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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: 0.204s | 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. int_19h ◴[14 Jul 25 19:33 UTC] No.44564344[source]▶
We're long past that point. Many (most?) Western governments ban simulated CP, including non-realistic stuff like cartoons or even purely textual descriptions.

Some go further still. E.g. in Australia, "laws also cover depictions of sexual acts involving people over the threshold age who are simulating or otherwise alluding to being underage, even if all those involved are of a legal age."