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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.
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.
No. They wanted a list of names of people accessing these sites. Texas is the same state that tried to coerce out of state abortion clinics into giving up their medical data. The sites instead decided to not play spy games with their clientele. I'm sure the money would be fine, but you'd also have to build and maintain systems for every state that would want to invade the privacy of its residence, which is a headache…
There's nothing in the law about the state gathering data.
Texas is not the first state with such law. Louisiana, Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, and Virginia have all passed laws mandating age verification for accessing adult content. I expect this will become even more widespread.
There's probably a market opportunity for the entrepreneurs of hacker news: creating an age verification service compliant with the law of those state, with a strong no-log privacy policy and an API that websites with age verification mandate can use
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> 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.
Saying this really shows your naïveté to be honest. I mean that with no offence intended. It really isn't all self explanatory. And most junior high students don't understand the depth, nuance and complexity of a lot of things until they're much older. And there is a lot to talk about in the realm of pornography. Take it from me (completely anecdotal), i started watching porn at 13 and for just under a decade since I…
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The big difference between using an ID to buy alcohol and using your ID to access a site is data retention. I can get a drink by showing my ID, the person serving me doesn’t need to keep my information to keep an auditable record. Without an accountable third party auditing solution (some sort of accredited lab situation), I wouldn’t trust a website to take my ID and not save/redistribute that information for other p…
Nothing requires that they keep your info, any more than a bar or strip club is required to.
Maybe they disclose it in a privacy policy. Maybe they say they don't, but do it anyway. It would be very hard to prove the negative in this case.
I think what they wanted was proof of age. Which isn’t wholly unreasonable. The problem is doing it in a way that protects privacy. These debates happened in the 90s too. Every porn site had an age verification or warning that you had to electronically assert you were age of majority plus. I wish we could all agree that, this is important and we shouldn’t be allowing minors to watch pornography. The porn sites don’t…
They dont want to validate age beacuse a lot of their best ad viewers aren't of age.
Citation needed.