How "Free" P*rn Sites Really Work And Their Secretive Owners
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I'm anti-porn. I'm also anti-porn-bans, and I've said this repeatedly.
Porn bans are a foot in the door for ending online anonymity, which in turn rolls back a ton of the progress we've made culturally recently.
As hilarious as it is, I think a "porn ban" would drastically damage the rightwing movement...not because they're reliant on porn, but because a lot of if is online.
"All." Again, that's massive, and hugely damaging to free speech. Porn bans are an absolute trap, and the people cheering them on really need to look at things, and look at places that have online verification.
That wouldn't be the case if they were supply-side focused. As you said, the current anti-porn agenda is just part of a larger push to expand state surveillance. It doesn't have to be done that way though. It's done that way because the people in charge don't care about effectively combatting porn, only consent manufacturing for their surveillance agenda.
Porn regulation is the foot in the door. An actual ban would have no impact on anonymity. Just a lot of sites being shut down by the DOJ.
But like you say, porn is just a convenient tool. The real intent is the de-anonymization.