Shining a light on a problem is good, directing people to resources where they can seek help is also fine. The problem I have with this article is that it steers into policy with statements like:
“Experts are urgently calling for a national strategy on pornography”
and the ambiguous claim that:
"the government aren’t doing [enough].”
What role are they implying that government should have in any of this? By and large it seems like governments generally tend to respond to “addiction problems” with some form of ban. Anti-porn legislation seems to amount to poorly drafted, ill-considered blunt instruments that also seem very likely to cause more problems than the issues they claim to address (and often backed by dubious special interests that clearly have other agendas). They present the claim that it’s:
“Not an anti-porn crusade”
But the article doesn’t mention any other kind of action or involvement the government might take in response to the problem.
Articles that cover subjects as controversial and consequential as this should be especially careful and informative in the way they discuss them otherwise they run the risk of merely fanning the flames.
[Edited for clarity]
I do think you’re absolutely right. I know people doing exactly that — checking out — and it does seem like a common response. It is understandable, a lot of people just can’t deal with all that garbage being firehosed into their faces, and the level of crazy ratcheting up through the ceiling. And that reaction of checking out is one of the intended effects of the strategy of “flooding the zone”. Glad you pointed that out.