this is yet another proof of just how dangerous the anti/pro discourse has become. real victims are waiting for help while psychological first aid professionals are buried under reports about drawings and fanfiction that carry no legal weight.
the thing about this whole "normalizing pedophilia/incest/rape" phrase passed around by the twitter illiterati is that these things are very much normalized already because a patriarchal society depends on them to keep men in power. fiction has nothing to do with it
going out of my way to express my political opinion for the first time:
if all you got from seeing nasty subjects (in this case, incest) in porn get banned was "yayy problematic bad porn is gone!" you're EXACTLY the kind of person the government wants to control (1/5)
I want to pull my hair out when I see people who advocate censorship but are LGBT, enjoy violence/ horror, play video games, watch series with killers that explore complex moral difficulties ect.
Since censorship is about oppressing & control rather than people's safety, you are aware that it doesn't stop at one but not the other.
LGBT, Smut containing literature & history books are amongst the first things targeted.
Because they are ‘dangerous’ & promote ‘certain’ behaviours- sound familiar? They want you to adhere to their PERSONAL opinions & what best suits them. Also sound familiar? But this even means what appears in specific historical accounts.
The most important example of censorship right now is within the Epstein files, hiding behind smoke & mirrors rather than allowing the public to access the truth.
reminder: governments go after the "bad" fiction first (incest, age gap, etc) because they know they can rally more people behind banning it based on misguided moral compasses SO THAT they have precedent to then ban what THEY CALL "BAD" (LGBT, trans, etc) later!!
Does anyone remember when Collective Shout campaigned on getting the rape game taken down and was massively successful and everyone supported it even though a small minority said it was censorship and next thing you know half of itchio got banned? No reason Im bringing it up.
Sorry not sorry but you can't get upset that people are bringing up defending porn when it comes to age verification and digital IDs when almost every argument being used by govts is that we need surveillance to stop "children from seeing porn". Like its very relevant.
Unfortunately you ARE going to have to defend that nasty icky degenerate porn you don't like if you don't want to live in a world with digital IDs, sorry!!! The time for arguing over what porn is "morally" good/bad is done. The govt is trying to surveill everyone. Get w the game!
The Epstein Class is trying to OUTLAW the free internet!
As a result, PV will NO LONGER ISSUE ENDORSEMENTS to any candidates who won’t take a stand on these issues below:
Overview:
The bi-partisan elite, both in congress and through their corrosive market influences, are currently engaging in a campaign to restrict our internet freedoms. To put it simply, they are trying to privatize the Patriot Act and in doing so, exert more control over what is allowed to be discussed and who is allowed to participate in those discussions. We’ve gone from calls to regulate social media as a public utility to calls to abolish the democratic elements of social media entirely. In the last week alone we have seen several social media platforms comply in advance by cracking down on your free speech and mandating you upload your face and ID to ICE. We have to fight back to save the internet!
Battlefronts:
* The Effort to Repeal Section 230
* KOSA and other ID age verification laws around the world
* Platforms partnering with vendors like Persona to scrape Age Verification data to give to DHS/ICE and advertisers
* State Laws requiring ID to view porn websites
* Banning End-to-End encryption
Impact:
Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act protects online platforms from criminal and/or civil liability for all user generated content that does not violate federal law. Its repeal, as currently being championed by individuals like @SenatorDurbin, @amyklobuchar, and many others, would immediately lead to all social media sites mass banning users and mass removing any content of their platform that they deem as risky. It would make social media have to act like Cable TV where all aired content would need to be vetted for legal liability. Calls to boycott Israel would be labeled as anti semitism and thus likely blocked outright.
KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) and other age verification laws passed by various states, the UK, Australia, and Brazil would require everyone to upload their government ID to each website that contains anything the government or market deems to be 18+. This includes the obvious, but more insidiously it also refers to political speech. All those posts about ICE murdering American citizens would count. Accountability for any atrocity would become impossible. Worst of all, platforms are pre-capitulating to these laws against their interests as we have seen Discord recently attempt to do. Apple also announced it is going to require ID to download 18+ applications through the App Store. California today announced a new law that would require age verification at the operating system level.
West Virginia is suing Apple over end-to-end encryption. They claim this is to protect children but in reality it's to make it so the surveillance capabilities only the NSA could pull off would be possible by even your local police department.
This sounds too extreme or hyperbolic to be true, but it is!
Don’t take our word for it, see some of our sources in comments:
CALL YOUR LEGISLATURE: https://t.co/DS0Ug0n3Hg
#SaveSection230
i'm still caught up on the UK jailing people for 5 years over incest porn and people cheering that on after we all saw collective shout & australia nuke a whole bunch of queer games off the map because they were "problematic"
The third episode of my Section 230 mini series is out!! @thesiridahl joined to chat about FOSTA/SESTA, the devastating effects of “reforming” Section 230, and how chipping away at 230 is absolutely NOT “cracking down on big tech.”
https://t.co/4tiM2huPLS
Yes but they did that bc FOSTA/SESTA mandated Section 230 carve outs. It wasn’t Tumblr killing porn that broke the internet, it was chipping away at Section 230/free speech protections that started a domino effect. Watch my ep w @thesiridahl on this topic! https://t.co/9W1i9mwCEa
ive been on the hunt for good lesbian erotica again and boy you really have to sift through just a lot of. i wont call it trash it's not like im even having trouble finding stuff thats well written to some extent theres just so much out there that isnt even fucking horny