Remember when conservatives complained about the nanny state?
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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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.
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.
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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.
I guess the South is going to have a harder time rising now.
Welp. back to working on them thar siblings and relatives then.
This is asinine, even when internet access to porn didn’t exist people had so much porn, and they’ll continue to get it. All this does is shift the business elsewhere.
Yeah pornhub seems pretty legitimate and safe these days.
All these bans do is force people to go to sketchier websites which don't have as thorough vetting process for their videos and likely have a lot more illegal / harmful content.
Or VPN
The secret cabal of lobbyists actually responsible for the bans.
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/s, in case it was really necessary
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And yet when we pointed out that Project 2025 talked about banning porn, a lot of people didn't think it was serious. This is just one way that such an idea can play out.
I don't think porn could ever be fully banned - prohibition doesn't work. (Besides, I already made a promise to create erotic art specifically in order to spite any such enacted law.) But considering how modern porn and its variety has enabled many people to acquire niche preferences, this is still going to trigger a challenging time for a lot of people.
If this plays out like it's played out in other countries the only people who will actually be prevented from accessing pornography will be lawmakers, because they'll be the only people not tech savvy enough to be able to circumvent the restrictions.
They'll just offer their nephew some robux and a job in state legislature in exchange for a couple felonies
Would you like to share any of your art?
If only someone could invent a VPN. One of these days...
Now they can all rest easy that their liitle romps with their sister-cousins won't be seen by the rest of the family
For every 1 porn site that has to comply with US regulations there are 100 that don’t and they won’t implement any IP blocks. Absurd that they really think this will have any effect.
But now they can legitimate all sort of bullshit measures to enforce that law. It will have an effect. Just not the one you expected.
it's a foot in the door for online surveillance. has little to do with porn
But how will the south watch all that transexual porn they love so much?
Side subject, sorry for my aside: I'm starting to really get annoyed at the censorship on my instance.
Weird, I'm a .world account too and I see what the comment said just fine
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Literally 1984
One of the things that stuck out to me while reading in school was the sexual frustration part
I hope PH is putting a list with the names of the representatives who are responsible for this on the home page for those states. With phone numbers and mail addresses of the reps offices.
How utterly bizarre.
Malicious intentions. They're trying to normalize internet ID laws.