Re:Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content
by voidhorse on Thursday April 20, 2023 @12:12AM
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Amen. Sex is bad but violence and the weekly mass shooting circuit are great and good for the kids. God bless America.
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When you have lobby groups like the NRA, but no lobby group for the porn industry, this is what happens.
Re:Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content
by dragonwriter on Thursday April 20, 2023 @12:43AM
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The porn industry has lobby groups. The main industry one is the Free Speech Coalition, but the Adult Performance Artist Guild, the porn actors labor union, does lobbying (sometimes in conjunction with FSC where their interests coincide), too.
They don’t have nearly the resources, grassroots base, or supply of Russian money the NRA has had, OTOH, neither is in the degree of legal mess the NRA is currently in, either.
Re:Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content
by 0zemp1c on Thursday April 20, 2023 @12:40AM
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Well it's usually the porn addicted incels behind the trigger, so they're related I suppose
Re:Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content
by midoridensha on Thursday April 20, 2023 @04:49AM
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As another poster pointed out, it's not just the US, though with the US's economic dominance it's a huge factor. China and middle eastern nations don't like sexual content either. Basically, the governments in these places want you to concentrate on the state-sanctioned religion instead of relieving your biological urges with porn. So in the middle east, they want you thinking about Islam all day long. In the US, they want you thinking about Jesus n' Guns. In China, they want you thinking about the glory of Xi and the CCP. I'm pretty surprised actually that Russia hasn't cracked down on porn yet.
> I'm pretty surprised actually that Russia hasn't cracked down on porn yet.
That's just not how Russia rolls. Simple things like low fuel prices, alcohol and porn are what prevents the population from complaining.
Russians highly value internal peace and will not actively go against anything that helps to secure it.