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[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 263 points 10 months ago (7 children)

How is it these laws can get passed but our legislatures can’t do anything that’s actually important for society? 

[–] paddington@lemmy.world 262 points 10 months ago (17 children)

It's so much worse than that. North Carolina House Bill 8 was created a year ago to add Computer Science to middle school and high school curriculums. Throughout it's 3 edits over the year, all 10 pages of the bill were about teaching kids computer science. Then, ONE WEEK before the bill was passed, a paragraph on the last page was added including the text requiring age verification for adult websites. https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookup/2023/H8

At that point it was too late, and anyone against the bill would be called out for being against teaching kids computer science. The cowards writing these bills know that they would be shot down immediately if they were public about what they were doing, so they tack it on to a children's education bill and hope no one notices until it's too late.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 183 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That kind of shit should really be illegal

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 110 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It is illegal where I live. I imagine it's illegal in most developed countries. Bills can only have one purpose, they can't combine unrelated things.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

I've heard of several cases in the USA where they combine unrelated things to mess with voters. Even this one is kinda related but school education plus internet censorship. Split that shit up and let the people vote for what they want.

Edit: it's a rider

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 75 points 10 months ago (2 children)

"Several cases?" Lol

Virtually every bill that passes in Congress contains riders and typically only passes because of those riders.

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[–] Smacks@lemmy.world 165 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

Republicans doing a real good job giving a peek into what voting Red will do for them this year

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 10 months ago

The children are saved and wont see porn ever /s

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[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 156 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (108 children)

Yeah bruh, I try to avoid porn. Personal decision. PERSONAL. Stay the fuck out of everyone’s goddamn lives. Fucking fascist republican swine.

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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 141 points 10 months ago

Christian taliban

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 119 points 10 months ago

Classic big government nanny state move. That political party which claims to be against this sort of overreach must be upset over it, right?

[–] Ibex0@lemmy.world 104 points 10 months ago (9 children)

Imagine linking your porn watching to your government ID? It WILL leak, and you'll be embarrassed. 😳

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 92 points 10 months ago (7 children)

VPN companies don't need much advertising these days. The customers will come by themselves!

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 46 points 10 months ago

The customers will come by themselves!

Nice.

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 89 points 10 months ago (13 children)

It's real generous of these states to boost business for VPN companies like this

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[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 83 points 10 months ago (4 children)
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[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 69 points 10 months ago (9 children)

best of all, this strategy isn't going to decrease viewership, probably increase it. it's also going to increase the usage of vpn's.

[–] Socsa@sh.itjust.works 38 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

VPNs will be their next target. This isn't an accident. They are setting up the framework for China like internet censorship laws, but they are going to take this way fucking farther than China ever has. They are building a system for state laws to establish interstate autocracy on the foundation of abortion and trans panic.

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[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 67 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (15 children)

Well I guess it's back to the garbage bag of porn mags in the woods for North Carolina and Montana kids.

Seriously tho, who is this law stopping? When I was a kid I would traverse the entire city if it meant there was a chance I'd see a boob.

If I had to start torrenting porn I would probably develop a serious habit from having to curate my own library. I would also gain full access to videos I normally wouldn't bother with making everything even more involved.

The beauty of pornhub is you load it up, do some minor browsing, settle on something and forget all about it. Having to maintain a personal library would consume more of your time and you would develop even more intense prefrences.

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[–] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 65 points 10 months ago (2 children)

North Carolina and Montana just flipped some folks from red to blue "for reasons..."

[–] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 66 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 62 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's ridiculous that elected officials can be so unbelievably fucking stupid.

What a fucking waste of tax dollars

[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 61 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Lol I was just in Utah and on a home wifi there, pornhub was blocked (100% blocked, like you cannot access the site).

But if I switched to data, it was not blocked

Lol -- how's that working out for ya, Utah??

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[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 59 points 10 months ago (10 children)

In Virginia, they are required to gather personal information and that’s weird. So its just not available here. But when you think of it, porn hub went to great lengths to minimize the problems with the industry. And these sort of regulations are doing the same thing that prohibition did. Push normal citizens into interacting with seedy elements, dangerous situations, and exploitation.

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[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 54 points 10 months ago

In other news: Reports of malware on home users' PCs spike in North Carolina and Montana.

[–] The_Worst@feddit.nl 50 points 10 months ago (2 children)

In only a couple of years girls aren't allowed to go to school anymore.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago

I hope those hosts provide a nice greeting page explaining which politicians are guilty of this, and how sneaky their underhand rider was abusing the legal system.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago (5 children)

"Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.[20]" — "A Promise to America", Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 5, Project 2025

[–] Mango@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago (3 children)
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[–] DBT@lemmy.world 41 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, the other sites are promoting trans anal piss porn, so that’s what I’m into now I guess, since that’s the only option.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (6 children)

Don't worry, yiff (furry porn) always makes it past safe search and content blockers, so you will have at least one other category. I'm sure that blocking mundane porn won't backfire at all :)

[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 48 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The world isn't ready for conservative furry states.

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[–] Mango@lemmy.world 39 points 10 months ago

So what are they gonna do? Figure out how to bill companies all over the world for not knowing their local bullshit and accommodating it? Fucking clowns.

[–] zxk@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago (12 children)

North Carolina and Montana, why you so dumb?

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[–] HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Party of small gubermnt

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