Texas in all their wisdom that can’t keep an electrical grid running smooth
Works much better than it does in other states.
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irmadlad@lemmy.world 1 day ago
(mostly illegal sports streaming sites)
This doesn’t accomplish what the legislature intends. It never does. For instance, in the US, Texas in all their wisdom that can’t keep an electrical grid running smooth without duct tape and bailing wire, has decided to ‘ban’ PornHub. It makes all the christofascist’s dicks hard because in their mind, they have rooted out evil and destroyed it. (See Satanic Panic in the 80s) However, their weak, little minds cannot comprehend the fact that for every technology, there exists an equal, yet undoing technology.
Do it for the children I hear them say, and I would agree in this example, that children should not be viewing porn. A better solution would be to make parents actually parent. You brought a service into your home that can be both highly detrimental and highly beneficial, and then you turn around give it all, including a cel phone, to a very inquisitive mind uninhibited, unmonitored, and uncontrolled in any manner. You’re the problem, not porn.
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Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
keepee@lemmy.world 1 day ago
[deleted]Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
You’re referring to a single incident that has since been resolved.
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 1 day ago
[deleted]Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
Works much better than it does in other states
Might work better for you but there are plenty of other places that are much worse.
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I have friends who live in Houston who would like to mention the three times in the last ten years where their power was out for multiple days at a time. Usually while it is freezing or over 100F outside.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
Remind me which coastal cities are so “wise” as to have a power system that’s immune to hurricanes?
wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Oh fuck off they lost power for over a million people last year because of a cat 1 hurricane that didn’t even directly hit them.
DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
It’s funny that the examples listed have nothing to do with hurricanes, and were actually polar vortexes from the north, and just general heat waves. Nothing “extraordinary” other than temperature.
HybridSarcasm@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Get out of here with that logic and personal experience that contradicts the popular narrative!
JakobFel@retrolemmy.com 22 hours ago
I’m not saying I support this legislation but I’m really sick of the “parents should be parenting” excuse. Parents can be doing a great job with their kids and those kids will still see porn because of the way platforms push things (not to mention the ease of access of porn, which just needs to be outright banned).
The only solution, barring well-written legislation, is to not allow your kid to have a smartphone until they’re late teenagers, and ensure their access to computers is restricted to a public room, with appropriate monitoring.
That’s my plan whenever I have kids. However, something tells me a lot of people on Lemmy will take issue with that approach.
onlinepersona@programming.dev 53 minutes ago
I’d say the problem is education. Porn is only an issue because people do not get proper sex ed. The reaction to seeing a dick sucked in front of a child shouldn’t be shame, disgust, or terror but allowing the inquisitive mind to ask what is happening.
Sex is a completely normal occurrence that is the reason we are all here. There shouldn’t be any shame or stigma in explaining to a child (or any person for that matter) what it is, what it involves, why it is done, how to safely do it, what consent is, why it is stigmatised.
Want to protect children? Educate them.