kind of speech online, and I firmly believe it's intended to.
They expect the porn provider to verify age/id through very invasive and onerous means. It is in no way reasonable or secure to give some random porn site a copy of your government ID. They will get hacked; not if, when.
Not only that, it turns any site that doesn't just outright block the age verification states into a massive target.
I was unaware that porn could kill you.
Not your fault. Nobody can be aware of everything.
And yes, people have fapped to porn until they had a heart attack and died due to it.
Source?
My bad. Remembered heart attack story instead of stroke one.
https://nrtimes.co.uk/masturbation-linked-to-stroke-in-medical-case-study/
In other words, could have happened whether he was masturbating or having sex. Wasn't the masturbation that caused it, was the orgasm. I guess we're just not supposed to orgasm now?
Regardless, porn wasn't mentioned anywhere in that article.
Also...
A whole two cases (three counting the linked one). Doesn't really seem like an epidemic now, does it? Considering legit every boy does it, and the ones that deny it are likely lying.
However unlikely, it can nonetheless happen.
Now that's just quibbling. Porn is generally used for the purpose of masturbation.