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Sometimes we have those little epiphanies in the shower.. sometimes they come from other places. This is a home for those epiphanies.

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The best way to get rid of the UK porn ban is to get one of the big sites classiefied as porn, such as YouTube or Facebook, which would actually be justified. (sh.itjust.works)

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Just go on Facebook reels or YouTube shorts and "thirst" for a while, meaning stop scrolling whenever you see a scantily dressed girl or something similar and eventually the algorithm will serve you just straight up smut.

And once they're labelled as porn sites, they'd lobby hard to get the law repealed, rather than actually pay for adequate moderation.

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[–] manualoverride@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

They really don’t care at all, YouTube is already trialing age verification, these companies have regulatory hoops to jump through in every country they operate in, it’s easy for them to comply and it will have a negligible impact on revenue.

You should write to your MP, send them an email, call them of visit one of their surgeries.

When the BBC started requiring a login to view the content I pay for, I stopped using it. When Facebook were neck deep in the Cambridge Analytica scandal I deleted my account, and when Reddit started their API extortion, I moved to Lemmy.

If you are here you are also a digital nomad like me, if you let the politicians and corporations carve up the internet then soon we will have nowhere left to move. Time to make a stand.