Let's ban "Let's Ban" as a way of framing cultural disapprovalhttps://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/10/opinion/sunday/lets-ban-porn.html?referer=https://t.co/WaufgbsD5o?amp=1 …
Unserious blanket statements are the mirror-image of "it's bad, let's ban it". Even Ross's skimpy argument disposes of that -- businesses are subject to regulation. There is a big practical difference between a profitable industry and samizdat.
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If you wiped out all production, there would still be networks distributing what was already in existence for free.
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Out-of-date porn is much less exciting. Further, some of the bad effects Ross was describing are the result of new material always trying to outdo the old.
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But you're not going to stop people getting some stuff that's already extreme to most people and in massive volumes. It's not going to achieve the objective.
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These arguments are so bad I don't really believe you're serious. If porn were as hard to obtain as pirated hollywood movies (which are widespread, but not ubiquitous) that would be a big difference.
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Difference in promotion models. Former relies on freebies to attract customers. Latter uses trailers, mainstream media.
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The government would be playing a constant game of whack-a-mole with foreign websites creating new domains. You might do it if society really wanted to lock people up for possession, but I don't see that happening.
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