WI- there is no porn on the internet!

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While ASB I will say without the aduLt industry the Internet would have developed slower for business.
 
I don't think you could get pornography off the internet. The government couldn't even keep obscenity off the walls of the boys bathroom at my highschool. That said, I think you could have viewing ponography online (or maybe just distributing it) be illegal. Of course, as we all know, there are kinds of pornography that can't be legally viewed or distributed, but sadly people still find ways to get around the law. The solutions are likely to be similar. Darknet websites that requires secure encryption to view, "home made" imagery being more common relative to explicitly commerical productions, images or videos encrypted to hide them in other, seemingly innocuous files.

I think there would be several cultural effects. One would be less niche porn genres. I think without the huge amount of competition and market saturation, you're likely to have more of a "take what you can get" angle. Another is going to be a much more successful market for truly awful things like child pornography. With a huge illicit market/swapmeet by people looking for more ordinary pornography, the nastier stuff can probably hide in the cracks more easily. Indeed, it may be very difficult to tell what you are getting until it is actually downloaded and viewed. Also the protections for adult film workers that currently exist, though not perfect, would be completely absent. Performers in commercial pornography are likely to be involved in other sex work, have no guarantee of protection from disease, and no one is going to be concerned about being "barely legal" when none of it is legal at all. So many performers in pornography not aimed at pedophiles are likely to still be well under legal age.

The exact penalties for porn possession and distribution on their own and relative to other related offenses like prostituion or child pornography production or distribution are likely to change these impacts. If child porn gets you locked up for years, but other pornography gets you a $50 fine, you are likely to see a lot of self policing amongst distributors and consumers to maintain a distinction. If the penalties are very close, you are likely to see much less concern about keeping the worst elements out.
 
What US rules are certainly not going to change what the majority of internet users (as in ... all internet users not in US), much less non US companies does.

If US gets to arcane to early, other nations would simply get together establishing an official 'alt-net' which handles DNS rooting etc, which may or may not be disconnected from US (prehaps partially and prehaps one-way).

This though would probably not be nearly as bad as it seems as US is already running some pretty arcane things about what's acceptable to post, note the several disputes that there have been between the puritanian Facebook/Apple and more free-spirited Europeans which have been banned and the like for placing completly non-sexual topless shots (say historical pictures of Hippie era) up
 
you need the realise that the united states is not the world, and us rules mean nothing outside of it.

You do realize the Internet was invented in the USA and it was the US government that allowed it to become free-use to the American public and the world right? (it actually is true that Al Gore was the one to propose the law that made the Internet a non-governmental research/military project open to the public)

Until 2014 the US Department of Commerce controlled the majority of the ability to assign domain names (actually subcontracted until 1998 to the University of Southern California). ICANN, the subcontractor from 1998-2014 (and now the major polity in charge), is headquartered in California. The US government through the Department of Commerce still has significant oversight over the Internet far above and beyond the rest of the world's government's have. But yes the Internet is a vast and complicated place, but when it comes to maintaining ISPs and domain names, it is the US government working with international NGOs, not the US working with other governments.
 
Not going to happen. even here in Indonesia where porn is banned and blocked, people keep getting new ways to obtained or uploaded the stuff via the net. ;)
 
Sure, what today is known as the Internet was based on stuff made in USA, but there were several semi-independent 'nets around, and if US is to arcane to early someone might well suggest that they'll evolve one of the others instead of folding in under the US behemoth ... they might be based on APRANET just as the internet is, but they might also be based on CYCLADES, which would then be spearheaded by French universities and assorted european research facilities (CERN springs to mind).

Basicly, that APRANET was created in US have little to no influence on if others could create something similar or decide to run their own variant
 
You do realize the Internet was invented in the USA and it was the US government that allowed it to become free-use to the American public and the world right? (it actually is true that Al Gore was the one to propose the law that made the Internet a non-governmental research/military project open to the public)

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al gore made the internet ? really? LMAO/ PMSL

to explain to to you what i meant is, the us law stops at the us borders.
for example if a company does a deal with a customer in europe, european laws (of that persons country) applies due to a european union directive.
in short us laws only applies to the us, and when us law becomes more restrictive to use of the internet, the scenario that Sian suggested will happen. independent networks will appear, completely with their own DNSservers & assorted infrastructure to get it running.
 

Zek Sora

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"I'm fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there'd only be one website left, and it'd be called 'Bring Back the Porn'."

- Dr. Cox (I think)
 
"I'm fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there'd only be one website left, and it'd be called 'Bring Back the Porn'."

- Dr. Cox (I think)

2 websites, the other being Alternatehistory.com

biggest tl: WI porn had not been outlawed :p
 
Well, one thing is certain : Ron Jeremy would not be popular as of now.

But Playgirl, Playboy mags would be the replacement for all of this.
 
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