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> Your browsing history is unlikely to contain [...] porn images

Of all the places on your computer that might contain porn images, that would be one of the very top candidates.



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> Nevermind the fact that the existence of a government database of all the (potentially weird) porn you look at is a gold mine for anyone who wants to blackmail or pressure you into silence.

If you don't want a record of you looking at it, then don't look at it. All you need to do is refrain from pornography consumption. It really is that easy and simple.


> what happens on the internet, stays on the internet, leading to a lifetime of re-victimization

Nonsense. The odds of you stumbling upon a particular porn photo or video are miniscule unless you are specifically searching for it or it's very popular (which is very hard and not going to happen for unwilling pictures).

Particularly as most sites would take down images of you on request.


> but got tons of porn

Sure hope you're not googling it in an open-plan office...


> Porn sites in general are poorly designed from the UI side. But the fact is, porn users will go through hoops to find what they want.

Try finding porn while not seeing any male genitals during searching/browsing. It's virtually impossible, and it totally ruins the UX :)


>PornHub is somewhat unique in that it’s so large and totally free.

Uh.. no..

And how about you just go to google/bing whatever and search for some porn. It will come right up.

You are completely bonkers if you think free porn is somewhat unique to pornhub.


> [...] as an exercise to the reader, go to archive.org and type in the URL of your favorite porn website.

And then, what? You get the content and you consider that problematic?


>Odds are there is something on your hard disk right now that could be classified as child porn, if the accuser was motivated enough.

This sounds like projection.

Not everyone blunders through life with a massive stash of questionable pornography.

The criteria for determining what is and is not child pornography are quite clear: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2252A


>If they have pictures on their PCs they are.

If I have porn with men on my computer, it does not mean that I am gay or have raped men. Your reasoning is absurd.


> Then why is porn so hard to find on YouTube?

because detecting nudity is a much much easier problem.


> you actually had to seek porn to find it back then

You clearly haven't seen early Internet. Giant flashy banners with semi-porn content everywhere


> including lots of porn

but not all


> There are non-sketchy pornographic websites

Maybe, but twitter and reddit are not among them. Both are known for hosting very extreme content.


> But roughly, there seems to be no strong evidence that Pornhub did not remove illegal content they became aware of.

There seem to be no strong evidence that Pornhub did remove illegal content they became aware of.


>>That depends or your definition of pornography

Let’s not split hairs here. There is a reason we have a saying: “X is like porn; you know it when you see it.”


>There's a reason much of malware is spread from porn sites.

I thought this was no longer the case


>I honestly doubt porn is one of the bigger bad influences.

haha oh wow


> Anything you can think of you will be able to find that content.

That's untrue. A trivial example is porn involving 17 year olds.


>There is a lot of correlatory evidence.

[Citation needed]

> am sure you know how to use Google.

I am, and yet in 20+ years of asking people objecting to porn to provide evidence of harm, I've yet to come across anyone that have been able to provide anything remotely believable, so forgive me for not being convinced by a request to Google it.


> Now is a 40 year old Syrian man looking at pictures of cats on imgur?. That's anomalous.

Hide in porn, watching porn is not suspicious.

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