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EmbarrassedHelp t1_iuf1q6j wrote

> Other groups have called for an effective ban on online pornography. Anti-porn group Collective Shout called for all pornography to be treated under the same classification as child sexual abuse material or terrorism material, which would be required to be removed or blocked in Australia.

Its no surprise that the groups pushing for this massive privacy invasion are batshit insane.

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Guac_in_my_rarri t1_iuf3jtp wrote

I don't get groups that want to outright ban something. It doesn't hurt you, leave it the fuck alone. Block it from your family, but as soon as they get freedom, they aren't coming back to the old rules.

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685327593 t1_iufb2y1 wrote

There's plenty of things that should be outright banned, this just isn't one of them.

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XkF21WNJ t1_iufct4w wrote

Yep, though you should always be careful what mechanisms you allow to be used to ban stuff. It's no surprise they're trying to use laws designed for terrorist and child sexual abuse, those are often the ones used as justification for mechanisms that would seem excessively authoritarian otherwise (those and money laundering).

The danger with allowing tools like this to exist is always that people get weird ideas about what other things they can be used for. Doesn't matter how loudly anyone promised they'll never be used for anything else.

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leopard_tights t1_iufdufs wrote

Kids on social media should be banned straight away. It should be banned for everyone but we can't take it away from the adults.

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bakfietsman69 t1_iui7jnl wrote

my brother in christ, you are literally posting this on a social media platform

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leopard_tights t1_iuiq4cp wrote

Reddit is more like an old forum. It's still anonymous, separated by topics, you follow those topics, not people, etc.

I don't care though, ban Reddit too.

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Mundane_Magi t1_iugsxvm wrote

We should ban the public exercise of religion.
These people wanna act all persecuted, let’s make it their reality.

I mean not that I have anything against that kind of thing, I just don’t think it should ever EVER be seen in public. I mean how the hell am I supposed to explain the weekly human-sacrifice-and-ritualistic-cannibalism role playing to my kids???

Love the evil cultist, hate their evil cult.

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nyaaaa t1_iufcfon wrote

It hurts their favorite fantasy novel. And that's reason enough for them.

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Pretzel_Boy t1_iugx168 wrote

It's not even well written.

Plot holes everywhere and no internal consistency.

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MetalBawx t1_iuffuk7 wrote

Because once something is banned it's alot harder to get it unbanned generally.

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conquer69 t1_iugmjfz wrote

> I don't get

They are religious nutjobs. There is nothing to get because they don't use reason and logic for their motives. They are cultists, not intellectuals.

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Deadlocked02 t1_iuf940h wrote

They’re apparently a radical feminist group, judging by their page. It’s hard to tell them apart from evangelicals, they share a passion for some of the same causes.

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Deadlocked02 t1_iuflhej wrote

That’s what happens when you don’t believe in middle grounds. They don’t believe people can watch pornography without being addicted and trying to emulate what they see there IRL. They don’t believe someone (or better, women) in their right mind can possibly consent to do porn or sex work for money.

I have a friend like that. She spouses many of the same views of the group mentioned above. Anti-pornography, anti-prostitution. Goes as far as calling prostitution “consented rape”. And you know what’s funny? Despite being an outspoken radical feminist who is against all those things, I heard she’s making good money on OnlyFans. Not only that, she’s doing actual sex work. And her parents supported her financially, so it’s not like she needed that to not starve. But it’s good money that can allow a very expensive lifestyle for her age.

I understand their premise. I truly do. The professional porn industry is plagued with problem, there’s amateur porn being uploaded without the consent of one or both parts, there are people addicted to porn, there are women in third world countries with no option other than prostitution to make a living. But putting us at the mercy of corporations to remedy that or even leaving room for dodgy/dictatorial governments to use our data against us? That’s insane. As well assuming that a middle class woman in college from a first world country who does porn to earn money and afford an expensive lifestyle or an exhibitionist couple who decides to monetize their sex is the same as an underage girl being sexually exploited in a third world country or a mother who resorts to prostitution because that’s the only way to support her family. Or that someone who is single and watches porn once or twice a week is the same as someone who prefers pornography to sex with their partner.

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roiki11 t1_iuhai6m wrote

Wait, an active sex worker who opposes porn and sex work?

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Deadlocked02 t1_iuhuifl wrote

She was against sex work and pornography long before she started earning money with those things. You’d think she would change her mind, but apparently not. She still follows and shares things from anti-porn/anti-prostitution pages on Facebook. How people can deal with this level of cognitive dissonance is beyond me.

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yukiaddiction t1_iuhsj3u wrote

I saw drama about this earlier in SDR about former porn addicted guy post about how porn is inherited bad because he used to addicted to it and thinking other people who watch porn also addicted too lol.

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lIlI1I1Il1l1 t1_iuif4db wrote

Wasn't onlyfans female empowerment? Girls make so much fucking money

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MetalBawx t1_iufehac wrote

It's the same old shit use kids/terrorism/etc to justify invasive, vague and easily abused laws and surveilence.

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sids99 t1_iufrf4l wrote

Way before photography and film, people created porn. It's not going away.

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