When ceiling fans and AC units requires an account, yeah, something’s wrong.

It’s not even that. Porn is just a bystander here. The first step is put in place a very large framework for making some form of verification mandatory on arbitrary services and sites under the guise of whatever (terrorism, child protection, and extremely niche content are good candidates). Once it’s in place, it becomes the new normal very quickly.

Then, as the government, you suddenly have the power to extend the provision of said system to whatever the fuck you want. That’s where things gets funky, and not the good kind.

They just need to get the fuck off of people’s life.

I did that once. Felt good. Still feels yucky though, with how deep this is ingrained into my brain.

If anything, I’m able to see how much of self-imposed harmful stuff I’ve been trained to consider not only normal, but a necessity. I believe there was no malice in the people that pushed these things/beliefs onto me, but being conscious of them is a good first step to differentiate with what to keep and what to let go. Even if I can’t fix myself, I can at least try not to push these onto others, should the occasion rise.

You can already generate 5s video for free with adobe firefly (two daily), and for static images, you could already do them for a long time on commodity hardware with your custom prompts.

This isn’t a fight they lost quickly, this is a fight they lost before showing up, but still showed up.