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0 pointsMichaelZuo3y ago0 comments

Hmm that is a good point. It is forbidden to sign contracts of enslavement in every country I know of, even if the potential contractee is making it free from duress.

Therefore forbidding some types of contracts for everyone does have established precedent.

However, there does not appear to be a limit to this.

For example, can governments ban their residents from signing contracts to distribute or host porn, gambling, etc.?

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buran773y ago

> can governments ban their residents from signing contracts to distribute or host porn, gambling, etc.?

The question is always what do local laws say. Even in the US you have laws or court decisions that allow child marriage, non-revocable consent, upskirt photos, or regulate that men are allowed to show nipples but women aren't.

Other countries have equally outrageous (or reasonable, depending on your views) laws making something effectively (il)legal. So yes, governments can and do prohibit porn or gambling, or just the hosting and distribution. Laws and regulation can have a lot of purposes. They can protect you from abuse you may not even understand, or they can even protect the abusers.

scajanus3y ago

They could, but at the risk of losing public mandate, leading to a change of government and/or losing in the next elections.

In somewhat functional representative democracies, that is.

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