There is a saying, “water always finds its path”. It is similar to the law of unintended consequences. It means that you can block it, but only temporarily, and it will eventually find a way around your block. Just as with prohibition, people will find a way around it. The article mentioned VPN, which a lot of people use anyways, but older folks may have a harder time setting it up.
The other work around will be going back to the future. This will increase traffic at strip clubs and prostitution. Getting men away from their computers and putting them in bars and clubs looking for their sex fix will end up increasing alcohol consumption, drug traffic, etc. The gangs will see the increased demand and you will see an increase in sex trafficking.
Then 10 years from now we will sit back and wonder how we got to this spot where drug and alcohol use are up, prostitution is up, and trafficking of minors is up.
So no, I do not “commend” the politicians on the decision, because the solution they created creates worse options.
I’d rather have some freako sitting in his basement looking at that crap than prowling around looking in windows and worse. Putting it on a private computer screen is far preferable to those seedy, smelly bookstores that attracted undesirables to the edge of neighborhoods in the old days.
But the right censors just like the left does, then they complain when there’s nothing but gay and TG stuff on the rampage. I’m not sure I ever had a discussion with my girls about it, because girls usually aren’t particularly visually interested, but I have with my sons and grandsons, and it’s always better to give them a choice rather than have them seek out this stuff in rebellion.
“There is a saying, “water always finds its path”.”
So, would you advocate legalizing murder, child prostitution, etc.? Anywhere we can make it more difficult for the perverts the better. Simply saying that people will find another route is not a logical answer and frankly isn’t accurate.
Some people always see the dark clouds and not the rainbow.