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Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by ch4s3 on Friday July 10, 2020 @11:43AM (#23792700)
> There has been an escalation of porn compared to the 70s, but so has also every from of consumption and consumerism. What is not clear is if peoples ability to adapt and filter out the extreme aspects has also increased. Violence in movies are also more extreme. As is violence in music, violence in news flows, and violence in the messages of peoples social communities.

And yet, all across the OECD since ~1990 violent crime is down, teen pregnancy is down, and on and on and on. For all of the pearl clutching about the morality and decency of this stuff it doesn't seem to be ruining society.

Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by MayeulC on Friday July 10, 2020 @01:12PM (#23793751)
There is likely other factors at play.

You can't really conclude that "this stuff" is harmless just looking at the tendencies. I agree though that I my pick for what is ruining society would be something else...

Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by slg on Friday July 10, 2020 @02:27PM (#23794666)
>For all of the pearl clutching about the morality and decency of this stuff it doesn't seem to be ruining society.

I won't blame free porn for this, but I mean have you looked at American society in recent months? It seems well on the path to being ruined.

Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by ben_w on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:08PM (#23795117)
I agree America looks that way, but how different are reality and news? For good and ill. I get the impression that the ratings-grabbing parts of news alternate between chest-thumping tribalism and nut-picking.
Re:France to introduce controversial age verification system... by slg on Friday July 10, 2020 @03:29PM (#23795359)
America is going to have by far the worst handling of the pandemic compared to similar western democracies. We had a real world test as a society and we failed. That isn't just the news fudging things to grab viewers.