"Protect Children Not Porn" is a false dichotomy.
It is expressed on services like Twitter/X as #ProtectChildrenNotPorn by the usual antiporn crusader would-be censors and the people who make a living grifting off of them, who try to make life as difficult for people who make, sell, and watch any erotica.
Groups like Exodus Cry (originating from an Evangelical church), Justice Defense Fund (which is basically Laila Mickelwait, who was with Exodus Cry but might not be anymore for some still unexplained reason), National Center on Sexual Exploitation (which is a rebrand of Morality in Media) and Fight the New Drug (which insists it is NOT a Mormon organization, and we know Mormons have never tried to conceal their motives and operations before) know that very few people will support a religious crusade trying to ban all pornography, but their core supporters want that. So these groups try to fool people with campaigns that claim to be secular campaigns about children and women being abused.
Except that we know their campaigns are really about attacking the freedom of consenting adults to make and watch erotica.
How?
1) They claim that porn websites must be shut down if rogue users violated the terms of service by uploading illegal video content, claiming that such content victimizes women and children. But these same people have never called for shutting down churches (or their Mormon equivalents) when staff is is caught making or distributing such material, or actually, personally assaulting a woman or a child. They don't even pressure banks/credit card companies to stop processing payments to/for those churches.
2) They use social media that has far more illegal videos on it than any of the porn sites they target, and they know this.
3) They have attacked OnlyFans, one of the best services for ensuring the women participating are consenting, are indeed women and not girls, and that the people viewing their explicit material are adults (they charge!).
One of them, let's just call her Mayla Ficklewaste, has let her toddler play with her phone, even though Mayla constantly searches out illegal videos, frequently visits porn sites, and the child was able to access Twitter, which has rape and snuff videos. Anyone can upload anything to Twitter right now. PornHub only has verified uploads. Guess which service this MF attacks?
It's a RUSE.
It's a SHAKEDOWN.
It's a FUNDRAISING PLOY.
They're NEVER going to ban porn, but they'll keep collecting money from scared, insecure, gullible people who are counting on them to do so. All they can do is shake down what other people have earned, and make life difficult for models and performers. Likewise, they tell the broader public that they simply want these restrictions, but that's a lie. Their crusade would continue.
They haven't prevented one person from being abducted, enslaved, or assaulted. But Laila sure has gotten lots of attention, fed her ego, and lined her pockets.
It is not "defending porn" or "protecting porn" to value freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and free enterprise.
It is not defending porn or protecting porn, and certainly not attacking children, to point out that "leaders" in these "movements" are hypocritical, two-faced, and fleecing the gullible.
They say there's nothing stopping children from viewing porn websites. There is "nothing stopping" kids from walking into traffic, or taking an automobile a joyride, or setting themselves on fire, or burning down their residence.
Except that there is. It is called...
P A R E N T I N G
That's why I use the hashtag #ParentYourChildren
These crusaders are such bad parents that they want the whole world to change for the sake of what they don't want their kid seeing.
Here's what people can do to parent their own child.
1) Don't give your a child a networked phone or tablet. If you do, have controls and monitors on it.
2) Keep any other device that can access online content in common areas of your home, where it will be supervised. Controls can also be used on these.
3) Don't let your children go without your supervision to any residence that doesn't follow these practices.
Yep, this is right. Some people want to take shortcuts to parenting, by living their children all day with the tablet in hand or leaving them on the streets playing all day... Than they wonder what went wrong.
ReplyDeleteInstead, maybe after some hours of play, they can sit down with the child and read a book to them. It's not like the internet is not full of animated and informative books for minors or something.