Starting November 12, Italians will need to prove they’re 18 before seeing a naked body online. The official excuse: “protecting minors”. The real reason: control.
48t sites, including Pornhub, Xvideos, OnlyFans, Chaturbate, must submit to Agcom’s new decree, born out of the Decreto Caivano, a law inspired by a tragic crime that had absolutely nothing to do with pornography. When politicians want to expand surveillance, they always borrow someone’s tragedy.
They call it the “principle of double anonymity”, as if slapping privacy vocabulary on censorship makes it noble. In reality, it means yet another layer of digital ID management: an external company verifying your age before you can even think about desire. A bureaucratic condom on your internet connection.
Porn has always been the testing ground for censorship. In the 19th century they banned erotic books “to defend morality”. In the 20th century, films were cut frame by frame in the name of “decency”. Now they regulate pixels under “child protection”.
Every age uses lust as an excuse to police freedom. Because sex is the most private act, and the easiest way to make people surrender privacy “for the greater good”.
Today it’s porn. Tomorrow it’s “disinformation”. Then “tax evasion,” “hate speech,” or “unverified finance”. Once you normalize identity checks for arousal, identity checks for opinions are just a software update away.
Porn is freedom. Crusades against porn are attacks to our freedom.
Italy's got this longstanding habit of dressing up submission as "civility". But that's just the gradual strangling of what it means to be an adult.
A state that needs to see your ID before letting you fantasize is not protecting you, it's reminding you who’s in charge.
Source article: 48 siti porno non saranno più “liberamente” accessibili in Italia, servirà dimostrare di avere 18 anni
48t sites, including Pornhub, Xvideos, OnlyFans, Chaturbate, must submit to Agcom’s new decree, born out of the Decreto Caivano, a law inspired by a tragic crime that had absolutely nothing to do with pornography. When politicians want to expand surveillance, they always borrow someone’s tragedy.
They call it the “principle of double anonymity”, as if slapping privacy vocabulary on censorship makes it noble. In reality, it means yet another layer of digital ID management: an external company verifying your age before you can even think about desire. A bureaucratic condom on your internet connection.
Porn has always been the testing ground for censorship. In the 19th century they banned erotic books “to defend morality”. In the 20th century, films were cut frame by frame in the name of “decency”. Now they regulate pixels under “child protection”.
Every age uses lust as an excuse to police freedom. Because sex is the most private act, and the easiest way to make people surrender privacy “for the greater good”.
Today it’s porn. Tomorrow it’s “disinformation”. Then “tax evasion,” “hate speech,” or “unverified finance”. Once you normalize identity checks for arousal, identity checks for opinions are just a software update away.
Porn is freedom. Crusades against porn are attacks to our freedom.
Italy's got this longstanding habit of dressing up submission as "civility". But that's just the gradual strangling of what it means to be an adult.
A state that needs to see your ID before letting you fantasize is not protecting you, it's reminding you who’s in charge.
Source article: 48 siti porno non saranno più “liberamente” accessibili in Italia, servirà dimostrare di avere 18 anni
