mang0

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Russia says they’re invading Ukraine to de-nazify them. With your logic, this reason is valid because they said so and being sceptical would be beliving in conspiary theories. Go on and continue to be an useful idiot for politicians.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There exists e.g. religious people who think porn is a sin. Saying you’d want to ban porn because it’s a sin would alienate potential voters. Therefore, they can simply take the “think of the children!” position which is a classic approach and that sounds much more appealing while still restricting access for everyone (who wants their identity associated with their porn history? Data leaks happen all the time).

  Similarly, (depending on political climate) far right politicians can’t openly spout hate about foreigners since it would alienate some voters. Yet, time after time they’re revealed to have been doing it e.g. when they thought they were anonymous.

  Of course you can’t know someone’s true intention, but assuming that people won’t lie and anything said by them is undoubtedly true unless somehow proven false is a bit naive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, if they say so then it must be the true. Politicians would never hide their true intentions to make their policies more appealing.