Why would anyone create an account when they can just go to some random website on the far side of the world that doesn’t follow that system to get whatever they’re looking for? Even when people got their pornography from magazines the stereotype was of even supposedly mature adults being weird about it — wearing dark glasses, going to the 7-11 in a part of town where they won’t be recognized, and looking all furtive and embarrassed with their copy of Hustler at the till. Vilifying porn and trying to make people register for some kind of age verification service or anything else in order to see it is just going to make people even more secretive about it just like the good old days, and everyone will go to some dodgy unlicensed website hosted by a shell company in the Seychelles instead of the strictly regulated law-abiding Canadian purveyors.
That’s why my proposal doesn’t require you to create an account or do any form of age verification. By default you can access porn without logging in or anything. Most common things people watch will be available there. The only restriction is that if you want to watch things that are inappropriate for teenagers, you create an account. Even then it’s just a username and password and you click a box that you’re over 18. It’s so little friction and no privacy invasion, that nobody is going to bother setting up a VPN or finding a dodgy site, that’s way more limited than the mainstream ones.
But that tiny bit of friction is enough that unless teenagers are explicitly seeking out content with exploitative themes, they aren’t going to bother creating an account, since what they want is available in the open anyway (i.e. fairly vanilla porn)
Why would anyone create an account when they can just go to some random website on the far side of the world that doesn’t follow that system to get whatever they’re looking for? Even when people got their pornography from magazines the stereotype was of even supposedly mature adults being weird about it — wearing dark glasses, going to the 7-11 in a part of town where they won’t be recognized, and looking all furtive and embarrassed with their copy of Hustler at the till. Vilifying porn and trying to make people register for some kind of age verification service or anything else in order to see it is just going to make people even more secretive about it just like the good old days, and everyone will go to some dodgy unlicensed website hosted by a shell company in the Seychelles instead of the strictly regulated law-abiding Canadian purveyors.
That’s why my proposal doesn’t require you to create an account or do any form of age verification. By default you can access porn without logging in or anything. Most common things people watch will be available there. The only restriction is that if you want to watch things that are inappropriate for teenagers, you create an account. Even then it’s just a username and password and you click a box that you’re over 18. It’s so little friction and no privacy invasion, that nobody is going to bother setting up a VPN or finding a dodgy site, that’s way more limited than the mainstream ones.
But that tiny bit of friction is enough that unless teenagers are explicitly seeking out content with exploitative themes, they aren’t going to bother creating an account, since what they want is available in the open anyway (i.e. fairly vanilla porn)