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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 18 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] BadmanDan@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ya see, up north, we believe in a lil thang called FREEDOM! 😎

[–] skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 days ago

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...

[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 92 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Remember when conservatives complained about the nanny state?

[–] Serinus@lemmy.world 28 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] phar@lemmy.ml 23 points 4 days ago

Republicans love big government, they just want the same or more power concentrated amongst less people. They're all about that shit.

[–] Pacattack57@lemmy.world 74 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] Vandals_handle@lemmy.world 87 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works 77 points 4 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 23 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Afaik Pornhub is based in Québec, which has data privacy/protection laws through law 25 (French, will need to translate it). I've had some experience with it on some projects in the last few years, would not surprise me if that was contributing to the decision as well. I'm assuming they would still need to adhere to law 25 and whatever local laws in locations they operate in, could totally be wrong there.

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[–] pedroapero@lemmy.ml 48 points 4 days ago

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).

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

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.

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[–] BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 200 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Kcap@lemmy.world 68 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Interracial gay porn. FTFY

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[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 171 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I guess the South is going to have a harder time rising now.

[–] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 63 points 4 days ago

Welp. back to working on them thar siblings and relatives then.

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 55 points 4 days ago (5 children)

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.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 24 points 4 days ago

Regardless of any shitposting, just being forced to hand your ID docs to your Facebooks, Reddits, Twitters, etc with their track record of processing data is not an attractive proposition.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 106 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The party of small government

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago (11 children)

The Red States are turning into the fucking PRC. Carry on...

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[–] nifty@lemmy.world 94 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 74 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 20 points 3 days ago (3 children)

So… wait. How will conservatives watch all their sister porn now?

[–] bhamlin@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Like any god fearing christian; by asking her first.

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[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 9 points 3 days ago

by peeping through the blinds.

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 15 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (6 children)

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

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[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 55 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

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.

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[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 20 points 4 days ago (4 children)

e621 was blocked in my state and... then they realized the law wasn't being enforced and unblocked themselves

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 60 points 4 days ago (2 children)

lol .... as if .... I'm sure there is a boom in subscriptions for VPN services in the south at the same time .... especially for every political office holder at every level of government

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago

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.

[–] orcrist@lemm.ee 49 points 4 days ago (1 children)

If only someone could invent a VPN. One of these days...

[–] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 46 points 4 days ago (9 children)

VPNs will be declared terrorists' tools within the month.

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[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago (18 children)

on the bright side at least torrenting will become more mainstream 😅

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[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 45 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (27 children)

But how will the south watch all that transexual porn they love so much?

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