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I’m a porn abolitionist, and I still hate these laws. Requiring digital identification online is an incredibly chilling step. It is a direct assault on anonymity.
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Nitpick: currently in the US, most public libraries do not regulate anyone, of any age, from reading “adult” books.
They wont allow minors to take out porn. Simply, they wont and it would be illegal for them.
What is adult content? A cartoon butt? A book on breastfeeding? "I can't define porn, but I know it when I see it" has led to Calvin and Hobbs being banned.
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I think the point they were making is that a child can walk into a library, pick up any book, and open it. All without any adults being in the loop. They can do that today.
Yeah, and my point is that the "pick up any book" thing is hiding the fact that selection is in fact seriously limited. And second, underaged kids can not checkout non kid material without adult in the loop. That part is simply not true, the librarian will say no to the child or ask for parents permission.
If your goal is "prevent children from accessing adult material", it really isn't that limited.
> underaged kids can not checkout non kid material without adult in the loop
They don't need to. They can read it in the library; that's what libraries are for.
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I imagine they were referring to the behavior of cis men Secondly, it's not clear which group you're bigoted over—trans folks or drag queens
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Drag queens are men who prefer to dress as women sometimes but who identify as men. Like, FBI director Edgar Hoover.
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> some group of middle age mothers With all due respect this comes across as mysoginic and ageist. It is also quite unnecessary to your point. Especially because middle aged women aren't the most powerful lobby in the US by any stretch.
That seems more like your interpretation of it; it’s merely an objective descriptor of the identity group in the same way that “straight white males” is.
I should have quoted a longer part of that message for better clarity. I incorrectly assumed that my full comment was enough to contextualise what I meant.
We've had kids accessing an Internet without any working age barriers for over 30 years now. There have been problems, be that grooming, Facebook parties and maybe addiction to TikTok. But being able to access adult content be that sexual or violent in nature doesn't really seem to have had much negative consequences. Sure I wouldn't want my 10 year old to see 2 girls 1 cup - but I reckon it wouldn't be the end of th…
These are some of the negative effects, what early sexual exposure can cause:
- unrealistic or harmful beliefs about sex, intimacy, and gender roles
- sex disconnected from intimacy, respect, consent
- anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, body image issues
- broken families (one parent missing), divorce
- problems with emotional regulation, impulse control
- attention control problems, aggression, withdrawal
I say, all of these are on the rise and are a big problem.
I'm genuinely curious. The parent buys the phone/laptop. And when little Timmy logs in to his phone the account should be in a family/group as a child account. What's with the obsession with actually verifying identity? Just make a web API available to determine if the current user is configured as a child account. Why isn't that enough to gate-keep access to adult content?
Timmy's friend is really popular in school.