But beating your wife is fine apparently
<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/30/russia-decriminalise-domestic-violence-laws" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/30/russia...</a>
At the same time Russia is the go to country for hosting "revenge porn" sites and image forums with stolen nude photos. Because that wouldn't damage the psyche of anyone?<p>Fine if you decide that porn is bad, I don't agree, but that's something the Russians need to work out for themself. It's the blatant lying and use of double standards that annoys me.
While I might find a lot niches of porn a little distasteful... or a lot distasteful in some cases, I think they're reaching a bit. Surely the kinds of people visiting these sites are already interested in seeing this kind of stuff... and thus are already 'damaged'. I feel like the cause and effect is being reversed somehow. Perhaps that's just me.<p>Edit for clarification: I used the word 'damaged' in reference to the parent post, it was not a word of my own choosing.
And unblocks YouPorn on the same day.<p>Source:<p><a href="https://twitter.com/roscomnadzor/status/828984752476651523" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/roscomnadzor/status/828984752476651523</a>
OK... but since when has Russia been moralistic about anything? Some of the nastiest most immoral webhosts on the planet ever have operated out of Russia for years.<p>Could this be Russian purveyors pulling strings to get "the competition" shut-out locally on some comically absurd moral pretext?
If you start to debate the merits or costs of porn to the human psyche, you've already lost.<p>Delegitimization and criminalization of vice is an old, old, old, old, old trick in the book to stir people up against a "degenerate" "other" as a means to engineer their consent for their leaders to accumulate power and wealth.<p>It also provides a convenient way for dissidents to be delegitimized or arrested when police "find" (i.e. plant) evidence of drugs/porn/what-have-you. Old trick, works as well today as it has for thousands of years.