M_K_Babalon
Harbinger of smut
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- Nov 2, 2023
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Some people don't get when it comes to dealing with the government, it's a game of Chutes & No Ladders. I kinda dealt with something similar to that, back in the MSNChatroom days.Every couple of years (feels like every couple of months) some government floats the idea of passing laws to make it mandatory for adults to register if they want to be allowed to view porn. I'd speculate that most of these proposals are coming from groups who'd love to ban porn sites outright but understand that a direct ban isn't politically viable, and who believe that registration would discourage a lot of people.
If I were running a site like this, I would not be in a hurry to do those groups' work for them. If Literotica were to require registration - even if they came up with a really great, super-secure model for it - it'd make it that much easier to pass such laws: "look, even these porn website owners understand the need for registration". And those laws would not be user-friendly, not when discouraging people from using porn is the point.