> Alternatively, social media platforms can ban pornography. Facebook, Instagram and TikTok (amongst others) already do this; the problem is they don't enforce these bans. My perspective on this is that if you can't effectively moderate your social media platform in accordance with the social norms of your users' surrounding social context, then you shouldn't be operating a social media platform, and if you strongly disagree with your users' social context (e.g., users in, say, Iran), then you shouldn't offer your platform to them.
Regular pornography isn't bad. The problem is that sites like fetlife full of consensual adult content would be hugely undermined by all their users having to identify themselves. A lot of users are new to the community and very iffy about being exposed due to e.g. a hack. With good reason, not every place is as open-minded. But it gives people a way to truly express themselves. These sites are really important.
Banning pornography on mainstream social media is a very heavy-handed move too imo. I'm glad reddit still allows it.
Regular pornography isn't bad. The problem is that sites like fetlife full of consensual adult content would be hugely undermined by all their users having to identify themselves. A lot of users are new to the community and very iffy about being exposed due to e.g. a hack. With good reason, not every place is as open-minded. But it gives people a way to truly express themselves. These sites are really important.
Banning pornography on mainstream social media is a very heavy-handed move too imo. I'm glad reddit still allows it.