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Ofcom fines porn site provider £630,000 over failed age checks (www.bbc.co.uk)
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[–] 89 points 4 months ago (8 children)

How about they fine the parents who are failing to parent their kids?

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  • [+] -52 points 4 months ago (7 children)

    not all parents are savvy enough to know how to do it. not all parents have the parenting skills to do it, because they were not taught them in the first place. not all parents can always monitor their teen kids 24/7, because they might work multiple jobs and teens have (and rightly so) unsupervised time.

    also, you can teach them how many times you want that porn will fry their brains, but good luck reasoning at a logical level with a horny teen. Even before internet we managed to find and pass around porn mags, so it's as pointless as the war on drugs.

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  • [–] 43 points 4 months ago* (3 children)

    Porn will not fry anyones brain, lol.

    Even before internet we managed to find and pass around porn mags, so it’s as pointless as the war on drugs.

    In practice it's pointless, but in its reasoning it's actively harmful because it's an attack on healthy sex self-education.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    I would say it's a pretty big stretch to describe most of the porn out there as "Healthy" though I know quite a few people have attempted to move in that direction. Still, your point has merit. People masturbate, that is normal and healthy, and they WILL find ways to enhance that experience. This refusal to accept normal, healthy human sexuality is sick and self-harming.

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  • [–] 10 points 4 months ago

    I was super into porn from like the age of 13. Did it benefit me? Not really. Did it turn me into a sex maniac? Not hardly. I even broke up with a girl because she wanted to "enhance the relationship" and I didn't want to get physically attached to someone I wasn't really in love with.

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  • [–] 13 points 4 months ago

    And their kids are not my problem. I had a vasectomy I did my part. I don't want the responsibility of raising and protecting a kid so I'm not having one.. The government's part if anything is to invest in educating parents on how to protect their kids online in the modern age, and use the slew of parental controls available on every platform. If you're going to buy your kid a $1,000 device with internet access, you should probably like actually monitor what they do with it. The same as you do. If you have alcohol in the house or firearms in the house or anything else that's potentially dangerous in the hands children.

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