Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022
This mentality change goes far beyond porn. A decade ago comment sections like Slashdot and Hacker News were almost unanimously in favor of keeping the internet as unregulated and open as possible.<p>Now it seems like every headline about social media companies attracts a lot of comments demanding regulations, restrictions, and laws to crack down on... something. Even here on HN it&#x27;s common for threads about Meta to devolve into a lot of angry calls for Facebook to be &quot;banned&quot; for kids or for lawmakers to step in and regulate.<p>Meanwhile, journalists and politicians <i>love</i> to amplify stories about tech companies doing harm to kids. Allowing, or even encouraging, something like porn on your platform is an open invitation for these journalists to put you in their sights. No company wants to be the most lax company in the space, so it&#x27;s a constant game of companies tightening their standards.