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Yh, I don't like that my generation was the first to be exposed to freely available and copious amounts of porn. But on the flip side the internet is sooooooo useful and I would not endorse any government saying what should or shouldn't be on the internet, the internet should be free and censorship would be a very slippery slope.
It's a tough moral debate and I'm really not sure what the answer is.
In general, I'm against "censorship." There's also no reason why we should allow non consensual porn to be circulated. Abolishing online porn entirely would instantly solve the question of "revenge porn" and whether consent was obtained.
There's a certain amount of logic to the idea that you should allow bad people to feel free to express themselves so they can be identified, but I don't think that fully holds up with porn and can lead to women being harmed. Girls who are 18-22 aren't in a position to fully resist the temptation being offered by a lot of sex work possibilities. They haven't learned about money yet and getting offered "a lot" in the short term is going to be too hard for them to weigh against selling out their future at that age. For every "empowered sex worker" out there who makes a good living and really wants to be in that work, there are many more who were exploited or got into it because of mental illness or trauma. Commodification of sex is ultimately a feature of the capitalist system.