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There was a NYT article a couple weeks ago about Chinese morality police doing mass arrests of erotica authors, https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/world/asia/c
by perihelions 1y ago
There was a NYT article a couple weeks ago about Chinese morality police doing mass arrests of erotica authors,
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/world/asia/china-boys-love-women.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/world/asia/china-boys-lov... ("Chinese Police Detain Dozens of Writers Over Gay Erotic Online Novels") [note article contains large images of erotica novel covers]
But you'd *expect* that of the PRC; the US, wow, has it ever fallen fast and fallen hard.
- useless_eater 1y ago[flagged]
- TimorousBestie 1y agoYes, I believe that ten year olds should only have parent-supervised interactions with the internet.
- olivermuty 1y agoWith random lawsuits as a sort of offhand censorship of <thing you dont personally like>..?? Its the parents job to curate access to the inernet. I say that as a father of three.
- useless_eater 1y ago[flagged]
- tomhow 1y agoPlease don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- _Algernon_ 1y agoWhy is it everyone else's responsibility to keep it out of the hands of 10 year olds by being 24/7 surveilled by the government, instead of the parents' responsibility to regulate internet access for their 10-year old? Not that gay erotica seems that harmful, even for a 10 year old. They probably don't seek it out as much as you thing they do. If they do, it is probably a beneficial step in their development given what they learn about themselves in a safer environment than the probable alternative.
- useless_eater 1y ago[flagged]
- _Algernon_ 1y ago[flagged]
- tomhow 1y ago> Fucking troll. That comment was unacceptable and I replied to them to say so, but it's also not OK to comment like this on HN, no matter what you're replying to. If we want others to be better we need to be better ourselves. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- tomhow 1y ago> I pray that you will find God and recover from whatever trauma you have been through. This is not an acceptable comment on HN, as it's a disguised personal attack. Please read the guidelines and make an effort to observe them in future. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- dyauspitr 1y agoBecause just like the argument with social media in my opinion it’s better to have governmental regulation on these things so millions of households don’t have to have the same argument with their kids and kids not on social media platforms don’t get left out of a significant percentage of teenage life effectively socially stunting them.
- EasyMark 1y agothat is the responsibility of parents. and why is gay erotica any worse than straight? Kids have sought sex information out once they got curious about sex and since there have been things written down and humans learned to read.
- mattnewton 1y agoIf that were truly the goal we would either need a great firewall style internet filter or blocks on devices available to minors, since nothing about this approach works for websites outside of the US jurisdiction. If you read the article there is a direct quote from Vought, one of the chief project 2025 architects, about how this is really a path to banning pornography. Which the project 2025 folks believe includes any discussion of lgbtq+ lifestyles.
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- ndsipa_pomu 1y agoFar more damage happens by letting 10 year olds have access to firearms
- djrj477dhsnv 1y agoThat's a decision for the parents of that kid to make, not the government.
- mimi89999 1y agoWho is responsible for preventing a child from running into a busy road and being hit by a car? And why, on the internet, does that responsibility seem to fall on everyone else?
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- zeroonetwothree 1y ago[flagged]
- perihelions 1y agoBut that is US law, as of literally just this week! > "In fact, under the laws that the Supreme Court just upheld, prosecutors in Tennessee and South Dakota can even reach across state lines and prosecute writers on FELONY charges for a single paragraph of sexually-explicit writing on my site that they think "harmed" kids in their states, facing up to FIFTEEN years in prison, for failing to implement ID-checks on my dinky little free WordPress site."
- gamblor956 1y ago[flagged]
- kurthr 1y agoI think that's the point of the article. The Supreme Court has Ruled: "prosecutors in Tennessee and South Dakota can even reach across state lines and prosecute writers on FELONY charges for a single paragraph of sexually- explicit writing on my site that they think "harmed" kids in their states, facing up to FIFTEEN years in prison, for failing to implement ID-checks on my dinky little free WordPress site."
- 0xbadcafebee 1y agoThe Supreme Court is just doing their part as a part of Project 2025 (which is about 50% accomplished already btw)
- jeremywho 1y agoIs there a breakdown of this anywhere? ie, something that shows what was proposed in p2025 and what policies/procedures/orders have pushed a particular part of the plan forward?
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- teamspirit 1y agohttps://www.project2025.observer https://www.project2025.observer