Are porn algorithms feeding a generation of paedophiles – or creating one?

This kind of argument always works on at least 30% of people in casual conversation though, at least US/english speaking european society has been obsessed with panicking about this in some form or other pretty much indefinitely. In fact, before Ulysses and the supreme court case about it, the U.S. postal service was literally censoring media that it deemed possibly able to influence a dangerous person into fantasizing about doing dangerous things. Not to make this a conversation about the U.S., but this kind of moral panic about things that are clearly in the realm of fantasy becoming indistinguishable to things that are real to people is insulting, absurd and a completely evidence-free argument that relies entirely on vibes and yet maddeningly is absolutely everywhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._One_Book_Called_Ulysses

Like, this is how dumb this shit is. People were afraid reading some veryyyy dense erotic literature was going to rise up wild uncontrollable desires in the masses and cause society to crumble. This isn't a joke, serious people wearing serious costumes stood in the halls of power spending hours and hours deliberating, worrying and carrying out state violence according to a fear of this. Countless people have hurt their loved ones because they were sure this is how the human brain works.

Never has this train of thought ever been anything other than a dangerous delusion.