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[–] BaconIsAVeg@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We already have decades of free online porn and everyone is fine. Why would we try to limit porn usage online now?

32 years ago we were passing around 320x240 interlaced jpeg's on floppy disks downloaded from a 4800baud BBS. You had to be James fucking Bond to view that stuff on the family computer in the living room, or in the back of the computer lab. I remember sitting at the back of lab with some friends watching an image load of a disk and trying to figure out which hole his dick was in. That's how slow it was.

Today, you can get streaming 4k videos on your 7 inch computer while you're sitting at the back of the bus, or the back of class. I'd say accessibility to minors has greatly improved over the past 3 decades. Regulators are (as usual) playing catch-up with technology.

[–] argv_minus_one@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Before Internet video porn, kids were finding their dads' Playboys and VHS tapes.

And before that, people living in cabins or caves had sex in full view of their children because there was nowhere else to do it.

Children seeing adults bang is not even remotely new, and nothing overly bad ever came of it. The only reason anyone is concerned with this is because their screwed-up religion taught them to be afraid of sex, and that is not an adequate justification for compromising innocent adults' privacy.