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The idiocracy has won. AV is coming into force across multiple countries — many around the same time. We'll be forced to verify your age, and we already know we'll lose almost all our users in the process.

Only a few sites like ours are being targeted, so porn will remain available everywhere else. Minors won’t be safer — just redirected to social media platforms or darker, unregulated corners of the internet.

This is the result of an ongoing moral panic, carried by dishonest ideologues, opportunistic politicians, and a media class that thrives on fear and outrage.

We're witnessing censorship disguised as “protection,” incompetence dressed up as virtue, and a total collapse of rational policymaking. And everyone will pay the price.

Not a news material per se, but an opinion piece from the large player in the industry, reflecting on current law changes, media coverage, logics behind AV push et cetera. It needs not to be taken as a single source of truth, but an interesting inside from their end of the deal.

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I didn't put NSFW tag because it's a discussion on pornography without graphic details of any kind.

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[–] evenglow@lemmy.world 80 points 1 day ago (2 children)

No easy access to legal porn means illegal porn becomes more profitable. That's very bad.

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Prohibition and the war on drugs sure worked out well when they were implemented. Surely this time ...

... I mean getting rid of standards and quality control ... and testing can't possibly have adverse effects here. Ah well. We're speed running regression in just about everything else: what's one more offering for the pyre?

Surely the children will thank us for ... saving them ... when they are older.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

It's like drugs if you could Ctrl-c Ctrl-v an identical copy of your drugs Into existence out of thin air

This is a super bad idea. You think they're gonna fear monger off of the inevitable result of the problems they are creating?

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

It's like drugs and alcohol in that the urge is there just no easy and legal access to the same outlets. In the case of porn - I'd say it's gonna get bad.

Will they fear monger? Have they wasted a single opportunity to do so yet? I'd be hard pressed to point at a time where we had stopped.

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I trust Pornhub too not post illegal porn on their website. What happens when you throw everything, including safe for work books that talk about gay topics or anything Christians don't like into one big bin called illegal?

[–] yggstyle@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

...or anything Christians don't like into one big bin called illegal?

Not to lump everyone into the same boat but I'll take the low hanging fruit for the obvious low blow:

I'll tell you one thing that those churches seem to like that will definitely not see an uptick as we make legal outlets less accessible....