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I don't think I give a shit if kids see porn.
If that's the thing we're worried about, and the price of dealing with it is strangling privacy, then the problem is not worth solving.
There's a lot worse on the internet. There's a lot worse on daytime television. Blood and guts and cults and informercials. Desirable crude entertainment is obviously not worth locking down the internet. I mean for fuck's sake, at least with "four horsemen" excuses, like terrorism and money laundering, we agree that those things are bad.
Things that tucked me up on the internet as a teenager wasn't porn, most of us knew that was fake. It was the live leak shit that really broke millennials