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Yeah? Want to know a reliable marker for a history of abuse, fraud, violence, and criminal tendencies?

Pornography.

Like many here, I have several adult daughters, and I’ve given a lot of thought to what role pornography has in our society.

You can sit there and act like my position is unreasonable, but while you do so, women are being trafficked for porn, suffering violence for porn, being drugged for porn, being coerced by their boyfriends and spouses for porn, and more.

Frankly, you can all spare me the bullshit, as if there could be one iota of legitimacy to the entire adult entertainment industry. Absolutely sickening.

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Would you please stop posting like this? It's very obviously not what HN is for, if you'll read https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

You may be completely right but this is not the way to go about showing it to everyone. We don't want garden-variety internet flamewar here—it's exactly the opposite of curious conversation.

Dang, garden variety is normalization of extremely victimizing behaviors surrounding an industry?

My posts haven’t been rude or unclear. I never made a sharp or crass remark directed at anybody in particular.

You’re characterizing my dismissal of defensive statements about pornography as inciting a flamewar?

I’ve read the guidelines. I need for you to explain to me in clear and unambiguous terms exactly what I’ve said that is not acceptable for HN and why it cannot be allowed whilst speech supporting an industry that systematically abducts, trafficks, abuses and exploits women is acceptable and not say, garden-variety misogyny.

Curious conversation? This place has a point system, fake names, and a voting mechanic, so, give us all a break with the platitudes.

I’m looking forward to your explanation.

Your comments in this thread include fulmination/name-calling ("Absolutely sickening") and flamebait ("Frankly, you can all spare me the bullshit") in the sense that the HN guidelines use those terms.

Also snark/sneering ("Ah, I didn't realize this was a safe space for perverts who hate women. Cool. Cool cool cool. Very cool.")

We ban accounts that post like that, regardless of how right they are or feel they are, so please don't keep posting like that.

From this I can only take away that you are not able to explain your position.

Trust me, the surprise is overwhelming!

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