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They banned porn with choking in it. They banned toy advertising in the evening. They tried to ban client side encryption for iCloud. Make no mistake they will go for vpns too.

>>xdfgh1+(OP)
100%.

Funnily enough. They just need to claim it's "protecting the children" and people fall for it.

The funniest part is that high profile criminal cases go unpunished very visibly. Even if they have minors in their context, because the elite figures in question must be protected from the enforcement of rules.

>>isaacr+K3
I may well be wrong, but I suspect that the number of people who "fall for" the protect-the-children narrative, at least to the degree where they believe the proposed change is effective enough to justify it, isn't very large.

I'd argue it works because it's a rhetorical tactic that's highly effective at suppressing dissent. Anybody sticking their head above the parapet is going to get painted as somebody who favours pornography over the safety of children, even though this legislation and opposition to it has very little to do with either.

>>badpen+T7
In my experience, people in real life do absolutely parrot the talking points that are deemed to be good (TM). Whether they do it out of fear or not, ends up being a moot point since they create an environment of apparent cohesion.

>>xdfgh1+(OP)
Banning porn depicting choking "to protect women from violence" is so funny. You could not ask for a better example of moral panic from people that didn't do their research. Choking is a strongly women preferred kink.

>>Spivak+rJ
There's also a reported epidemic of women being choked during sex unprovoked, and who certainly don't want it. Unfortunately these laws are being made from things happening in the real world that get traction.

Is the law a good way to stop this? I don't know. The main tool of governance for our elected leaders are laws, and so that's what they do.

>>flumpc+5f1
I have no reason to believe pornography caused that. If anything, I'm more quick to assume puritan values caused that.

We don't teach people about consent and sex. We tell them stupid things like "don't have sex, it's evil" and then send them off. And then stupid things ensue.

>>const_+OP2
There's not a lot of puritan values going around in the UK. Meanwhile the violence in pornography is very evident.

https://ifas.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CLO_1164_TL1_...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10410236.2021.1...