It's no longer just age-verification. Large right wing influencers are calling for a complete ban on porn, and targeting anyone who opposes it a a pedophile.
It's a crusade.
It's a crusade.
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i'm sure that's not going to be used to persecute or blackmail anyone!
- "not ban" other sources of porn
- let Twitter off the hook
- Twitter has a lot of far-right propaganda -> easy way to radicalize people, even to a point where they're willing to give up their freedom of speech.
And they might be right.
furthermore, age verification lets them keep a big database of who watches what kinds of porn, ripe for blackmail or further persecution
Everything else, like "wanting small government" and the like has just been excuses.
But...to be fair, while it's possible some priests are not practicing pedophiles themselves; we also know all clergy within a given church are complicit in the coverups (and attempts to deny defend depose verses child abuse victims) making them all accomplices.
See Project 2025.
Step one: ban porn
Step two: make being LGBT in public “live porn”
Step three: anyone in the LGBTQ+ community can be arrested for existing
Before you know it they will be telling you what books you can read, what art you can see, and what topics you can discuss.
They care about control and they will play on peoples emotions until it’s too late and people realize they have no freedom of thought or expression left at all.
Florida and most of America voted for this.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-sunny-side-of-smut/
This could be a very abusable copypasta
like, who's exposing the kids to porn (and could it be self-projection yet again!) ?
I'm not sure this distinction matters. It's a ban.
In practice, they were kicked out.
I feel comfortable calling that a ban even though age verification was the method of the ban.
Its main goal is to stop adult porn consumers, using "but the children" as an excuse, and the RWers have been quite upfront about that except when being questioned on the news about specific laws.
I'm happy bsky does allow us to tag stuff properly so it isnt shown to them.