• SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today
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    2 hours ago

    You don’t have to be a porn star or even a porn consumer to oppose laws banning porn.

    And you don’t have to be a shitbag to recognize that, while well-intentioned, censorship is still censorship.

    I have absolutely no love whatsoever for the people who would spread such crap. I would love to get rid of it. But banning the speech doesn’t do that. It’s like smashing the altimeter in the airplane and then declaring that you’re not crashing anymore. But the reality is, smashing instruments in the airplane is never a great idea whether you are crashing or not. It just prevents you from seeing things you don’t want to. And you get hurt in the process.

    Censorship, historically, has never ended up anywhere good.

    • towerful@programming.dev
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      2 hours ago

      Porn is performed by consenting adults and consumed by consenting adults.
      That’s why porn made from human trafficking, revenge porn (ie leaking nudes of an ex) etc are illegal in most sane countries.
      The idea being that porn doesn’t hurt anyone.

      Hate speech is harmful. It’s purpose is to hurt people.
      So yeh, it should be illegal.
      I have no issues discussing hate speech. I do have issues with hate speech being used.