Hacker News Reader

Comment by harshreality | Hacker News Reader

I doubt Google cares about keeping people from seeing nudity or porn. They probably care a lot more about the legal consequences of distributing porn apps, and the market consequences if religions try to get everyone to boycott Chromecast because it's sinful.

View on HN

"and the market consequences if religions try to get everyone to boycott Chromecast because it's sinful."

I doubt Google cares about that. We live in a heavily secularized world today.

I am not religious but that does not mean I think its fine to watch porn. Much of the porn out there is absolutely disturbing (rape and what not) and the people who produce that grabage are the worest of the worest. Not all of it is that way of course but even the "classy" stuff is unhealthy in my opinion. I don't think the goverment should ban porn or anything but I have zero problems private companies banning it on their platforms.

Banning porn is not the same as banning rape.

I hate the racist materialism of the Disney Channel, and the ecologically abusive NASCAR. Let's have Google ban that, shall we?

I don't usually do this but...

> I think its fine to watch porn.

and

> ... but even the "classy" stuff is unhealthy in my opinion.

Seem to be directly contradictory. Unless you're saying its a-okay to do unhealthy things every so often [which is also valid].

The original quote was "but that does _not_ mean I think its fine to watch porn" (emphasis added).

Reply on news.ycombinator.com