The pendulum has clearly started to swing back to sexual repression. Society has started to see sexual freedom and expression as grotesque. Now the only question is how far it'll swing.
It’s hard to have an army of dirt cheap outsourced moderators sort out regular porn from revenge porn.
If you take too long dealing with regular spam, not much happens. If you take too long dealing with this kind of content, you get cut off from payment providers and advertising.
The HN crowd is mostly safe from such attacks so this is a real blindspot.
Disintermediation here removes a lot of scumbags
Personally I got so sick of it all that I have up pornography completely about 4 years ago. I'm not saying everyone else should follow suit but I count it as the single best thing I ever did for myself, my mental health and my real life relationships.
But doesn't all NSFW content just expand the range of what you have to detect and process?
I think the issues here is the US money is over and now the big investors are from countries that porn is banned like China and Arabias.
When has it been not grotesque? It's just that “American” “norms” are actually starting to “progress” to the mean.
Post all the conservative political opinions you want. As long as you stay away from posting hate, personal attacks, and similar, you're not going to lose your Twitter account
That;s a pretty standard Conservative position that I think would be well received here.
Just because it isn't a perfectly bright dividing line doesn't mean it's entirely subjective. It is also to the benefit of a side regularly spewing hate to also argue that it's subjective.
(And to be clear, none of those things short of imminent threats should ever be considered punishable by a government; that has far more negative outcomes than positive ones. But they absolutely should have consequences by individuals and groups who choose not to associate with such things.)
Broadly, the biggest pushes have been to limit exposure of highly-sexualized content to those 18+.