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Yeah, right. So the government is going to spend billions on “porn tokens”. That’s going to get through the legislature.

I’m sure there wouldn’t be a brisk illicit trade in these tokens either. Certainly no one would be incentivized to sell these tokens to teenagers for easy profit.

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Further, "porn tokens" are the pointy end of the wedge, because it's easy to misconstrue any opposition as advocating for "kids should have access to porn, actually". The broad end that is being hammered towards is "kids aren't allowed on social media because it's harmful to them" AKA "free speech tokens".

If you want an easy way to take something down, turn it into a vice. Then most of the people will do the rest of the work.

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