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Hackers prove age verification systems on pornography sites can be bypassed in seconds (news.sky.com)

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Using widely available technology, well-known ethical hackers Chris Kubecka and Paula Popovici quickly accessed numerous pornography sites without ever verifying their ages.

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[–] FizzyOrange@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

I guess this might be hard to understand if you're asexual but my point is that young boys (and maybe girls) aren't "stumbling over porn". They're seeking it out.

If this was only meant to prevent stumbling over porn then the existing "are you over 18? [Yes] [no]" checks would be perfectly fine.

I do wonder if there is any study backing up my idea that porn is not harmful, it’s refusing to talk about what is healthy and what is not in a relationship and modeling bad interactions that is harmful.

Yeah maybe... Porn doesn't even try to depict normal relationships so I don't think it could really be distorting them, unlike films or creepy influencers like Andrew Tate.