Posted on 03/18/2024 4:34:21 PM PDT by nickcarraway
WHY would any company fight this?????
Unless they want to corrupt children.
But the tobacco companies don't have a lot of room to complain, since they are highly subsidized by the government.
Plus, if you look at history, widespread smoking only happened in the U.S. since the government promoted smoking.
Porn addiction, like any other addiction, produces tolerance with repeated occurrence.
The brain becomes trapped in a futile and often endless pursuit of reward.
It leads to successive decline into deviance, eventually child porn.
This is one of the best, though not the only reasons to outlaw porn.
Oops, you caught them.
Yeah, but she uses the centimeter side of the ruler to make you feel special.
Lots of people of FR sure know a lot about porn…
Only those over 35. The kids will get in and the old men wont
I just saw that post. It reminded me of a National Lampoon magazine photo page on naked trigonometry. “This is a right angle. This in an acute angle. This is an even cuter angle.”
You seem to be trying to make a point which itself deviates a bit.
The reasonable conclusion derived from what I posted—outlawing porn—is the only intelligent response we can have to the existence of porn.
You show ID to a clerk. They make note of your birthday and then return your ID to you.
With PornHub, a third-party verification service is required where your information is stored on-line.
So, don't look at porn, I get it, but if you think this is going to end with porn sites, you're wrong. PornHub today "for the children" and Twitter tomorrow "for the children."
This being said, I think unlimited access to hardcore pornography is harmful to kids (as is social media) but once you hand over freedom to the government, they'll never give it back.
The government WILL use this against the people. I say no law is required. Learn to parent. Device level should equate to an “is adult” flag, nothing more but even that is crap. Every progrwm from now to forever has to implement this? How will you ban outside links that dont implement this check? This is an effort to further destroy freedom of information. Don’t kid yourselves, this has absolutely nothing to do with protecting children.
If you have multiple user ID's on one device, that could work, unless grandpa forgets to sign out after using the machine. Then the device would have to require signing back on every time the machine goes dark or idle, and make it illegal for grandma and grandpa to have their user ID and password or pin written down somewhere the kids can't find. Good luck with that.
This is presented as though it’s a problem.
LOL I remember that little blurb and laughed at it then, too.
This being said, I think unlimited access to hardcore pornography is harmful to kids (as is social media) but once you hand over freedom to the government, they'll never give it back.
You seem very conflicted.
Government is a necessary evil, but it is an evil. Absolute libertarianism is anarchy. I don’t want overbearing government and I sure as hell don’t want anarchy. There is a balance which I believe is true conservatism.
Freedom in a society is not the right to do evil. I hate freedom but love liberty.
One can think both that porn is bad for kids and third party verification for adults to access websites is also bad.
Nothing conflicting at all.
So you'd be happy giving your real name, your age, your address, and other personal identifying information to some purple-haired tech worker to post on Free Republic?
Or would you prefer posting here somewhat anonymously as frogjerk?
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