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Porn sites have been there almost 20 years. Why it is problem right now? Is there extensive recent research about it? Or now we just have the capability?

• nick__m 1y ago
  I remember pop-up porn adds started to appears around 1995 or so and 1995 is 30 years away...
  • privatelypublic 1y ago
    I ember them showing up and then being limited to super shady sites PDQ. Which makes sense- since exposing minors to pornography was a crime, and got even more illegal somewhere in that time frame, along with the web becoming "professional" (whitehouse top level domain mixup stories anyone?), the honest pornography sites all started self-regulating and asking if somebody is an adult before anything naughty gets shown.
• deleted 1y ago
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• betaby 1y ago
  > Why it is problem right now? Push from the different generation? Late boomers got very puritan with age, also see themselves as more moral, again with age.
• burnt-resistor 1y ago
  Nope, not here. Perhaps you live in some totalitarian shithole where you lack privacy or haven't figured out how VPNs work.
• LorenPechtel 1y ago
  It's a "problem" because we are becoming a theocracy. There's no reasonable demonstration of harm and a very strong correlation between availability of pornography and a big reduction in sex crimes. The purported harms are due to blocking reasonable sex education, leaving teens with the equivalent of Hollywood being the only model of sex they see. The original study that was created to show the harms concluded they couldn't find any to anyone, even minors.