Texas Age Verification Bill Would Plaster Health Warnings On Porn Sites
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Just when we didn’t think the state of Texas could get any more wacko on tech policy, this latest bill really suggests otherwise. House Bill 1181 is an age verification measure that is similar…

Porn sites must have government health warning in Texas from September 1st::Just when we didn’t think the state of Texas could get any more wacko on tech policy, this latest bill really suggests otherwise. House Bill 1181 is an age verification measure that is similar to what we’ve seen in the state legislatures across other red U.S. states. You have an age verification proposal that is similar…

  • SulaymanF@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1757·
    1 year ago

    I doubt that. Cigarette companies have to include warning labels as per the courts and there’s a mountain of evidence that porn can be harmful to people.

    • fubo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      361·
      1 year ago

      Go look at what speech they’re compelling. It’s outright defamatory.

      • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
        401·
        1 year ago

        Yeah lol

        Or, that exposure to porn “is associated with low self-esteem and body image eating disorders, impaired brain development, and other emotional and mental illnesses.” Note how they use the term “exposure” as if a person watching porn was exposed to a real disease.

        Not to mention

        “The statements on science effects are just false, they have never been shown,” said Prause in an email to me. She elaborated that the “science” referred to in House Bill 1181 is “completely fabricated.” “APA and WHO both rejected sex and pornography as addictions because they are not. The bill flies in the face of scientific consensus.”

        Everything is bigger in Texas. Including outright fabrication

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
          718·
          1 year ago

          APA and WHO rejecting sex and porn as addictions makes me more skeptical of them than porn addiction.

          And I’m already side-eyeing WHO from how they handled covid. They are the ones where a lack of evidence had them supporting the “everything is fine” side of things rather than the “better safe than sorry”. And also lying about the lack of evidence itself because there were already stories on the internet that indicated it was airborne when they were saying that there wasn’t any evidence that it was.

          WHO doesn’t have much credibility IMO and this just further hurts it.

              • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
                32·
                1 year ago

                Because a panel of scientists has done documented research to test whether porn addiction should be an illness, and through studies they have found that in most cases, compulsive porn usage is due to another underlying issue, and the porn itself is an avenue and not the source of the issue. Attacking the WHO because of your stance on COVID has nothing to do with this.

                • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Argh, had a comment written out but Lemmy closed and erased it when I upvoted. But the gist of it was I read a meta study that included the WHO one, then read a study that was for porn addiction, and the for porn addiction one mistook correlation for causation and their description of their data was still consistent with what you said.

                  Thanks for not being a dick with this response like that other guy.

                  • kautau@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    2·
                    1 year ago

                    Hey I’m just trying to make sure the right info is what people see. If there really is a scientifically proven porn addiction, let’s make it known, but before that, and until that happens, let’s tackle the problem with evidence

            • Buddahriffic@lemmy.worldEnglish
              22·
              1 year ago

              I can’t tell if this is an insult or not. What kind of shoes do you have?

              And if they have something more productive to say, could you put them on instead?

    • arin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 year ago

      Damn, people should stop having sex at all. Don’t let people view media that shows examples of sex