[ExI] Internet age verification spreads worldwide

[spike at rainier66.com]

...
>
> On 02/09/2025 20:32, Adrian Tymes wrote:
>
> Not disagreeing with the rest of what you said, but this - 
> specifically, the target of exposing minors to pornography - has been 
> studied, and while not all of the claims (by any stretch) were found 
> true, a nonzero amount did hold up.  I asked an AI to summarize...


Adrian, there is an important aspect to this that I seldom see mentioned: marketing.

As pornography has become more freely available at all levels online, it is easy to see it has lost its efficacy as an element of advertising.  Compare ads made in the 1950s and 1960s, particularly for products aimed at men.  Soft core pornography everywhere, right at the edge of what societal taste would allow and endure, just everywhere in ads.  So along comes the internet, porno is suddenly free, and in ever increasing quantities, for there is only one style of nekkid.  Digital images never wear out, the content doesn't change.

All this creates a new and difficult challenge for advertisers, for a quick look at 1960s ads for stuff like cigarettes and liquor now just can't insert the images, and cannot compete with free.  So now... how are they to sell the tobacco and liquor.  Such a crisis.  Think of all the money going tragically unmade.

spike