Absolutely. I don’t blame the children of Israel at all for what’s happening, and they shouldn’t be punished for it in 10 years (or now) because of the mistakes of their parents. My reasoning for the distinction is that if we focus on blaming the current administration, the “solution” will seem like we just need to replace who’s in charge and that everything would be good. But I very much doubt that would help, since hate for Palestinians is very much ingrained in Israeli society and that needs to be taken very seriously when considering how to move forwards.

That’s why my proposal doesn’t require you to create an account or do any form of age verification. By default you can access porn without logging in or anything. Most common things people watch will be available there. The only restriction is that if you want to watch things that are inappropriate for teenagers, you create an account. Even then it’s just a username and password and you click a box that you’re over 18. It’s so little friction and no privacy invasion, that nobody is going to bother setting up a VPN or finding a dodgy site, that’s way more limited than the mainstream ones.

But that tiny bit of friction is enough that unless teenagers are explicitly seeking out content with exploitative themes, they aren’t going to bother creating an account, since what they want is available in the open anyway (i.e. fairly vanilla porn)

This is probably a very controversial view, but I think we need “teenage friendly” porn (by which I absolutely do not mean teenage actors! Just intended for viewing by teenagers as well).

If you have porn which shows no exploitation, is always fully consensual, no violence and closer to reality, then I think the harm it does to teenagers will be much less severe.

You don’t really need an age verification system (although I’d not be against a truly anonymous one, e.g. the verifying site doesn’t know what service you’re signing up to, and just provides a token with proof of age), but by default if you’re not logged in you get the safer kind of content. And when creating an account it asks your age. If teenagers know they are allowed even when underage, they’d have little incentive to lie.

Ah thanks! I wasn’t actually aware of that distinction.

Yeah this is a big distinction I always try to make clear. I blame Putin for the war in Ukraine, I blame Israel for the genocide in Gaza.

Whilst I believe you could arguably replace Putin with someone who would be better and over time undo what Putin did, I think Netanyahu would likely be replaced with someone just as bad.

Not quite as black and white as that, but in general that’s the sentiment.

Wait, if you ban private and public schools then what’s left?

I’m pretty sure it’s not. It’s not common for women to ever be topless in Scotland, but it’s not explicitly illegal to be naked (men or women). Only more vague public decency and harassment laws. If a woman in Scotland was topless sunbathing, they’d definitely get some looks, but I think it’s very unlikely the police would intervene.

Then vote for a third party, and make your voice heard. If 10% of the vote went to an anti-genocide party, at least next time Democrats would realise that being pro-genocide is bad for them.