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by squarefoot 1149 days ago
It's astonishing that we must repeat again and again that when alcohol was prohibited, it was sold anyway under the counter, and among those profiting from that black market were Al Capone and other similarly nice people.
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Plus a bunch of people actually died from low quality or incorrectly manufactured alcohol (that isn't even a reference to when the government intentionally poisoned some). We're seeing the same problem today with fentanyl getting into other illegal drugs.

Pornographic content also has an analog: If companies need to be illegitimate to provide it, then they won't be quite as picky about if the content itself was produced legally or illegally (e.g. CP and other abuse/sex trafficked originating content).

Banning pornography won't make it go away, it will just make it unregulated.