Spoken on behalf of the Government on BBC Radio 4's Any Questions, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury wants pornography gone from the UK on the basis of protecting women's and girls safety and fighting misogyny in society.
Bear in mind, this is separate from the Online Safety Act about to be enacted and the age verification plan any website not "suitable for children". Also bear in mind VPN's operating in the UK are also required to comply with the law.
The UK Government is about to go to war on pornography and appease both the feminists who believe it is exploitative and harmful to women while turning men into misogynists and the traditional conservatives who also believe it is harming masculinity, encouraging bachelorhood and contributing to the decline in birth rates.
"Do this or we will do it" is a pretty retarded threat. It means it would be tricky for them to pull it off, and they want the internet companies to do their work for them.
Also, you have to love the selective logic.
But, remember, if you ban abortion women will literally kill themselves in back alleys with coat hangers! If the logic was consistent, banning porn would just make it more exploitative.
Also, gotta love how everything is about "women and girls." Despite them not being able to define either of those, but that's a separate issue. No matter the issue, it's always, always, always "women most effected."
And, hey, at least this time the government is presumably threatening national companies, not international like they tried with Rumble.
I guess it's a good test case, if nothing else. I fully, fully expect it to backfire though. This will just be more anti-men nonsense, no matter how you feel about porn and its effects, they'll manage to blow this back onto the evil white men.
It's the government doing something, so it will likewise accomplish the opposite; more exploitation, more misogyny, more bachelorhood, more harming of masculinity. Worst of all worlds, they'll manage it somehow.
I don't know if you saw a debate recently on the Minister for Men being suggested by an MP who then got mocked by feminists. A male contributor on BBC Politics Live was defending the MP and was talking about male suicide as a serious social issue that needs to be tackled by Government. What did the other panellists do? Immediately change the subject to "what about the wage gap", "what about sexual harassment" and "what about women". In less than two minutes the issue of male suicide was completely derailed and the original male contributor was left to just agree to everything that was being said by everyone else.