This pattern is so predictable, The Outlast Trials (2024) was based around it; your character is given trials based around fascist manipulation following this (“protect the children”) among many other patterns.
You are the shepherd, who would save the poor little lambs from Mother. Deliver them to the warm embrace of the Church, and we will let you out.
If I had to guess, I’d say the government pushback against porn is a result of members of the ruling class catching their offspring with porn.
I’d say it has more to do with pandering to religious conservatives to keep them in their pocket.
My vote is smoke screen, lots of nasty stuff can fly under the radar with all this talk on porn, vpn and privacy rights
This pattern is so predictable, The Outlast Trials (2024) was based around it; your character is given trials based around fascist manipulation following this (“protect the children”) among many other patterns.
If I had to guess, they don’t care at all about porn and are using this as a pretext to censor sites that talk about LGBTQIA+ people.
And also to block access to any sex ed content that talks about how to protect yourself from predators.
Actually it was pushed by some AI corp, to sell AI for verification purposes, alongside other bad faith actors.
Or by some other fly-by-night identity-verifcation company.
Transgender people are in the crosshairs and have been for a couple of years for now.