[hrktb]

I think it mostly has a special “canary in the coal mine” status.

For a lot of people pornography has no clear definition and is decided on a “I know it when I see it” basis. And it gets worse when it comes to an AI flagging it or a service’s staff reviewing content from another country.

This means it’s the perfect ground to train a banning content process, because it can be fuzzy, can fail a bunch, and a good chunk of people won’t be willing to openly defend their possession of “porn” (even if it’s a false positive for instance).

Otherwise I genuinely think we should recalibrate our vision of porn, its place in our societies and how we relate to it. I have the feeling it’s one of the subject that we dragged our feet the most to revise, when the world has been changing leaps and bounds compared to two or three gneerations ago.

[ihsw2]

It is fuzzy but only if you measure decency on a spectrum rather than black and white -- for some there is a fine line and for others the line is nine miles wide. Not only that but there is a difference between intended usage and actual usage.

Miley Cyrus may have no qualms about posting nudes of herself on her Twitter account and protect her expression via artistic license but sexual puritans will argue that anything that inflames the sense is deserving of censorship.

Given this data, recalibrating our vision of porn would require recalibrating our vision of sexuality in generally -- is a public expression of sexuality something that most people can tolerate? As it is now, that answer is no.