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How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet (www.bbc.com)

submitted 4 months ago by BuddyTheBeefalo@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 243 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (14 children)

a survey of 1,000 young people concluded that pornography can normalise sexual violence and harmful attitudes among children.

That's irrelevant. This argument assumes that age verification laws will reduce children's consumption of porn. The war on drugs has shown us that prohibition of this kind of stuff doesn't reduce anything and only ever makes it worse. All that will happen is children (and adults) will now go to worse/less moderated websites which will on average have more CSAM and other real sexual abuse.

[–] skaffi@infosec.pub 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If you were a teenager, back when online porn were all pay sites, and so you were using Kazaa/Limewire instead, then you know.

[–] collapse_already@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago

That's not Jenna. That's a snuff film.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That was never a thing. I grew up in the 90s and I could easily find free porn websites. My main limitation was dial-up internet, not knowing where to find it...

[–] Zozano@lemy.lol 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I used to leech my neighbours WiFi on my PSP and download stories on the Sex Stories Text Repository because images were too slow.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Sometimes that wasn't enough and the anticipation of not knowing whether you'll see a nipple or a dick on the next few lines of the image was preferable.

I got in the habit of opening multiple tabs while reading a text story, and then finishing up when the tabs finally loaded.

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