I’m just filling the void with mental and social junk food
Good post.
I’m lucky to have not seen porn until I was an adult and I hate to think how it’s become completely typical for child to start seeing porn from a very young age.
I 100% think it’s good that countries like China ban porn. Ofc it doesn’t actually work but I have to image it makes it much harder from children to stumble upon or find
I think that’s a great way of banning things online. If you actually want the thing and are willing to go out of your way and show some basic technical competency, you can have it. But if you’re a child or a grandma stumbling around with no idea what they’re doing you won’t end up reading some American Facebook page about how the covid vaccine is made from kidnapped children’s bones.
I don’t agree with the banning of porn in principle, but I agree that the net effect of banning porn probably does a net good in the case of china. It is just so incredibly ripe for exploitation and so very dangerous for children. I swear if I ever have kids, if I take a hard stance on anything at all, it will be no unsupervised internet access until an appropriate age (12, 13? I dunno). And then a thorough discussion of what kind of stuff is out there on porn sites and how it can be very harmful for developing brains.
I think a lot of us were lucky to grow up during the more unformed internet before it turned into a Bad Vibes & Propaganda Firehose and were inoculated to the worst of it, but as it presently exists I would not let a child near it.
I think banning it is totally fine and probably necessary.
I don’t think it should be criminalized however. Adults will still get it just fine under a ban and banning might be the only way to reliably keep it away from children
True, regarding keeping it away from children. But if there is a demand for it, won’t it just result in the production of it becoming a sketchy underground market, an environment ripe for abuse? Just throwing some thoughts around, I don’t have any super firm stance on what I think an ideal system for porn would look like.
