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Porn sites must have government health warning in Texas from September 1st
(www.techdirt.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Go look at what speech they're compelling. It's outright defamatory.
For the lazy:
HB 1181 would issue public health warnings including claims that porn use “increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, and child pornography.” Claims that are included in the health warnings laid out by the bill suggest that porn use is “potentially biologically addictive, is proven to harm human brain development, desensitizes brain reward circuits, increases conditioned responses, and weakens brain function.” Or, that exposure to porn “is associated with low self-esteem and body image eating disorders, impaired brain development, and other emotional and mental illnesses.” Note how they use the term “exposure” as if a person watching porn was exposed to a real disease.
All of that is backed up by actual evidence though. It’s not really disputed that porn affects self esteem and body issues or desensitizes reward circuits of the brain.
No clue why you have so many downvotes, I guess we got a bunch of weirdos in here. Porn is poison. It's what happens when patriarchy meets capitalism.