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Re:Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content by tido99 on Thursday April 20, 2023 @01:37AM (#35636771)
Which "single culture" is that? I disagree with censorship and morality policing as much as you seem to but opposition to porn is the norm worldwide across nearly every culture.

A 2019 Gallup poll found that 61% of American respondents believed pornography was "morally unacceptable." That's nearly twice the share that thought smoking marijuana was immoral, and higher than abortion. Somewhere around half of American women support banning it altogether, as well as a not insignificant share of men: https://ifstudies.org/ifs-admin/resources/lehmanfigure2-w640...

(IFS is a biased source here, but the surveys they cite are not)

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Re:Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content by Sakos on Thursday April 20, 2023 @01:48AM (#35636821)
And probably 99% of those 61% watch porn. Polls aren't worth anything in regards to some topics.
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Re:Imgur Updates TOS, Banning NSFW Content by TeMPOraL on Thursday April 20, 2023 @06:08AM (#35638080)
> Which "single culture" is that?

Obviously, USA-ian. The poll you quoted and linked deals with what Americans think, which is kind of reinforcing GP's point: the current treatment of pornography around the world, especially on the Internet, is in large part a US protestant/puritan cultural export.

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