Popular porn sites now display unproven health warnings thanks to Texas law::Popular online adult film sites in Texas are posting health warnings about watching porn, despite the fact a law requiring them to do so was blocked in August.

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    10 months ago

    I love how republican law makers who want small government and non governmental interference and stop interfering the second it’s something they are against.

    Really shows their true colors. They don’t give a shit about small government, they LOVE government interference. They just don’t want you to stop them using slavery, they just don’t want you to know about practices in slaughter houses, they just want to be able to pollute every part of the world except where they live and they just want to be able to tell you how to live your life.

    Is that so much to ask?

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    10 months ago

    Because I didn’t see it written in the comments yet, here is the warning:

    “The sites display unproven claims that porn impairs ‘human brain development’ and ‘increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, and child pornography.’”

    • KrummsHairyBalls@lemmy.ca
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      10 months ago

      and ‘increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, and child pornography.’"

      Idk, when I’m watching adult porn, I don’t think to myself “wow, I wish these were children instead”.

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    10 months ago

    This sounds like it’s going to further erode people’s trust in the health systems and the advice of doctors.

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      10 months ago

      Who was out there discrediting doctors during the pandemic? The exact same people pushing for those kinds of laws and making those bogus health claims.

      It’s always projection with the right.

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    10 months ago

    Masturbation makes hair grow on the palms of your hands - it’s science people.

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    10 months ago

    If you’re a resident of Texas, please be aware that watching porn is bad for you, jacking off will make you blind and that you’re a filthy person for coming here. If you’re from the rest of the world, why are you reading this instead of watching porn?

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    10 months ago

    “unproven” because it’s Texan. Fuck The Verge, Internet porn addiction is as real as those beetles that have sex with beer bottles because they’re brown and perfectly glossy like an ideal mate.

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    10 months ago

    Remember when people on the Internet generally universally agreed that it was bad when the government (or anyone) regulated or censored the Internet?

    I want those times back. It isn’t any better whether it is because of left wing causes like “misinformation” or “hate speech” or right wing ones like the thing this article is about or “piracy” or “terrorist propaganda”.

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      10 months ago

      That was before someone on Twitter’s best addition to the conversation was to call me “a caribou diaper baby” … which while a very creative insult … is pretty ridiculous conduct.

      I agree the government regulating speech is a fine line. We don’t need real information being suppressed, but we also need a way (with checks and balances) to shut people that are entirely full of shit (or people that if the Internet was a real establishment would be kicked out for being deranged and unhinged) up.

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      10 months ago

      See those downvotes? Yes, that’s because those times were conditioned by the Internet being a niche thing. You can’t expect such adequacy today even here.

      That aside, legally fighting “misinformation” is outright obvious censorship, not even trying to pretend to be something else.