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In reply to the discussion: Iceland campaigns to restrict internet porn [View all]dairydog91
(951 posts)The primary criteria for determining whether proposed legislation should be enacted is to ask whether the proposal makes us feel good about ourselves. Doing a cost-benefit analysis makes you a woman-whipping capitalist, while standing on anti-censorship principles makes you a Commie ACLU member.
All banning it would do would create a massive black market that would benefit only organized crime.
The only reason I disagree with you here is that I think the Internet is so good at getting around basic data censorship that there would be almost no real-world consequences to enacting the laws here. The exact structure of how porn was distributed in Iceland might change, for example large YouTube-like sites might be blocked while there would be a rise in Torrent-distributed smut, but I think the same amount and same variety of material would remain available.