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FWIW, my reaction to the side-of-a-bus adverts for Saw franchise films in the UK was visceral disgust that there exist enough people who would buy tickets on the basis of those adverts to justify the existence of the adverts, let alone the films themselves — if I thought banning them would actually make any difference, I would call for exactly that!

I don't know of human psychology really works like the toy model in my head (probably not, typical mind fallacy), but that's a separate thing to my own affect.




Yeah, i would not watch willingly any of that content if even i were paid to do so. I pitty content moderators who have to filter through such content.


I would like daytime TV to be banned because of the harm it causes.




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