This is clearly unconstitutional.
Louisiana now requires a government ID to access Pornhub
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Re: Louisiana now requires a government ID to access Pornhub
#12As someone who started watching porn when he was 10 and wishes he hadn't, this seems like great news to me. Hopefully sites like reddit follow suit
Hopefully you'll focus on more than yourself. The issue is folks who will consume the media while shaming those in it. Nobody forced you to lie about your age, and these age checks are hard to do in a privacy preserving manner.
(I had a Maxim subscription when I was ten-ish, the issue was conditioning folks to only be attracted to airbrushed, surgery laden folks with heaps of makeup and gym routines that are only accomplishable if "being pretty" is your full time job, those issues are the same whether it's porn or "just" modeling.)
Re: Louisiana now requires a government ID to access Pornhub
#13As someone who started watching porn when he was 10 and wishes he hadn't, this seems like great news to me. Hopefully sites like reddit follow suit
I started probably as a 12 year old but don't regret it. That being said, I think the main thing for teens or whoever to understand is that these are actors and this is purely an entertainment production. Most women are not interested in non-emotional, non-intimate sex (although a small minority is), but watching porn at a young age might give you the impression that it's the case.
> I think the main thing for teens or whoever to understand is that these are actors and this is purely an entertainment production
Do you think that will be the case for the majority of preteens? Maybe once you become a teenager you can better understand, but the average age of first viewing porn is before the teenage years.
Re: Louisiana now requires a government ID to access Pornhub
#14>Motherboard confirmed, through a virtual private network, that Pornhub is showing people visiting the site from a Louisiana-based IP address a page that requires identity verification before entering. How'd they finangle that, every VPN I've used only let you select the country not the state?
ProtonVPN allows you to select a State.
Thanks I'll keep that in mind if I ever need to A/B test within the USA rather than per country.
Re: Louisiana now requires a government ID to access Pornhub
#15I think this will also be true for California and Texas in 2024 (not just porn, any website with user generated content)
It would actually be great, I know freedom and whatnot but raising someone through the puberty ages is really tricky right now. The social media stuff is almost worse than the porn, because banning your kid from it is blocking them from the main way their peers communicate. So you are left with the choice of letting their undeveloped brains get barraged by social media, or making them the odd one out at school.
Pervasive government surveillance and censorship "for the children" is not great.
Personally, I'd opt for teaching my kid to be the odd one out whenever it makes sense.
Re: Louisiana now requires a government ID to access Pornhub
#16This is clearly unconstitutional.
Is it unconstitutional to require an id to get a gun?
Re: Louisiana now requires a government ID to access Pornhub
#17I think this will also be true for California and Texas in 2024 (not just porn, any website with user generated content)
It would actually be great, I know freedom and whatnot but raising someone through the puberty ages is really tricky right now. The social media stuff is almost worse than the porn, because banning your kid from it is blocking them from the main way their peers communicate. So you are left with the choice of letting their undeveloped brains get barraged by social media, or making them the odd one out at school.
The answer to you having a difficult time parenting is for everyone to use a government issued id for any content you want to ban your kid from using?
Why not install filtering in your home router and kids cellphones?
Re: Louisiana now requires a government ID to access Pornhub
#18>Motherboard confirmed, through a virtual private network, that Pornhub is showing people visiting the site from a Louisiana-based IP address a page that requires identity verification before entering. How'd they finangle that, every VPN I've used only let you select the country not the state?
A lot of VPNs have multiple cities available in the U.S. I usually pick the one closest to me for lower latency. Mullvad is one.
Re: Louisiana now requires a government ID to access Pornhub
#19I'd be curious if sites like Reddit will run into issues. It's 33% of the content of the site to qualify.
Re: Louisiana now requires a government ID to access Pornhub
#2033% - typical boneheaded move from the usual suspects - how is this measured and who decides this ???.
Let me guess Texas and Florida will jump on this as well - will be interesting to see if this goes to the Supreme Court - afaik porn is protected as freedom of expression in the US is it not ???.