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Pornhub is one of the most visited websites on earth [1]. So, my question to this comment is how do you define value in this case?
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-visited_websites
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#12Ignoring other (obvious) issues, it’ll be interesting to see how people respond. Do they seek different entertainment? Does it lead to more or less socially desirable/adjusted behavior?
Generally you get more of what you subsidize, so my bet is that this will lead to less porn consumption, an absolutely massive win.
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#13How do sites that have porn but not their main purpose respond, or do they have to? Reddit and Twitter come to mind, I've stumbled across a lot of weird stuff on both.
i think they don't want to respond as to avoid being the crosshairs.
i'm surprised that the app stores let them on though since it isn't that hard to view it
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#14What if you had to show Government ID whenever you entered a grocery store, a library, a movie theater? What if you were tracked each time you consumed a video, a still image, an audio clip, or even a text message?
What if the government kept a record of any or all of those checks? What if they arranged for third parties to commercialize that data so they could 'legally' end-run any restriction on domestic spying with a small ad targeting data service fee?
This is the sort of dystopia that librarians and others focused on liberty have been fighting for what seems like forever.
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#15How do sites that have porn but not their main purpose respond, or do they have to? Reddit and Twitter come to mind, I've stumbled across a lot of weird stuff on both.
Reddit had a lot of dark subs and users for a very long time, and they kinda just swept it all under the rug.
/r/spaced*cks, ViolentaCruz, others I cant recall, and the infamous /r/cannibals controversy with a reddit founder and CEO.
Yeah, weird times - not its many bots - and interestingly, in the last year, a boatload of .in India subreddits for various aspects of their culture (like IdianMotorcycles, Weird train behavior, their version of /r/idiotsincars, lot of bollywood and movie and celeb gossip subs.
Maybe need a comment filter that hides anything that a non-sequitur or perhaps comments that have < (N) syllables, words or sentences?
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#16It would only affect local businesses advertising on G-rated websites in porn-banned states if porn viewers in their state found it easier to just leave the VPN running all the time.
Is this a reasonable point?
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That's no way to talk about people from North Carolina.
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#19Ignoring other (obvious) issues, it’ll be interesting to see how people respond. Do they seek different entertainment? Does it lead to more or less socially desirable/adjusted behavior?
They will quickly learn what VPNs are.
Or just discovery slightly sketchier websites that don't operate in the US...
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#20What if you had to show Government ID whenever you entered a grocery store, a library, a movie theater? What if you were tracked each time you consumed a video, a still image, an audio clip, or even a text message? What if the government kept a record of any or all of those checks? What if they arranged for third parties to commercialize that data so they could 'legally' end-run any restriction on domestic spying wit…
If you extend this policy to "consuming a video/image/text message," that would be dystopian. But this is about porn. Maybe it'll be a slippery slope but I doubt it.
I wouldn't vote for this policy but I get it. Lots of people don't want kids watching porn. And it's not just social conservativism, people across the political spectrum think porn is addictive, psychologically damaging, and leads to sexual dysfunction.