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Want to watch porn in Britain? Get your passport ready
(www.politico.eu)
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this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2024
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Wow, what a boldly inaccurate take. How can you possibly believe this? Do you never interact with children? Just a few weeks ago a teacher gave out a URL that had a typo in it to my nephew's middle school class and sure enough it was a porn site. In 2024 no less. IT didn't even block the site. Porn is far too easy to find online inadvertently, case in point turn off safe search on any popular search engine. LOL "nobody is visiting porn sites inadvertently these days", thanks- needed that today lol
Turning off safe search requires explicit action, so I wouldn't consider that accidental.
Interesting point about typos though.
I typically have safesearch turned off and I recently had DuckDuckGo give me porn I wasn't looking for for two image search queries (Google did not give me porn):
Of course, I've been on the internet for a while and was neither shocked nor offended.
I’m gonna call bullshit. I want to know the two urls. It was a few weeks ago so this should be easy information to get.
It's plausible. Could have been a low-effort typosquatting site loaded with porn ads.
I’ll bet you a dollar it never happened though.
I'm not saying it never happens, but it's not a super common occurrence.
And even if it is, locking down the entire internet and monitoring people in an Orwellian fashion isn't the government's job.
What happened back in the day when kids walked in on their parents doing the deed? What did the parents do when their child snuck a passage of Shakespeare and read all the filthy jokes he wrote?
Oh, they spoke to the kids and guided them through a normal part of life?
I have a son. I would like for him to not see graphic images on the Internet. But when he does, I will explain to him that human beings have sex (which is why he exists). I will tell him that sometimes people like to watch videos about it because it feels good to them. I will explain to him that it's fake, just like the action movies and violence he sees on TV. I will tell him it's nothing like that in reality and I will explain to him that he's not ready to see that material yet.
Fascists always gain control by offering "safety." Ironically, they're more dangerous than the thing they claim to protect you from.
Yeah, making a government list of porn watchers with their watch history available is 100% going to be abused. It will not turn out well.
lol iirc there was a case where a domain name for some website expired, so hundreds of ukrainian language textbooks had urls pointing to a porn website. it was all over the local news
(also the publisher tried to get the website blocked (which doesn't make any sense)???)