that reminds me a bit of the Polish incident with liberum veto. in theory a good thing - those who could vote all had an equal voice to stop any Sejm gathering they wanted. but the obvious thing happened obviously - lower ranking nobles were getting bribed by domestic and foreign forces alike to veto new legislations seconds before they got signed, wasting days if not weeks of work, and basically stopping Polish politics in place. Poland only got our shit together too little and too late, in 1791 we got our constitution that finally removed liberum veto, but the damage was done, two years later the Second Partition happened

yeah democracy as it is most common today has its issues, sadly, and propaganda is easier to spread than ever. and the soviet system of rotating positions also ensured people that were easy to control because they were new to the job. i do wonder if there is any system that could work for us humans

i hope you stay safe in Russia, you sound highly aware of the motions in politics, and as you surely know the intelligence is often targeted first when a dictator wants to dictate without being questioned

even though it made me a little depressed - thank you for the explanation, this really sucks no matter how you look at it doesn’t it, ehhh

i genuinely cannot see how this improves anything. if they want to keep them kids in the dark about sexual stuff - how is pushing them to be exposed to most likely hardcore bdsm on the front page assuring that?

But overall, enforcement causes nearly half of users to stop searching for popular adult sites complying with laws and instead search for a noncompliant rival (48 percent) or virtual private network (VPN) services (34 percent), which are used to mask a location and circumvent age checks on preferred sites, the study found.

what a fucking surprise. now the teens only watch porn that is already skirting around laws just by virtue of existing. truly nobody could’ve ever imagined this would happen

jesus christ i’m so tired of stupid politicians