not to use this thread as a soapbox but like, I kind of feel like there needs to be a more honest and open discussion about the anti-porn movement, because I fear anti-porn people have gone completely insane, and with the policies and things they wanna push I fear it will the death of anonymity and free-speech online as what they are proposing is downright Orwellian and will lead us down a surveillance state.
I am not saying you have to support sex work or the porn industry or be on board the LGBTQ+, but I just will like to note that porn has always been used as the canary in the coal mine when it comes to censorship and I fear that if we don't talk about it, I fear there gonna get their way and its gonna come for all of us. like, look at what's happening to payment processors and these AVS digital ID laws, politicians and corporations are not gonna stop at porn, there gonna keep censoring things they don't like, even if you are anti-porn there will have to admit that this is getting a bit much.
(I am just gonna say digital ID as that's what most of these laws are)
I will say I wonder if there are any Ulterior motives for some of these Digital ID laws, like for France, right now France and the UK are in deep political instability and trust for these governments is at an all-time low
(France is going through some pretty extreme riots right now) and don't get me started with the UK and its disastrous online safety bill. USA right now in some states, there is a transgender-moral panic in some of these states they are known to target certain minority groups, and as the
EFF said
"There are tens of millions of U.S. residents
without a form of government-issued identification. They could also be kept offline if age verification is required. These are primarily lower-income people who are
often already marginalized, and for whom the internet may be a critical part of life. " which makes me wonder if this is an attempt at trying to get rid of certain people off the internet.
I don't how this is gonna come across, but I am just looking at the facts and just trying to say how I see them. you are free to disagree with me but I hope you consider the facts I present here