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I'm still waiting for the day when people will stop being absurdly neurotic about sexuality and just let people share their stuff as long as it's age flagged appropriately. It's so absurd that the most normal thing on earth is put into the same moderation category as harassment or hate speech.

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That’s what happens when you deal with companies from the US.

Amen. Sex is bad but violence and the weekly mass shooting circuit are great and good for the kids. God bless America.

When you have lobby groups like the NRA, but no lobby group for the porn industry, this is what happens.

The porn industry has lobby groups. The main industry one is the Free Speech Coalition, but the Adult Performance Artist Guild, the porn actors labor union, does lobbying (sometimes in conjunction with FSC where their interests coincide), too.

They don’t have nearly the resources, grassroots base, or supply of Russian money the NRA has had, OTOH, neither is in the degree of legal mess the NRA is currently in, either.

As another poster pointed out, it's not just the US, though with the US's economic dominance it's a huge factor. China and middle eastern nations don't like sexual content either. Basically, the governments in these places want you to concentrate on the state-sanctioned religion instead of relieving your biological urges with porn. So in the middle east, they want you thinking about Islam all day long. In the US, they want you thinking about Jesus n' Guns. In China, they want you thinking about the glory of Xi and the CCP. I'm pretty surprised actually that Russia hasn't cracked down on porn yet.

> I'm pretty surprised actually that Russia hasn't cracked down on porn yet.

That's just not how Russia rolls. Simple things like low fuel prices, alcohol and porn are what prevents the population from complaining.

Russians highly value internal peace and will not actively go against anything that helps to secure it.

That's your view, but actually most of the world doesn't share it. India, china and the middle east aren't found of sexual content.

Their moralistic and/or overly religious governments aren't fond of it. The vast majority of young people under 30 likely don't give a shit.

No, but their people most certainly are.

And what's your proof of that?

It was revealed by people familiar with the matter.

Not buying it, especially that these people have their own political and monetary incentives to say so.

Unfortunately we can't have this discussion until we talk about the larger issue of society catering to people's made up fairy tale religions, which is the root of this puritanical anti-sex behavior.

If I said that Earth was at the center of the solar system, up is down and the sky is green you would tell me that I'm wrong and misinformed, but if I said that I believe in a magical man in the sky who can walk on water and will send everyone to Hell for eternity for looking at porn then suddenly my "faith" has to be respected and everyone else has to change their behaviors to accommodate it. It's utter nonsense.

Utter nonsense is people wanting to promote degeneracy in society and all of the media allowing the propagation of perversion onto children to the point that sexual exploitation and objectification is just an accepted part of life. More than faith, modesty is a value that those without it perhaps can never realize the wisdom of it.

I'm waiting for the day when we collectively realize we can engineer ourselves out of this situation...

You have petabytes of porn available with incredible ease, every interst and fetish you can imagine

A terabyte of new porn will be generated while you are reading this

You can go your whole life consuming porn for hours a day and never see the same content twice, for free

Not sure what your complaint is

> just let people share their stuff as long as it's age flagged appropriately.

Sure, you can do that on Twitter already, plenty of depraved porn on that platform. Imgur doesn't have to allow that. It's not like there is a lack of places on the internet where you can post porn.

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