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What are your thoughts on restricting children’s access to pornography online? (lemmy.world)
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There are a lot of GOP-controller legislatures in the USA pushing through so-called “child protection” laws, but there’s a toll in the form of impacting people’s rights and data privacy. Most of these bills involve requiring adults to upload a copy of their photo ID.

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[–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

I would combat that by saying I think most pornography is nowhere close to what sex is like. Anecdotally, I hear more stories about men who try to fuck someone like they’re in a porn film, which can result in physical pain to their partner.

I think teaching kids about sex and giving them access to porn that often displays non-consensual acts as normal are two totally different things.

But yes, I think 4 is a very strong point, which is why most of the bills that are being proposed are not being executed well.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago*

    Oh sure. Generally speaking, most porn is a terrible sex educator.

    However, it's also a wrong target for concerns about child sexual abuse.

    And crackdowns on "porn" tend to end up being crackdowns on sexuality-related speech and sweep in a lot of other speech too.

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