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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by ttt0 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @08:39AM (#26554304)
> American attitudes towards pornography really irk me. It's just as much free speech as any other speech.

First, it's not just Americans. Second, it's not free speech and it never was. People who came up with free speech supported obscenity laws. The main purpose of free speech is to ensure that you can criticize the people in power.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by kayodelycaon on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:50AM (#26554938)
Obscenity laws started in 1873. Well after the Constitution. The Supreme Court has steadily pushed the bar higher since it was created.
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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by ttt0 on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:07AM (#26555155)
And since when do we have pornography as we know it right now?

I'm almost 100% sure that if you went back in time and showed them furry porn, you'd be thrown in prison. If you're lucky.

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Re:Microsoft in talks to buy Discord for more than $10B by kayodelycaon on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @10:13AM (#26555250)
Regardless of moving goal posts, I don't buy this argument.

If we went back in the last century, they'd throw me in an asylum for being bipolar. Heck, I'd probably be forcibly sterilized due to the US being the first country to support and implement eugenics.

Violations of civil liberties in the US have always existed to great extremes.

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