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by ipaddr 291 days ago
Yes. Sending your government issued id to random porn sites is asking for your identity to be stolen. Sites filter out any child porn because those are different serious laws. I can live with revenge porn because it's really amateur porn labelled another way. Like supporting eco friendly porn where you walk to the hotel instead of drive.

Regulating markets where someone unvested group of people decide the rules on what can sell /how it can be sold /who can buy or sell is always worse than not regulating it in the first place.
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lp0_on_fire 291 days ago
> I can live with revenge porn because it's really amateur porn labelled another way.

"revenge porn", by definition is non-consensual. You might as well have said "I can live with rape because it's just love labeled another way".

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ipaddr 291 days ago
That's disrespectful to anyone who has been raped. Someone posting a private video of a consensual action is not rape in any way shape or form. That's a warped viewpoint that needs to be changed. I recommend you speak with a rape survivor.
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lp0_on_fire 290 days ago
You are a disgusting person and no amount of pseudo intellectualism is going to change that.
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ipaddr 289 days ago
You are fake.
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delusional 291 days ago
> Yes. Sending your government issued id to random porn sites is asking for your identity to be stolen.

Ah, so you don't understand what's being proposed. Let me clear that up.

The implementation proposed by the EU does not involve your government issued id, but rather an openid style handoff to a trusted government entity, where you verify your identity with your government, followed by a handback along with a proof of your age bracket. The website asking for verification only ever gets to know if you're 16+ or 18+ (or whatever other classification we can make up).

> I can live with revenge porn because it's really amateur porn labelled another way

Fuck you. Get out of here with that shit. Disgusting.

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scarface_74 291 days ago
And then the government knows what sites I visit. There is no such thing as a trusted government entity.
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ipaddr 291 days ago
A lot of disgusting legal porn exists. Revenge porn is just boring amateur porn that doesn't have consent attached. Both parties may or may not have knowledge of it and someone decides to share after the relationship ends. It's part of their relationship, its a real event that shows a moment of closeness and its an expression of real love. It doesn't interest me but to find you think its so disgusting sounds fake. People have real lives and real relationships that are raw and doesn't always show you in the light you want to present but if its honest and real its life. It's art in a different form.
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sky2224 291 days ago
> It doesn't interest me but to find you think its so disgusting sounds fake.

Hello! I think it's incredibly disgusting. Uploading intimate videos of your partner (past or present) is an absolute breach of that individual's privacy and trust. Additionally, it absolutely is NOT legal. I think it's quite alarming if someone doesn't find it disgusting.

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ipaddr 291 days ago
I guess you are not a fan of Taylor Swift. All of her albums have been revenue porn.
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