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People not politicians

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Anonymous #2 11w

Legal pornography is first amendment protected speech. But my point isn’t really about porn specifically, but about speech criminalization and censorship in general. Censorship usually starts with things like criminalization of pornography and then progresses into other forms of speech. That’s what we should really be worried about.

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Anonymous OP 11w

Right but porn promote a horrible addiction which has been link to being worse than any drug Porn allows for human trafficking A false sense of dopamine rush Most kids watch porn starting at 12

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Anonymous #1 11w

Right. I‘m not denying that porn is addictive, and I’m not saying children should have access to it (they absolutely SHOULD NOT). What I’m saying is that, setting those issues aside for a second, that porn is protected speech, and given that republican politicians have floated restrictions on certain kinds of speech (e.g. anything remotely related to DEI) that laws like these could be utilized as a jumping off point for restricting other kinds of speech.

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Anonymous OP 11w

Yk top democrats in 2018 made a bill and its pass unanimously during a trump turn

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Anonymous #1 11w

What benefit does porn have I love my first amendment but I think everyone can agree with we just ban porn we will be fine

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Anonymous OP 11w

I‘m honestly someone who is against the distribution of commercial pornography online entirely. However, an outright ban or centralized collection of ID collection represent very real first and fourth amendment issues and/or potential problems that are unaddressed by the current policy and open up direct pathways for future abuse.

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Anonymous OP 11w

Just because I point out the consequences of a specific bill doesn’t make me „pro porn“ or whatever, it’s just a recognition that these issues have more depth to them than what’s portrayed in corporate media.

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Anonymous OP 11w

Right that’s why I only said porn and only that

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Anonymous #1 11w

What do you define porn as specifically? And just „knowing it when you see it“ isn’t an enforceable legal standard. Definition is necessary to understand what is banned and what isn’t. The issue is that a legal definition won’t really ever be all-encompassing all potential pornography. And what about sexual (but not pornographic) content? Where’s the line there?

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Anonymous OP 11w

The issue is without an achievable black-and-white enforcement standard, the line can be pushed further and further, even into types of speech that most people wouldn’t classify as porn. But once it crosses into that territory, the floodgates on restricting speech are opened because precedent for it exists.

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Anonymous OP 11w

Porn isn’t banned in these states, you know that right?

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