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Re: Porn sites are banning Texas

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Post by parpfish »

icyberbullyu wrote: post #10

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option three is that they see this legislation as the first step of an aggressive anti-porn campaign by the christian right.

right now it's age-verification under the guise of protecting kids. but the next demand will be to remove all non-hetero content. and then they'll ban porn completely.

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Post by givemeethekeys »

olliej wrote: post #15
icyberbullyu wrote: post #10

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No, they're doing that because there's no way to actually do what is being demanded safely. Again, parents should be (1) explaining porn to their kids when they get to the age where that might matter, and (2) be involved in parenting their kids. Alternatively, how would you propose a porn site do age verification that doesn't involve every porn site having giant databases of IDs and user photos? Moreover, as the big…

> Again, parents should be (1) explaining porn to their kids when they get to the age where that might matter, and (2) be involved in parenting their kids.

Speaking strictly on behalf of my friends and I from junior high, it's pretty self explanatory.

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Post by [deleted] »

wkat4242 wrote: post #3

The Netherlands is banning library genesis, Spain was banning telegram.. soon the icky way to use the internet will be via 24/7 VPN. But in what jurisdiction? It seems like everyone is banning something now.

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Re: Porn sites are banning Texas

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Post by 082349872349872 »

petre wrote: post #23
082349872349872 wrote: post #8

All our exes live in Texas And Texas is a place we dearly love the men But all our exes live in Texas And that's why they must browse us by VPN

This sounds a lot like Sixto Rodriguez.

Thanks! I reckoned more Kraut&Western: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmxnYkfKIIQ

(lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwti7-cEHh8 )

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Post by Ajay-p »

Is this not what Texas wanted? What I think will happen eventually is that the websites will cater to government restrictions in the name of profits. They may complain and protest but the money generated from pornographic viewing online is too great.

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Post by autoexecbat »

acchow wrote: post #18
icyberbullyu wrote: post #10

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No, they’re doing this because they know that if people had to provide an ID to access porn than web porn consumption would fall (especially consumption of the more extreme stuff, which is the most lucrative). They fear a rise of a porn black market which is non-monetizable.

It would just move off-shore, there would still be plenty of non-ID-required content

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Post by 0xcde4c3db »

icyberbullyu wrote: post #10

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They might also be weighing the risk that some governments aren't actually operating in good faith, and this is just the first phase of running the same playbook against porn vendors that has been run against abortion providers, i.e. a quagmire of messy, ever-changing, and contradictory "safety" regulations that eventually makes compliance impossible [1].

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140825061919/http://www.dayton...

Re: Porn sites are banning Texas

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Post by kelipso »

olliej wrote: post #15
icyberbullyu wrote: post #10

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No, they're doing that because there's no way to actually do what is being demanded safely. Again, parents should be (1) explaining porn to their kids when they get to the age where that might matter, and (2) be involved in parenting their kids. Alternatively, how would you propose a porn site do age verification that doesn't involve every porn site having giant databases of IDs and user photos? Moreover, as the big…

Explaining porn and hoping it will not affect kids negatively doesn't help when there's such easy access to porn everywhere. It's like explaining drugs to kids and there are drug dealers at every corner and a society that encourages drug use. Doesn't work.
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