• iegod@lemmy.zip
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    24 days ago

    Interesting, but not sure the data proves the headline. The best they can say is that such searches originating from red states are a significant portion of all US searches.

    Obsessed: no definition or evidence to support this.

    Republicans: not a definitive connection, though plausible.

    I don’t want to say this is irresponsible reporting, but it’s not factually accurate either.

    • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      It’s bait. Take a vague dataset, and draw overgeneralized conclusions from it to play into people’s biases and hostilities.

      And people LOVE it. They want to believe that republicans are all evil transphobes who are sitting around masturbating at trans porn all day, because it makes them feel good about themselves to setup these strawmen compare themselves too.

      The truth of course, is far more nuanced and complex, but people don’t want to learn. They want to hate-masturbate and ego-stroke.

      Oh and let’s not forget, all religion is bad and evil and hates sex!

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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      24 days ago

      Yeah not to mention some of the data for searches for porn coming from states with age age verification checks are using VPN’s to other states. (Like 80% of porn hub traffic from Louisiana dropped after the age verification laws, and VPNs went up across the board, as in those users likely were not just showing up as users from other states)