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Re:Vermont Attorney General's dog sniffs out electronic stor... by harimau777 on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @08:12AM (#38841274)
Does the evidence support that idea? My understanding was that the information we have right now seems to suggest the opposite.
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Re:Vermont Attorney General's dog sniffs out electronic stor... by gadders on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @09:05AM (#38841677)
I've not seen any evidence either way, but I'm not sure you'd get an RCT of this past an ethics committee anywhere.

For now, I'm inclined to err on the side of caution and not enable perverts.

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Re:Vermont Attorney General's dog sniffs out electronic stor... by harimau777 on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:29AM (#38843445)
Just because it's not possible to study something directly doesn't mean that we can't study it. We could compare statistics in countries with different laws. Or we could look at studies of how pornography consumption influences non-deviant sexual behavior.
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Re:Vermont Attorney General's dog sniffs out electronic stor... by red-iron-pine on Wednesday January 03, 2024 @01:42PM (#38857898)
do video games make people shoot up schools? did marilyn manson lead to columbine?
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