Russia bans Pornhub, YouPorn—tells citizens to “meet someone in real life” (in 2016)

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[–][deleted] 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (8 children)

That's good news.

[–]Drewski 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (7 children)

While I agree that porn is destructive and meeting someone in real life is much better, arbitrary censorship by the government is not the solution.

[–][deleted] 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

The government's job is to protect the nation and its people.

[–]Drewski 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

A lot of tyranny and injustice have been committed by governments under the guise of protecting their people. Telling us what we can or cannot do with our own bodies is not the governments job.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Its the only way to stop the epidemic. Of it wasnt for the government, smoking would be easy to access and still very common.

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

The govt FDA approved smoking. Smoking ads had doctor spokespersons.

The govt made it worse.

The people fixed that one.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The government made smoking extremely expensive and hard to obtain. Ads don't do much to help.

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

Soy take

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

And this was probably an excuse for other censorship tactics.

[–]Vigte 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

All the normies love talking about when things like a UBI experiment occur - or some country bans guns - they think it proves how the same system would work, around the world.

Bet they won't want to talk about this "experiment".

Better yet, they would dig as deep as it took, to find some way of saying "Well but that's Russia, not (insert country here)"

Liberal policy being drive by hypocrisy? No.... no way... never.

[–]Tom_BombadilBombadildo 2 insightful - 3 fun2 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

This was the inspiration for the band "Pussy Riot".

Actually, I made that up.

[–]useless_aether[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

it was the last straw. and they started the riots