Is life in the U.S.A really as catastrophic and terrible as the media makes it out to be?

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[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

The Pornhub ban is funny. Utah just made it legal specifically to sue websites that provide pornographic material to minors, pornhub had a fit and blocked Utah from access rather than make a system to check.

There's definitely criticisms of the Utah law that can be made concerning how vague it is. My primary criticism is it is ineffective at actually doing anything beyond being politically expedient. It does mean porn addicts in Utah will now have to use a VPN instead.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

My primary criticism is it is ineffective at actually doing anything

Your own comment contradicts this. They effectively banned porn hub without the backlash of banning porn hub. That's a huge win if you understand that porn use is adictive and harmful.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I think it's likely to be helpful to throw some extra barriers in there but the law isn't going to be able to actually stop minors from accessing pornography, hence it's more a political win than anything.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I think it's likely to be helpful to throw some extra barriers in there

Is that not exactly what the law did?

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Sort of. I'm not opposed to this law, but it's not particularly effective since the barriers thrown up are extremely easy to get around.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

If you are already looking for that particular website. But it prevents that website from being served up and pushed on people. An 8 year old who googles "naked girls" isn't going to be sent a link to porn hub. That's impactful.

[–]Alienhunter 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

That's not how it works as far as I know.

The 8 year old who searches for naked girls will still get the same links as everyone else. The Pornhub links just will redirect them to a page that says "not available in your state"

Every other website that didn't do what pornhub did will still be available.