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The reason the government has failed here is religion. Politicians don't want to wade into porn regulation because saying anything other than "we will outright
by cogman10 1y ago
The reason the government has failed here is religion.
Politicians don't want to wade into porn regulation because saying anything other than "we will outright ban it" will be construed as condoning something a large population chunk sees as immoral in all circumstances. And, obviously, an outright ban will upset the other large set of the population who has no moral qualms with porn.
Prostitution has exactly the same problem. Legislation that regulates sex work would be seen as condoning sex work. So instead, it's outright banned, which pushes sex work into a black market which endangers the sex workers and their patrons.
- hnpolicestate 1y ago[flagged]
- watwut 1y agoYeah, the totally brutally authoritarian western world compared to, I guess, where exactly?
- decimalenough 1y agoNo, it has a lot to do with religion. In places like Australia and Singapore it's explicitly the religious right that's pushing back on things like gay rights and, yes, porn.
- cogman10 1y agoThe UK is an oddball. I think "the online safety act" probably originated from more religiously minded people, but the angle was pretty strongly "Think of the children!". I can definitely say that the UK is pretty non-religious in general. For the US, though, it's absolutely a religion thing.
- burnt-resistor 1y agoThis is why all politicians pretend to be "good Christians" because of the undue power of group(s) of unreasonable people who share similar beliefs of magical thinking.