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Cake day: July 3rd, 2023

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  • Requiring age verification for porn is such a stupid idea. Firstly, what’s the definition of “porn”? Should people be blocked from looking at Michelangelo’s David? Where precisely is the line between what’s porn and what isn’t, and why should anybody have the right to impose that? Secondly, it’s unenforceable. On any website where people can submit content, they can submit porn that children might see. Should we block them all, then? That goes for all social media. It goes for anywhere people can leave comments/reviews. It goes for every basket-weaving forum. Since it’s obviously impossible to make a dent, why bother at all? And what about Google Images? What about sites with generative AI? Websites aren’t the only porn on the Internet either. I torrented porn when I was 13. Discord exists. Video games exist. What’s stopping people just making their own and sharing it? Absolutely boneheaded idea. It’s so stupid, that it makes me think the real reason is more nefarious, and “saving the children” is just propaganda.