> Also, I'm for teenagers (not little children) having access to pornography.

I'm against: pornography, as found in search results, is generally quite bad. Sexism, racial stereotyping, misrepresentations of queer issues: and that's just the titles. Page 3 has nothing on porn sites.

Maybe I'm judging a book by its SEO spammers here, but I've not read anything that'd disabuse me of this notion: indeed, people raise concerns about unreasonable body image expectations, normalising extreme sex acts like choking without normalising enthusiastic consent practices, the sites allowing CSAM and "revenge porn" that they've already taken down to be re-uploaded…

That said, I routinely come across nudes / sexualised imagery on the Fediverse, and that's… not an issue? Sometimes I find it a bit squicky (which teaches me not to play lift-the-flap with clearly-marked content warnings – I don't know what I expected), but the only times I've seen something viscerally offensive has been people re-posting from porn aggregation sites. (I've blocked three or four accounts for that, and I don't see it any more.)

If porn sites had the kind of stuff that queer / disabled techies post on main on niche social media sites, then I'd be absolutely fine with teenagers accessing porn. As you say, a safe environment for adolescents to explore their sexuality is unequivocably a good thing. I just don't think commercial porn sites provide that.

This is what concerns me the most about the Online Safety Act. It's shutting down the aforementioned queer / disabled techies on their social media sites, and surely plenty of other pro-social sex communities I don't even know about, but it's not going to do a thing about the large aggregators that are the real problem. It in fact makes the whole problem worse.

It seems bad to fix a problem that can be addressed by self control. It's like making a bulky un-aerodynamic car go farther by adding a bigger engine/more fuel. But I understand too when you're 100s of lbs overweight it can seem impossible to change. I work out myself but my motivation is to get laid vs. actually embracing health I still binge eat for fun.

I think Ozempic doesn't have crazy side effects other than the face? Could be wrong

Edit: Regarding the topic at hand, I either don't drink or binge drink so I'm no saint same with driving fast.

Windows doesn't randomly lose characters or focus for me.

A foreign territory that israel is at the same time at war with, but also controls borders, imports/exports, airspace and the population registry.

Also, what about the West Bank? The PA is decisively not at war with Israel, yet the occupation there is even stricter than in Gaza. The Israeli government seems to view it as a Schrödinger's territory that at the same time is part of the state and not part of the state.

You're splitting hairs. There wasn't peace on Oct 6th.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-killed...

And the Occupation was still increasing.

https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/palestine-occupied-pa...

> Go to Israel and look at the well dressed Palestinians shopping in the major malls in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv and think about if that is really what apartheid looks like.

Look at these well-dressed Polish Jews in a bar in the Warsaw Ghetto and think about if that is really what genocide looks like. Come on now! https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/the-camps/the-warsaw-g...

> easy to lob false accusations and cherry pick facts

You'd think HRW and Amnesty are thorough, but if you prefer a Israeli shedding light instead, then: https://x.com/ireallyhateyou/status/1746692047354958151

Most countries wouldn't be in that position in the first place. Mexico attacking the US would be basically unprovoked; Hamas attacking Israel is… not.