That's what ignorance is all about. They cared more about the disenfranchisement of their own people than the direct consequences. Ageism is what they wanted, and fascism is what they are going to get.

pHr34kY@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 163d (1 reply)

This is what the PH feed now looks like before login.

It's bizarre to see shitty softcore clickbait on the front page.

GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 163d

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REDACTED@infosec.pub · 34 pts · 163d (16 replies)

Japan was a real life experiment for censoring access to porn. Why do countries want to follow a bad example? Start buying spy camera finders and protect your private areas in trains

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 14 pts · 163d (2 replies)

Ha-ha, the west would NEVER build trains you fool!

AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 162d (1 reply)

What? We have lots of trains. They're great!

panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 162d

I wanted to add after 1960 but it wasn’t as fun

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 163d (11 replies)

What did japan do?

REDACTED@infosec.pub · 12 pts · 163d (10 replies)

Generally developed countries do not censor or limit access to pornographic or adult material. Japan is pretty special case and a very good study in this regard, and they have quite a lot of creeps and creep porn, relatively speaking. People like to assume that banning nudity or violence from young minds is going to make humans grow up with less screwed up minds, but turns out the exact opposite thing happened. I remember my favourite childhood game being Postal 2. I'm fully against violence as a grown-up and it's been 2 decades since I hit someone.

kittykillinit@lemy.lol · 2 pts · 163d (7 replies)

I don't quite understand your argument. Did Japan ban (censor?) access to porn and that didn't stop people from being creeps, or what?

REDACTED@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 163d (6 replies)

EDIT: Forgot to answer your question lol - Yes, Japan has one of the strictest rules on pornography amongst developed countries.

My argument is quite long and hard to describe since English is my third language and this is essentially science.

Long story short, during development of brains, humans develop things they are going to enjoy doing, getting, etc that are often related to what was going on in your life at the time. So if you limit your child from enjoying candies, brain can incidentally develop lust towards sweets. It is believed that limiting your children from masturbating and seeing boobies during puberty can really screw him up as an adult. Psychologically and neurologically, scarcity can lead to development of desire. Intimate desires to see someone naked to the point you act on them (almost all men dream about seeing someone naked, but actually acting on your desires is whole another level of wanting) are a common thing in Japan.

I genuinely don't know if my Postal 2 is a valid example, but I played some really screwed up games in my young years (10-15), I was fully aware that these things are screwed up, I knew the difference between right and wrong, and I grew up with that idea while exploring the fucked up side of the world, including browsing 4chan at the age of 13. Good times. Still, grew up as a loving human who's anti-violence and anti-everything-evil

We came up with non-existing problem (kids have never had real problems with seeing nudity. See:Africa. They're either disinterested or capable of processing what is going on without getting brain-damaged), tried to solve it, and created a real problem during this process.

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 162d (5 replies)

Japan has one of the strictest rules on pornography amongst developed countries

Just like, the mosaics? I'm not sure that was the reason for all the different weird porn genres Japan puts out.

REDACTED@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 162d (4 replies)

Technically that's not porn afaik and does not break their laws. One could argue they adapted, but I too don't feel like claiming Hentai and others are a byproduct of censorship

tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 162d

Yeah, so what I'm trying to figure out is why you think Japan has lots of strict rules about it. As far as I can tell, other than the blurry genitals it's pretty much the same as any other developed country.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 161d (1 reply)

japan is famous for just censor genitals, but not porn in general.

REDACTED@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 161d

The genitals are censored in porn, not in real life. I get what you said, but..

If you get a document with redacted lines, then it's a censored document.

lechekaflan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 163d

In Japan, the post-war government attempts at controlling access to porn was but a bizarre journey, some with long-reaching consequences.

etherphon@piefed.world · 29 pts · 163d (3 replies)

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GalacticSushi@piefed.blahaj.zone · 11 pts · 163d (1 reply)

All this stuff to protect the kids

None of this is to protect the kids

TrollTrollrolllol@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 162d

Yep, it's to protect the power.

WoodScientist@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 162d

They own things. And those things are flammable.

SabinStargem@lemmy.today · 22 pts · 162d

Australia, started as a prison colony, remains a prison colony.

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 163d (1 reply)

How far away are we from political material about the opposing / opposition party requires an age verification check?

kittykillinit@lemy.lol · 8 pts · 163d

Would be nice if we had to give our consent to be advertised to.

KaChilde@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 162d (1 reply)

Ah, I can feel the desire for sin leaving my body. Thank you Australian government!

Fleur_@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 161d

Coincidentally I can also feel the desire for crime entering my body...

Fleur_@aussie.zone · 5 pts · 161d

We're a nation founded by criminals, its time to return to our criminal roots

Azrael@reddthat.com · 1 pts · 162d (1 reply)

Can people not just install a VPN?

MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 161d

Hense why my VPN is auto set to NZ (now its time to add AUS to the block list)

andybytes@programming.dev · -3 pts · 163d (7 replies)

but somehow these little shits get access to guns. we have to save the children translates to we are losing our arses in this war and we need to scare and control the masses

pHr34kY@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 163d (4 replies)

Huh? Australia has the world's tightest gun laws.

Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 163d (3 replies)

Not even close to being true.

They have a lot of farmland, and a lot of pests, so there's a huge number of people who have a legitimate need for a firearm. There's also a pretty strong recreational shooting community.

I don't know why people think you can't have guns in Australia, but it's just not true.

redwattlebird@thelemmy.club · 4 pts · 163d

Yeh people can get guns but kids would have a really, really hard time getting access to one. Knives, easy, but guns? No.

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 161d (1 reply)

It's quite true that you can own a gun, and yes it's not all that hard, but there are not many little shits getting a hold of them. If any.

Its not even remotely comparable to the US for example.

Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 161d

The US is a whole different world though, they have some gun accidents that would be incomprehensible where I live.

Our laws are that a firearm has to be in a locked safe when not in use, and the rules around transporting a firearm are pretty strict as well.

People just have loaded guns in their bedside cabinet in the states.

TheLunatickle@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 163d (1 reply)

Which war is that exactly?

INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 161d

Inb4 the culture war