/pol/ - International /Pol/itics & /Bant/er

The commercialization of porn should be banned. Banning porn distribution and especially ownership is a detriment to liberty. Both are obviously bad things and their absence would be an ultimate good, but enforcing laws to achieve it requires encroachment on unalienable rights such as privacy (sovereignty over one's life) and free speech. In order to control what information people have stored on their hard drives or communicate over the internet, you must have a mechanism by which to surveil and inhibit them.
Banning commercialization does not do these things, it only makes it difficult to economically profit and fund porn. That means an industry that's bigger than the NFL, NBA, and MLB combined stops funneling money out of the useful economy and into porn overnight.
It's similar to prostitution. Whores still exist and may even ask for money in their own privacy, but it prevents companies from forming around it and therefore public advertising and wider degeneration of the taboo surrounding it.
Additionally any ambiguous law encroaching free speech tends to be used by the word of the law and not the spirit. Take DMCA for example (ev&doe the spirit of that was arguably to encroach on liberty in the first place)