Comment by sabellito
7 months ago
Are you arguing that people who are against this law and its implementation in the UK are against it because they're addicted to porn?
7 months ago
Are you arguing that people who are against this law and its implementation in the UK are against it because they're addicted to porn?
Yes. There are legitimate reasons to dislike the law, its implementation, or its impact on privacy. But 99% of people dislike it simply because they are heavily addicted to porn. The fact there have been much more privacy invasive laws introduced in the UK over the last decade which face little widespread outrage is the tell.
I think it's rather that OSA actually visibly affects people in their day-to-day lives whereas other laws don't. I constantly hit age verification pages on Reddit and Twitter and I don't use either for porn. I'm fundamentally against giving Reddit or Twitter or a 3rd party processor my ID just to view content someone somewhere deemed potentially harmful to minors. At least Twitter is done on a post-by-post basis; on Reddit entire subreddits are gated behind age verification.
It's hard to keep this conversation in good faith if you're just gonna throw in some statistic you just made up.
It's very obviously a figure of speech and not intended as a statistic.
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