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  • Nibodhika@lemmy.world
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    22 hours ago

    No where. I like America.

    Fair enough

    What are my other options, realistically?

    Lots of them really

    Britain which just banned porn?

    No they didn’t, they just force age verification, which is also common in the USA. So you have the exact same “problem” there, but are missing the free healthcare, and other benefits from the UK in relation to the USA.

    Australia which banned Hentai?

    Yeah, Australia is weird, they also banned several games and similar stuff because they have a government that’s very focused on moral problems, much like the right wing in the USA, so I don’t think it will be long before the USA goes down this same rabbit hole of “won’t somebody please think of the children” and bans the same things.

    Canada, which is just America but cold and sky high housing costs?

    I don’t even know how to reply to this, the fact that you think that a country that consistently picks the complete opposite policies from the USA is the same means you have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about. It’s like if someone told you they don’t want to stop eating deep fried chicken because salad is just the same thing except cold and more expensive.

    • jimmux@programming.dev
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      38 minutes ago

      The reality in Australia is nothing like what the world seems to think it is. The dumb laws are just performative actions by populist politicians. If I recall, the game bans were mostly because of one politician who made it his personal crusade.

      Not much is actually enforced. Every time someone mentions one of these draconian Australian laws I have to check if it’s actually real. I hear about it more from US media trying to paint us as some kind of dystopia, probably because of our gun laws.

      We’re not perfect though. We could be doing much better with progressive legislation, but I feel more free here than I ever have in the US.