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Canada saw what was happening in the US South and decided the they need a friend. Canada is the process of passing their own "Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography Act".
I feel like if there was some type of course that would teach young people about sex and porn in a healthy manner. We could call it "sex education". This would be far better use of tax payers money instead of knee jerk bans and overreaching privacy violations.
Ya see, up north, we believe in a lil thang called FREEDOM! 😎
Ahem, good Internet person. In the south, freedom is going STRONG. It is taking away jobs, revenue (ex:PorhHub), medication, rights, health, safety, life, and freedom. Er...ah...um...
The Red States are turning into the fucking PRC. Carry on...
I wish, I’d move there if they had half the benefits they do in the PRC. Universal healthcare, maternity leave, sick leave of multiple months, unions in all companies, workers councils in all corporations, rent controls, price controls… man, please let your comment come true.
I’d move there if they had half the benefits they do in the PRC. Universal healthcare,
Taiwan has universal healthcare. China has a crappy employer based health care system.
So… wait. How will conservatives watch all their sister porn now?
Like any god fearing christian; by asking her first.
They would need to learn the meaning of consent first...
by peeping through the blinds.
Remove the word porn and you probably have the answer.
It would be a great time to be a VPN company right now.
Edit: On second thoughts, this is great, because it normalizes VPN usage too
Not for long, with Net Neutrality forever murdered yesterday, ISPs will soon be blocking VPNs with aplomb and pushing their own. The whole Internet will become airplane WiFi.
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And you thought DMCA notices were annoying!
Remember when conservatives complained about the nanny state?
Republicans love big government, they just want the same or more power concentrated amongst less people. They're all about that shit.
Always just an excuse to get rid of the things they don't like, such as social security.
They absolutely want to regulate you on a federal level. They just want to decide which things get enforced/funded, and which should be left to the states/community/church, or what they really mean, nothing.
They want to control you on everything.
That's not enough butter for that, that's too much gay for this. They never wanted small government. They always wanted big government with the exact same ideals they have.
"You have too much pep in your step! 5 lashings for you!"
So people better understand: Pornhub did not get banned by law. There is a law that requires porn sites to verify age with IDs in many southern states. Instead of complying Pornhub location banned themselves.
I work for municipal government in Texas and I'm not allowed to write down or take a picture of someone's DL number or date of birth, which is a bitch when we're trying to cite a contractor named Jose Gonzales for illegal construction.
You left the most important part out; why is PornHub not complying? Understanding the situation requires knowing the very real concerns about privacy and data security as compliance requires keeping copies of IDs on file for verification.
IOW: Pornhub refuses to attempt to secure the PII of everyone who wants to visit the site. It's not within their scope and any website that agrees to do this bullshit is suspect as fuck.
Especially for something socially embarrassing. That's just building a blackmail database. Sure, porn use isn't going to significantly compromise a lot of people, but for some that could end marriages and careers.
Particularly if one were to stray out of the heterosexual category. I wouldn't put it past any of those states.
This rule is a trap. They are supposed to do it but there is no way to do this reliably (not even mentioning privacy issues).
e621 was blocked in my state and... then they realized the law wasn't being enforced and unblocked themselves
Others have mentioned already - the issue here isn't porn sites being banned, but states mandating age verification and the privacy concerns related to that verification.
I'm not sure I even care about an age limit being enforced for pornography, but doing so will necessitate de-anonymizing internet traffic (further) and make private browsing less feasible. There are other laws being proposed that would require personal identity verification on social media sites, too, and that would be the death of lemmy and any other anonymous shitposting sites that are left.
Yeah i am not letting PH verify my ID just to view porn. I dont trust it and i feel it violates my privacy.
on the bright side at least torrenting will become more mainstream 😅
So what I'm reading is that VPN business is going to continue to thrive. But that also is an age limit hurdle, I suppose.
Picture conservative white southern men who never got their GED trying to frantically Google what a VPN is, because they're missing their interracial porn before the Klan meeting that night.
Traffic in truck stop bathrooms and motels near Sunday schools has spiked dramatically as the access to porn sites has gone down... Very weird coincidence.