I think the government being able to set requirements to visit websites is more harmful
This. It's very likely many inside and out of the government behind this don't give the slightest fuck about porn but know it's a viable tip of the wedge to push wider control tools on the general public who will end up too incensed to think about the consequences correctly.
Sprinkle some pearl clutching and "for the kids" in the appropriate places and you'll have various groups of the public immediately marching in lockstep with others beside them doing so to not be harassed for questioning The Message and its latest Kafka trap.
The moment the infrastructure is in place to target and control the publics access to certain parts of the web the moment that follows will be a list of what parts to do next. Do note the wording I went with there. The list will quickly appear because it already exists and won't be afforded any debate time.
That's the goal. Not the window dressing surrounding any porn bans and anyone who thinks they won't find themselves affected by these tools in the future because they don't use porn, or have certain political alignments, or are of a certain race is woefully mistaken given various attempts on both sides of the Atlantic so far.
That's true any time someone goes on about the children. I feel like people that care about children are busy protecting their children. People that just "care about children" are more suspect.
This. It's very likely many inside and out of the government behind this don't give the slightest fuck about porn but know it's a viable tip of the wedge to push wider control tools on the general public who will end up too incensed to think about the consequences correctly.
Sprinkle some pearl clutching and "for the kids" in the appropriate places and you'll have various groups of the public immediately marching in lockstep with others beside them doing so to not be harassed for questioning The Message and its latest Kafka trap.
The moment the infrastructure is in place to target and control the publics access to certain parts of the web the moment that follows will be a list of what parts to do next. Do note the wording I went with there. The list will quickly appear because it already exists and won't be afforded any debate time.
That's the goal. Not the window dressing surrounding any porn bans and anyone who thinks they won't find themselves affected by these tools in the future because they don't use porn, or have certain political alignments, or are of a certain race is woefully mistaken given various attempts on both sides of the Atlantic so far.
That's true any time someone goes on about the children. I feel like people that care about children are busy protecting their children. People that just "care about children" are more suspect.