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Children should be deterred from looking at pornography. Watching pornography of normal acts with male or female anatomy I doubt will cause issues. But what about other nasty content? It's easy to fall down a rabbit hole and such content is available with just three words in google.

The internet is not a safe place and when a child watches obscene content that very well starts to warp their mind and perception. They hunt for further gratification and this can lead in to more murky content. Pornography can be malicious and internet pornography addiction is real too.

I am in favor of restricting content however for the reason that there really is nasty content which young children are discovering and it's leading them to grow up corrupt. If there was a way to divide the two but you can't, however the way it is it's either all or nothing.

Filter it, let a child hack around the filter expanding their computer skills and reward it. That it self is far more positive then being able to view all the content that is available. Innocence can be lost prematurely and that's disastrous for the child if it is lost.

Pornography nowadays isn't like it was during the MTV years which many will compare from.




> Children should be deterred

Yes, absolutely, but by the government?


The ISP -- The government should mandate ISPs to setup a filter that filters such results.

However that option should then be forced upon the customer asking if they wish to enable such service or not.


This would effectively give the ISP a list of naughty people who have requested porn.

This should be solved on the client side. Parents should install filters on their own computers.


But who then creates the filter software and not to say obeys Government's orders of wanting a backdoor.

That way the goverment gets a list of naughty people who have requested porn.

It's the chicken or the egg scenario.


> Watching pornography of normal acts with male or female anatomy I doubt will cause issues

It's not that simple. Not only is there habituation, but sex is something the brain reacts pretty strongly to. It can't be that neutral.

There are also the ethics of how porn is created - basically prostitution with a camera. And the social aspects of it all : intimacy as something banal, available at any time, completely separated from actual human relationships, and marketable.


who is to decide what is obscene and what is not?


Me. I declare censorship an absolute obscenity in a free society. There now that we have rendered that stupid question meaningless we can move on as a society.


I don't know who is to decide. But it shouldn't be children or pornographers.


Whoever pays for the internet.




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