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Re:Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom by thriftwy on Saturday April 06, 2024 @05:07PM (#39955546)
> sexual material harmful to minors

As a minor I have accessed sexual material all the time and I can assure you I was not harmed.

I wonder why fake news regulations do not cover claims like these.

Re:Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom by moonchild on Saturday April 06, 2024 @05:45PM (#39955875)
Respectfully:

1. I think censorship laws are abhorrent

2. It can be very difficult to tell what effect media has on you, and just because you do not (say) find yourself traumatised or find that your perceptions have been overtly altered does not mean you have not been negatively affected. And you will certainly never be unaffected by anything you experience or do. This is something that I've become more sensitive to and aware of as I've gotten older. And further, it is only through this sensitivity and awareness, and acceptance of the fact that I cannot just decide by fiat how things will affect me, that I have gained some measure of control.

Re:Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom by thriftwy on Saturday April 06, 2024 @06:00PM (#39956016)
Why is it my problem that you, a different human being, have control issues? Perhaps your hardware is faulty and should be selected away from the gene pool. Why is that a reason to make my life worse?

Anyways it's better to get you hooked up on porn than on drive-by shootings or almost any other anti-social behavior.

It is not provable that I was negatively affected by perceptions of I say I wasn't.

Re:Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom by samus on Saturday April 06, 2024 @06:13PM (#39956119)
Nor is it provable that you weren't. Which is the point of the previous comment. Anyways, enjoy the nosebleed material...
Re:Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom by nanocode on Saturday April 06, 2024 @05:36PM (#39955799)
What you wrote sounds a bit like "As a minor I have lived in asbestos building and I can assure you I was not harmed". How do you know?

As far as I know, there are many scientific studies that disprove what you've said - and that porn has, in fact, a harmful effect on young minds. Of course there are many other harmful things that we nevertheless accept, like alcohol, cars or cigarettes. So maybe we can, as a society, decide that letting kid watch porn is OK and not worth the alternative (privacy intruding regulations). But arguing that it's not harmful at all is not, I believe, scientifically justified.

Re:Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom by thriftwy on Saturday April 06, 2024 @05:56PM (#39955984)
Living in asbestos building is definitely better than not living in any building. Porn was the only kind of sexual life available to me for a while.

It is my internal state, I find your ideas that you may be a better judge of it than myself revolting. WTH are you?

Re:Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom by refurb on Saturday April 06, 2024 @09:32PM (#39957357)
> ...and I can assure you I was not harmed

How do you know?

I'm not arguing porn is harmful to minors, I have no idea what the data says. But people tend to be terrible at self-diagnosis.

Re:Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom by thriftwy on Sunday April 07, 2024 @05:08AM (#39959446)
I've never seen any research into the topic and I can't imagine you can have one, since you don't have control group.

So I will assume you are conjuring facts out of thin air.

Re:Porn restrictions are leading to a VPN boom by refurb on Wednesday April 10, 2024 @08:00AM (#39989710)
I didn’t state any facts, I asked “how do you know”?

Because patients are terrible at self-diagnosis.