So alcohol and tobacco should be entirely banned as well? We should start with these, they’re way worse
venusaur@lemmy.world 4 days ago
If you at all think that people can be addicted to social media, you could draw a correlation from this to porn addiction.
I know a lot of you either don’t think porn can be addictive and/or don’t think it can have negative effects on society.
Ask yourselves why the logic works for social media but not porn.
FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 4 days ago
venusaur@lemmy.world 4 days ago
[deleted]FireIced@lemmy.super.ynh.fr 4 days ago
I’m all good, thanks
To be clear: yes it has some impacts, but I believe the majority of problems could be avoided if the parents did their job and told them that it wasn’t like that in real life
Asking for identity like this isn’t fine as we all know porn isn’t really well accepted by everyone, including employers, so having a data leak or just having our preferences linked to our identity doesn’t make us confortable.
People will always be able to go around and find porn every way, and I bet people that ended up on porn either searched for it, or went to a shady website you can’t regulate anyway, or went to some social media where some asshole posted explicit photos, which imo is the most likely.
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 4 days ago
To be fair, potentially addictive or not, I wouldn’t support a ban on social media either. The practical requirements needed to effectively restrict access to information in the modern age (both porn and social media being examples of information) are such that I generally view the cure as worse than the disease, so to speak, and view the least bad option as being to just give up on legal restrictions and just deal with the consequences instead. Addiction is harmful, but most consumers of such information aren’t harmed by it, and restriction inherently requires monitoring and removing internet anonymity to a degree that I find unacceptable.
venusaur@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Didn’t say anything about banning porn or social media. Just saying that they’re both addictive and have negative consequences on society. Yall can keep your porn. Relax.
FourWaveforms@lemm.ee 4 days ago
maybe we should ban all the vices you don’t partake of but leave the rest intact
HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Ehh… Application of a addiction model is somewhat controversial for pornography (the ground seems divided on whether it’s a compulsion or an addiction). Social media, however, is no less controversial (it’s just the media likes to hype this more).
I will say - the point of a porn site is to sell user data and deliver ads, whereas the point of social media is to keep the user scrolling by any means possible. By its design, the latter cultivates addiction as a clear goal (the goal to scroll is artificially imposed), whereas the case for the former is less clear (the goal to masturbate isn’t something porn created). In essence, one creates a drive and then sates it, whereas another sates an existing drive.
Honestly, I think, at the moment, we’re on the “violent video games cause violence” stage of the research. In other words, not enough data to decide so the media has decided for us.
daggermoon@lemmy.world 4 days ago
venusaur@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Exactly. The world is addicted to porn.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Ask yourselves why the logic works for social media but not porn.
Because they’re two completely different things.
skeesx@lemm.ee 4 days ago
You absolutly right, but here in the Mecca of internet freedom, we don’t likey.
venusaur@lemmy.world 4 days ago
But we love our mods. What about freedom of speech online? People just too addicted to porn and can’t even muster an ounce of criticism or critical thinking.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
If everything you can get addicted to were made illegal, there’d be nothing legal left.