I vow to destroy the porn industry.

Then why don't we ban all things that have negative affects on humans? Why don't we make alcohol and cigarettes illegal and throw all producers and consumers of those substances in jail?

If you make porn illegal the problem would just get worse. Are you ok with going to jail if you get caught looking at internet porn? What about teenage boys who look at porn, should we lock them up too? The truth is porn is never going to go away, the same with all drugs and everything else that is harmful to humans.

 

It was actually a policy proposal by the Conservative government here in Britain. It very nearly became law, but they decided not to pursue it over data protection and compliance issues; "unworkable," they said.

There was opposition from their own supporters concerned with the problem of an overbearing nanny state, while the liberals were up in arms about limitations to "sexual expression." In short, they used their pre-existing prejudices to justify their filthy love of porn.

 

Some more info here. It was actually a lot closer to being implemented than I thought, and it's interesting that it was actually EU law that blocked it in the end. I wonder if it will be back on the table next year?
https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/porn-block-uk-free-website-ban-dropped-delays-law-ageid-266854

 

I agree with you.
People, in this thread, don't realize that a kid needs only a VPN to bypass the so-called AgeID and browse porn sites as if nothing happened...
I think the only thing that can help raise awareness about the problem of online pornography is organizing meetings in high schools and universities, as the Fight the New Drug movement does every year.

 

And to be honest, not everyone who sees porn ends up as an addict. Almost every college student watches porn. I don't think they all would be addicts.

Though that doesn't mean the addiction isn't an illness and prevalent. I guess awareness groups would help.

 

If you speak against porn, people think you are an idiot.

 

I can understand what you mean. But it is way more difficult than it seems. It is almost impossible to attack any industry under the current capitalist liberal system, it will always come to a dead end no matter what you do.
The only possible way to change anything is to overthrow the actual political and socio-economic structure and replace it with another one, where industries like this one wouldn't ever dare to plant their poisonous seeds.
There is one existent type of regime that deals with it effectively and it's communism. Because owners and companies have less privilege in comparaison to capitalist-liberal systems.
Not that communism doesn't have it's cons and pros but one thing for sure is that under it's laws and rules, the porn industry and it's likes wouldn't blossom.

 

As for the 'awarness' approach. I think it's totally lame and wouldn't change anything in the big scale. It is the same strategy that kept the tobacco industry working despite all the negative opinions against it. It will not even scratch a lobby so powerful and deeply rooted as the porn industry.

As long as liberals control the medias, no anti-porn motivational speaker will earn fame or be taken seriously. It is as simple as that. The opposition to porn will be reduced to small vilified groups no one really wants to listen to. Anyone who sincerely believes massive changes can be made possible with raising 'awarness' is naive and a hopeless dreamer.

As much as I appreciate fight the new drug . I don't think they can achieve what a system alteration can.

 

This is why I don't think awarness might work in this case. It did reduce cigarettes use but it wouldn't have such an impact of porn consumption. The best way to fight against such a disease is to combine both awarness from the part of society, and strong authoritarian measures from the system in power.

 

Well, good luck with that. Should be interesting to see to say the least.