404 Media doesn’t require payment for a subscription. Their content is behind a subscriber wall to keep AI bots from accessing their work.

Same thing. Requiring my information to read their article is a paywall as they’re going to be selling my data.

Cheers!

Yeah this is destined to fail again (third times the charm I guess he thinks haha), and absolutely should.

Not quite. Pornography is pretty well defined, which is how the production and distribution of it can be legislated like it is.

The problem with bills/laws like this is that they intentionally leave what is banned entirely up to the government of the day by using vague language like “obscene content”. It’s not specifically banning pornography, but a government could use it to ban pornography, books, music, clothes, etc.

There already is a total lack of privacy online.

The definition of pornography isn’t the issue here as that has a long standing and pretty clear definition. The issue would be the wording of the bill as from the small bit I can see before the paywall block, it isn’t a ban on pornography but a vague ban on obscene content. Who gets to decide what is “obscene content” and how that is determined is the problem as it would be ripe for abuse by whichever party is in power. The government of the day could say that opposing political opinions are “obscene” and therefore banned.

Article is behind a paywall unfortunately. Is there a link to somewhere else?

If the bill is about actually banning pornography, they’ve got more chance of banning guns to be honest. Democrat and Republican voters alike love their porn, many a little (or a lot) too much.

Honestly it is probably the only thing that would cause a civil war haha

Doesn’t solve the problem of “default” communities with shitty mods.

Unfortunately Reddit and their mods/admins behaviour over the years show that the opposite will happen. When the Lemmy mods are already so militantly anti-open discussion and authoritarian, they’re not going to soften up - they’ll go even further towards the dictatorship they clearly desire.

I’d love to donate or even start contributing towards the code myself, but the current environment that is being fostered on the big “default” communities and instances is like Reddit on steroids, just speedrunning to the end game of mass bans and mod abuse - and I don’t envision myself wanting to be a part of that for too long. I wiped and deleted by 15+ year old reddit account because of what it had turned into.

I don’t know the solution, but something needs to be done at a system level to give users a way to remove mods and change how communities are managed.