| ▲ | WarmWash 3 hours ago |
| I think the most damning thing about porn hysteria is that society as a whole ran the experiment of an open internet for 30 years, long enough for a full generation of people to be fully raised on it and -none- of the things the anti-porn crowd cried about came true. In fact things actually moved in the opposite direction. The whole think is unsurprisingly just as bunk as the hysteria over violent video games and "demonic" music. It seems plain old social media is the actual damaging thing to come from the internet. |
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| ▲ | googaar 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| There absolutely was damage. The damage was at a sociological/behavioral level and thus difficult to measure. |
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| ▲ | stickfigure 14 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | That which is asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. | |
| ▲ | Lord-Jobo an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | “Damage, difficult to measure” was not what was predicted 30 years ago. Satanic apocalyptic 40k dark elves society, blood orgies and lawlessness was much closer to the messaging. Literal actual Judaic apocalypse was a major risk. | | | |
| ▲ | WarmWash 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Once again, convenient logic swoops in to save the ego. | |
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| ▲ | bcjdjsndon 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > It seems plain old social media is the actual damaging thing to come from the internet. Ah come on man used by billions it should have killed hundreds of thousands by now if what they say is true about it |
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| ▲ | pickleglitch 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | One could make the argument that it has, via political changes. DOGE, for instance, who's cuts have been linked to hundreds of thousands of deaths, would have been very unlikely without social media. | | |
| ▲ | stickfigure 12 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Just in case you're too young to remember, nutjob politicians with stupid ideas long predate social media. | |
| ▲ | bcjdjsndon 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | What, because of the doge meme? | | |
| ▲ | jfengel 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Because of the misinformation that led to DOGE cutting funding on programs that saved a lot of lives, but cost almost nothing. People elected the present government based on the lie that the budget could be balanced by cutting things like foreign aid and the arts, but in fact those things are a rounding error in the overall budget. |
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| ▲ | harvey9 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Not all damage is fatal |
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