Texas

Elect better leadership. A state government run by a criminal mafia isn't going to operate in your best interest.

Edit: Of course I've got some raging prick cussing me out below because I said go vote. You can't even tell a Texan to vote without them giving up. This is the reasons the Republicams run this state. The voter suppression they cause can be overcome with effort, which was my point.

But the voter suppression caused by the apathy and laziness of the masses is not something that can be overcome from external forces. So either spend your effort in response to this crying about voting being impossible or work to coordinate.

I already know the outcome after having this conversation in Texas constantly for the last 20 years.

Government not allowing me, a grown adult to watch porn is called FREEDOM!

Only thing that stops a bad guy with pornography is a good guy with pornography

I'm fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there'd only be one website left, and it'd be called "Bring back the porn!"

The party of personal freedom 😂

You know, you can just open the Brave Brower, click a button get a new private window with tor, which gives you a random IP, which bypasses many targeted IP/location restrictions. This is free compared to VPNs, which will cost money to get around these restrictions.

Just say if you need to nut Texas, Brave has got your back.

Can our elected officials just freaking decriminalize weed instead of worrying about dumb crap like this?

Apparently that is too "woke" an idea for Texas, and what doesn't appear to be too "woke" for Texas is letting you, an adult, watch porn.

Protecting, say, 17 year olds from deliberate access to porn is weird when you think about it. If they want porn, they are post-pubescent and therefore sexually mature.

"You are not 18 therefore you cannot have sexual interests" is a weird take on the face of it.

Maybe lock up the weird/dangerous stuff, and make it hard for little kids to see, but otherwise, knock yourself out.

Someone who gets the verification database will be able to blackmail people. Will have a picture of you and that you watch XYZ kinky porn.

Nope. Because didn't you know? Porn is why society is in decline and why Millennials and Gen Z are having fewer children—not climate denialism, the rise of theofascism, or the constant attacks on people's autonomy.

And porn is why people aren't getting married as often—not because they've found healthier ways to have meaningful relationships.

And porn causes people to get addicted—nevermind the vast majority of psychologists and experts who don't agree that it's even possible to get addicted to porn; we should only listen to the relatively few theistic ones who support that notion.

And porn promotes human trafficking and abuse of minors, something I'm sure Republicans have no first-hand experience with and aren't regularly caught engaging in, and a greater problem I'm sure they're addressing by prosecuting and not hiding the perpetrators...

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OP is criminally horny. And indecisive.

I mean, this is a constant problem with legislation. This, and enforcement.

You make it illegal to do something because we need to protect the children and only those willing to break the rules will be able to deliver on the thing that people want.

This already happened recently to smoking, specifically vaping, and I'm all too familiar with the arguments. But if I can take an example from vaping.... They wanted to outlaw flavors, and largely failed. Bluntly, there's already laws, which lack any semblance of effective enforcement, which prohibits people who are underage from buying, owning and using any tobacco products.... More or less, depending on your specific country/state/province/region/county/whatever. But history has shown that tobacco products end up in the hands of underage people regardless of this. Whether because the cashier at the local smoke/vape/whatever shop or convenience store or gas station or whatever, didn't give enough of a flying fuck to deny someone because they "did not have their ID with them" or didn't even care enough to bother asking for it. I can't blame them, pissing off a passing customer who might be armed, could be violent, may have anger, violence, or homicidal issues, just because some fat fuck behind a desk says no, risking the rare chance that the person could be participating in an investigation which will result in a "hefty" (though not hefty) fine at worst, one which they won't have to pay, doesn't really give the best motivation for giving any shits about the law.

But upstanding law abiding organizations trying to do their best to comply with the laws are punished by trying to make these fuckers happy. It's not worth the trouble.

In the case of vaping, black market/street vapes have no regulation to protect the users. I followed almost every case of "vaping caused x respiratory problem for this person", and in every instance that I could track beyond the initial report, it was discovered that the individuals were buying their shit from illegal operations, who put God knows what additives into the shit they sell, and frequently, if I could get enough information on it, the result was that some bullshit illegal additive caused the problem, not the legit ingredients that are supposed to be in a vape, as governed by law. Those additives have no place being inhaled, and for good reason, they damage your lungs. But mass media's one-and-done style of reporting, never, ever, fucking follows up and the public who don't bother doing any goddamned research of their own start to think all vaping products are bad because reasons.

To bring it back on point. Sites like porn hub, have benign ads. I'm sure we've all experienced the bullshit ads at one point or another that seem to rip you out from where you're browsing and they take over your screen with some crap like "you have a virus, call our (scam) center to fix it".... On legitimate websites (pornhub included) these ads don't exist. If you spend as much time on shady websites as I do, you would know that such browser hijacks still exist. The only thing this law will do is make it extremely difficult to use any legitimate website, pushing people to use less reputable sources for their porn, and leading them right into the waiting arms of scammers and con-artists. This kind of idiotic policy erodes public safety.

IMO, this shit is happening and keeps happening because the law makers are ignorant of how this shit actually works, they don't understand behavioral patterns, and the media reinforces their fears and the fears of their constituents with their one-and-done sensationalist news stories that never get any kind of follow up.

HornPub should also tag along a voter registration link as a giant fuck you to Texistan republicans

"I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called ‘Bring back the porn!’"

I feel like this is the extreme place they feel they needed to go after "accidentally" jerking it to some tranny porn, one to many times

... and the Texas' joke of a government back tracks in 3, 2, 1...

Did they at least put a nice note on their homepage for the victims? As in "This outage was caused by the stupid ideas of the following congressmen (list of culprits) and senators (other list of culprits). Remember those names at the next election."

I find this is a little ironic after the whole PH amateur video purge, which just pushed all those videos onto platforms with much worse moderation & oversight. And now they literally use the same type of argumentation that was used against them back then to criticize the dumbfucks in Texas?

My guess is rape rate will increase

https://slate.com/culture/2006/10/proof-that-internet-porn-prevents-rape.html

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