Yes I agree the way the UK is going about this is fucking silly and unlikely to even work, however I haven’t seen much debate about the motive behind the act.
I feel like this community has generally been pretty critical of the porn industry and particularly the effect of the massive proliferation of easy to access internet porn on young men (“porn brain” was a pretty common term around here). But when the UK tries to ban it I’ve suddenly seen a lot of defense of teenagers right to see pics or boobs on the internet.
I would also point out this is an ML dominated community, most people here are pretty fine with socialist governments censoring content or restricting access to good that are deemed harmful to the common good. But I have noticed a trend on here where when a liberal capitalist government tries to do the same thing everyone suddenly start sounding very libertarian about porn/booze/slop movies/what have you.
Idk if this is looked at badly or whatever, but I really don’t care if under 18s look at porn/naked people. It’s normal for teens to be sexually active and I don’t really see how porn is any worse then that. It’s not a super principled, ml position or anything but yea :shrug-outta-hecks: idc if teens look at porn.
I think better sex ed would fix this. I don’t know much about what it’s supposed to look like but I was given a very basic run down of the physical piv act and that was it. I don’t remember learning about kink, or consent, or any of that. Just penis in vagina, sperm in egg.
Yeah. Porn and stuff should definitely be kept to adults-only spaces of the internet, but also, we shouldn’t be making access more difficult than just requiring people to provide (or lie about) their age. If someone says they’re a kid in an adults-only space,
, and if any adults knowingly interact with minors in that space, 
x1000, but I think that should be the extent of the moderation.
Breaking the rules is a time-honored teenage tradition, and I think we should allow kids the privacy to break rules without having a digital surveillance record keeping track of all the rules they broke, if that makes sense.
My stance on this has been consistent since my own teenage years (long ago). I just don’t chime in on these discussions very often.
Tbf I wasn’t that interested in mainstream porn when I was a teen anyway - I was more into illustrations and written smut. I get that there’s an argument for mainstream porn being harmful and exploitative, but I don’t think digital surveillance is the solution to that problem.
Unfortunately, I believe most of the people who want to ban porn also want to ban sex education. Giving people good, free, education would go a long way. People shouldn’t be learning about sex from pornhub.
One of my friends was saying like too many of her male partners try to choke her during sex, or to casually do some anal, and she thinks that’s just stuff they pick up in porn and think is normal.
Actually trying to make things better is never the point. The point is to label people as “bad” so that punishment and exploitation are justified.