UK journalist and daughter of a Tory home secretary, Flora Gill, has landed in hot water online after she proposed to "create porn for children" in a tweet. In a separate post, she quickly corrected herself, saying she meant teens aged 14+.
Gill claimed that many underage children are watching porn regardless of whether they are prohibited from doing so, and argued that if they are doing it anyway, then they should watch "entry-level porn […] where everyone asks for consent and no one gets choked". The journalist added that most of the porn available online is "hard core, aggressive" and gives a "terrible view of sex".
It is not hard to predict what happened next – such a proposal quickly found stringent opponents, who soon filled in the comments section below her tweets. Gill, in turn, said she refused to be "swept up into another twitter cesspool", and deleted the controversial posts and urged everyone to take a deep breath.
Unfortunately for Flora Gill, the internet does not work that way and Twitterians ignored her pleas to pretend that these tweets never happened. Instead, screenshots of her posts resurfaced online, continuing to generate condemnation of the British journalist.
Some netizens suggested Gill did not really think over her posts before publishing them.
Others noted that the porn the journalist described, already exists. The issue is that teens can't get access them – that's why they opt for the free hardcore videos.
Several Twitterians jumped at the chance to point out that Flora Gill was the daughter of Tory MP and former Home Secretary Amber Rudd, who resigned from her post and did not run for a new term in the wake of a conflict over Boris Johnson's Brexit policies.