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Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online

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693 points macawfish | 1 comments | 12 Jul 25 18:14 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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everdrive ◴[12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC] No.44544268[source]▶
Others have said this, I'm sure, but this will move past porn _quickly_. Once there is agreed-up age verification for pornography, much of the professional internet will require identity verification to do _anything_. This is one of the bigger nails in the coffin for the free internet, and this true whether or not you're happy with all the pornography out there.
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mathiaspoint ◴[13 Jul 25 13:55 UTC] No.44550491[source]▶
Sharing/storing child porn is already illegal and punished far more harshly. So it's not like we've gone from zero to one. We've been censoring things people don't like for a little while now.
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3836293648 ◴[13 Jul 25 15:38 UTC] No.44551183[source]▶
Sure, but that is a step from banning because it's harmful to the producer to banning because it's harmful to the consumer
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1. mathiaspoint ◴[14 Jul 25 00:32 UTC] No.44555170{3}[source]▶
Maybe if it were the creation of child porn that were illegal but that's not how the law is written.