WASHINGTON — In a column published Friday, the Tucker Carlson-founded right-wing news site Daily Caller advocates for the censorship of adult content, using extremely derogatory terms to describe adult creators and calling for “nuking” porn sites to achieve a “complete and total shutdown.”
The extremist position is endorsed by a pseudonymous columnist known as Mr. Right, who holds the title of “Daily Caller Masculinity Consultant.”
“We need a complete and total shutdown of e-harlots bragging online about sleeping with hundreds of men in a matter of just weeks, sometimes even a day,” the Daily Caller column begins.
According to the piece, “In a healthy, morally upright society, women would not be flaunting their body count online so shamelessly, and they certainly would not be pulling off degenerate stunts for money or social media engagement.”
In such a “healthy society,” the columnist continues, “There wouldn’t even be porn platforms such as OnlyFans. Men, too, would not be participating in these escapades, nor would they be paying to watch them. It’s complete degeneracy.”
The term “degeneracy” and the pseudo-medical assignment of “healthy” and “unhealthy” labels to social behavior and art both echo rhetoric used by fascist regimes in the 20th century to target disfavored groups as “inferior.”
“You could argue that humans have always been this degenerate,” the Daily Caller columnist continues. “But have they ever been this degenerate in full view of the public, in full view of potentially billions of eyeballs on the internet? No, because the modern social media age has completely demolished the distinction between public and private.”
The column also condemns OnlyFans subscribers as “fat losers who have no life outside the virtual world,” and implies that women who choose sex work are abnormal, lamenting that “social media has also become a pipeline for otherwise normal women to slowly turn to soft-core, even hard-core, pornography to attract male attention and men’s wallets.”
The column concludes with a proposal for “nuking porn sites and having stricter regulations, even outright bans, on social media,” which the writer justifies by claiming the current situation is “destructive to the women who participate and the feckless men who enable it” and “will do great harm to society over the long term.”
The solution proposed by the Daily Caller: “Complete and total shutdown.”
