PornHub blocks access to Utah (oh no that sux!)
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The porn sites also participate in all those parental control programs like Net Nanny. It's not in their interest to be seen peddling their product to kids. Kids getting access to porn is 100% on the parents.
Thanks to the algorithms they're neck and neck. Regardless of where you start the algorithms will show content that's more and more fucked up, with tranny porn being the ultimate destination. Back in the day a 13 year old could search for "big boobs" and that's what he would get without being led down a fucked up path.
/d/ shows otherwise. Internet porn will always lead to fucked up shit, and always has at least since the 90s.
/d/ is a 4chan board I assume? I don't know anything about that. What I can tell you is that when I started using the internet you had to search for whatever you wanted. I never came across any really weird shit back then because it would have never crossed my mind to search for that and algorithms that deliberately lead to that content were still a decade away.
for me it was always a matter of time. The more time you spend on the internet, the more likely you were to run into the weird shit. for reasonably social kids and teenagers, this was never a big deal.
for socially awkward and self-isolated kids, running into the weird shit was an inevitability.
I was that socially awkward and self-isolated kid. But then again I didn't have access to my own internet connected computer until I was 18, so the amount of porn I could consume was limited by the amount of time that I was home alone. It was probably a blessing in disguise.
To offer a diametric argument. Back in the day there were far less sites to begin with, meaning it was easier to just stumble upon fucked up shit the moment you walked out of certain lanes. One of my buddies found Asian Scat Porn on AOL by sheer accident trying to find flash games.
So while you weren't being deliberately lead to fucked shit, you were also not being protected from it at times too.
I feel like porn is more centralized now than it was back then. It seems to have followed the same process of discussion boards. Maybe I'm misremembering because it's been so long but I remember googling whatever I wanted and being led to a variety of sites. Now most of it is aggregated onto a small number of huge sites. It's like how discussion forums gave way to sites like Faggit on other huge social media companies.
Even if that were true I still wouldn't ever let my friend live that down and any time it was brought up, which would be often, the retelling would heavily suggest it wasn't an accident.
Come to think of it, this actually happens with someone I know where "japscat" is brought up for this very reason. It's amusing watching how easy it is winding the guy up about it.
These people think porn has no negative effects. ItS jUsT lIkE vIdEo GaMeS
Where in this thread is anyone saying that? Do you feel no shame at all strawmanning that hard?
Porn is a vice, just like videogames and alcohol. mild consumption can relieve stress and provide entertainment, but over-indulgence absolutely has negative effects.
Except it has been repeatedly proven that video games do not cause either violence or sexism as pedalled by either Jack Thompson or Anita Sarkeesian to name two individuals.