These retards think banning porn will fix the West’s collapsing birthrates.
Honestly, I think that's still giving them too much credit. It's often not even about birthrates, sometimes it's as simple as "porn is icky" and "degeneracy bad." Which, sure, fine. But it's literally feels over reals, which is ironic since it's coming from "our" side of the aisle on this one.
Degeneracy is bad. But ending online anonymity and free speech isn't the answer, and it's not even worth the cost. Want to stop porn? Make the argument, tell people why it's bad, tell parents they should be keeping a closer eye on things. There will never be a perfect answer, sadly...just like there isn't with guns. Someone will find a way to misuse guns no matter what, someone who shouldn't have access to porn will get porn, no matter what. And shit parents who wittingly or unwittingly provide access to such things will always exist.
But we can't make laws on feels, and we can't violate people's rights, on either guns or speech. We have to be pragmatic. Any bill banning VPNs or requiring IDs for the internet should never be allowed off the starting line, no matter how good the rest of it is. And if it's built on such a shit foundation it's usually not good anyway.
The only thing they would be able to get away with is banning live action porn production for safety and trafficking reasons, anything else WILL be considered tyranny and will be ignored, challenged in court, and cause voter bleed.
Honestly, I think that's still giving them too much credit. It's often not even about birthrates, sometimes it's as simple as "porn is icky" and "degeneracy bad." Which, sure, fine. But it's literally feels over reals, which is ironic since it's coming from "our" side of the aisle on this one.
Degeneracy is bad. But ending online anonymity and free speech isn't the answer, and it's not even worth the cost. Want to stop porn? Make the argument, tell people why it's bad, tell parents they should be keeping a closer eye on things. There will never be a perfect answer, sadly...just like there isn't with guns. Someone will find a way to misuse guns no matter what, someone who shouldn't have access to porn will get porn, no matter what. And shit parents who wittingly or unwittingly provide access to such things will always exist.
But we can't make laws on feels, and we can't violate people's rights, on either guns or speech. We have to be pragmatic. Any bill banning VPNs or requiring IDs for the internet should never be allowed off the starting line, no matter how good the rest of it is. And if it's built on such a shit foundation it's usually not good anyway.
The only thing they would be able to get away with is banning live action porn production for safety and trafficking reasons, anything else WILL be considered tyranny and will be ignored, challenged in court, and cause voter bleed.