How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet
How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet
Papers please: for millions of Americans, accessing online pornography now requires a government ID. It could have global implications for the future of the web.
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How could American politicians be so against pornography, when so many keep getting caught with prostitutes?
Typical. Rules for thee I guess.
They pander to the Christian nationalists for their votes. They just want power, they don’t actually hold those values.
Neither do Christians, it’s the Billionaires. Need to maximize reproduction of the slaves.
Because we live in a ravenous corrupt oligarchy barely able to keep the appearance of a functioning democracy.
And kids
There's probably a name for this just like the "author's barely disguised fetish". Usually when you see politicians campaigning this hard on topics like those, it's probably because they themselves are doing it
Doublethink is a core tenant
Tenet
And that tenet lives in their heads rent-free.
That filthy dirty freeloading communist tenant tenet!
They're against pornography, not prostitutes. There's a difference, I guess.
They are also against prostitutes. Sex work is work! Criminalizing it only serves to endanger those who are most at risk.
And yet they love the man you cheated on his wife with a porn star.
I suppose that's one way to generalize an entire country.
Just the people who are enacting these laws
It's entirely about loyalty and institutionalized stratification. Laws are meant to constrain those outside the party, while those within the party are given a lot of latitude.
Bind, not protect, protect, but not bind.
when so many keep getting caught with
prostitutessex workers?FTFY. If you've ever worked for a living, you're a prostitute - just like the rest of us.
because they're conservative, and that's a thing cons do for some reason. google "i know it when i see it" to get some history on how batshit insane it gets.
The politicians who are against it are the vast minority, they're just extremely vocal and irritating.
You just answered it... ban pornography. It doesn't ban prostitution.
Pornography and prostitution are different.
One is information, allowing you to dream (maybe of stupid things), another is in the physical world.
I don't want to think a lot of these parallels, but I've noticed that people close to actual government bureaucracies are in general very sceptical of imagined things against physical.
Among other things, consuming pornography doesn't make you feel powerful, while a prostitute is a real human working for you.
Also 30s' propaganda had traits clearly aimed at, eh, sexually dissatisfied youth.
So maybe it's just about feeling their own power, and maybe it's about returning that device of affecting minds. I dunno