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Your personal morals should not be the basis of laws that invade the privacy of every last person in the country, including your sons. Don't you think that educating your son on sex, porn and reasonable usage (depending on age) would be an approach that would foster an atmosphere of trust and responsibility in the relationship between you and your child, making a law unnecessary? The way you seem to handle it just a) makes most kids curios and b) will make kids just hide their behaviour (and they will be seeing stuff, since most kids gain access in one way or another, and they share proudly for clout). Don't forget that the best liars come from very strict homes.
They're clearly not solely my morals. Why should your morals be the basis of things being unrestricted? What privacy do you have left exactly? Who is this hurting? It's all fun and games throwing big phrases around while we use everything tied to a name anyway.
If you're using a VPN and are truly a person that values their internet privacy, this doesn't effect you, does it?
And if by this we limit who porn is marketed to? Then fuck yeah. Same as gambling. There needs to be barrier of entry.
Bold of you to assume all that of my parenting habits, here lies the biggest issue with debating anything on the internet, people jump at extremes. Because the slightest bit of grey area and the ideology falls apart.
So let's take it for a spin shall we? Why should your morals stop me from stealing or hurting you? After all, it's just as illegal. Why should we stop kids from buying alcohol, it's illegal for shop to do it, do you also shout at cashiers asking for your ID? What about that privacy?
It's silly and as my original comment predicted, you're exactly the type of person I expected to see here. Ultimately, we're all balancing life, even wild west had rules.
No, they are the morals of all people who try to take away freedoms from others, for example parents who prefer an open discussion with their children, or people who might risk a lot by their preferences becoming public in a data leak - like the whole of the LGBT-spectrum in the USA, Russia, large areas of Africa and the UK too (since gender-affirming care is getting wrecked there too) for example. Even if it weren't that parts of the public were endangered, the underlying tools and mechanisms are easily abused as censoring mechansisms - slap a "that's against our morals"-sticker on it and let it disappear.
All my traffic is running over a VPN, because i don't like getting tracked. But regulations like this go beyond what affects me (it really doesn't - i couldn't tell you when i last watched porn if i wanted to). A prime example would be reproductive health; sites that explain a teenager stuff that he wouldn't ask his parents or a teacher might easily be labels as pornographic by puritans (the parents you wish that spoke up more might not, but i can guarantee you that those types will speak up first and loudest when they get the chance). You are also taking away that from every teenager in the country, especially those less privileged and with zealots as parents.
Even worse: The clearweb porn sites today are pretty sanitized, so there won't be anything really illegal on it. If they get their fingers on the stuff on the dark web by installing TOR, then they might be exposed to far more dangerous, illegal and traumatizing content and real life dangers than the average porn clip.
The barrier for entry can also be set by parents, if they are worth a fuck. put parental locks on their devices, thats the only thing you can realistically control anyways. No need for messy databases which will leak, no need for creating a precedent for censoring the web. Limiting advertising for whatever is easy in comparison and the mechanisms are already in place (and active - i don't think that hardcore porn gets many ad slots at prime time tv).
Stealing and hurting infringes on the freedom of others, watching porn doesn't. My ID isn't required for buying alcohol because i don't get confused with a 16 year old anymore.(you can add 3-4 decades on that) You still get asked even being a parent of a child? Must be quite the genes you have there.
Sorry for assuming your parenting habits. You spoke like one of those zealots i spoke above. If you aren't one and you simply didn't realize the dangers of legislation like this when enacted, i hope that you i gave you food for thought.