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US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law

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Re: US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law

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Post by kirubakaran »

rendleflag wrote: post #8
josefresco wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Someone in this chain of corruption probably owns a VPN company or another entity benefitting (short term) from this ban.

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

You have to adjust your priors at some point though, right?

    Fool me once, shame on my prior.
    Fool me twice, shame on my posterior.

Re: US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law

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Post by TriangleEdge »

aa_is_op wrote: post #2

This will just drive people to non-compliant foreign sites. They just killed their own adult industry, who is gonna take their business and taxes elsewhere

I think your assumption that Texas cares about its porn industries is incorrect. Pornhub is a Canadian company. Afaik it's the #1 porn site, I could be wrong. I assume if they don't comply, their DNS host will be blocked in Texas. Registries of porn sites are readily available. (I use them in my hosts file blocking). So, my guess is that the likely step will be block all of them until they prove they have ID enforcement.

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Post by [deleted] »

josefresco wrote: post #5
aa_is_op wrote: post #2

This will just drive people to non-compliant foreign sites. They just killed their own adult industry, who is gonna take their business and taxes elsewhere

Someone in this chain of corruption probably owns a VPN company or another entity benefitting (short term) from this ban.

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Re: US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law

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Post by lupusreal »

giarc wrote: post #16
ceejayoz wrote: post #3

So how broad is this? Can a state now require you to verify your age and identity to read a newspaper they don't like?

Not unless that newspaper is "more than one-third sexual material".

Huh, I think old playboy magazines might actually be under that one third.

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Post by dragonwriter »

aa_is_op wrote: post #2

This will just drive people to non-compliant foreign sites. They just killed their own adult industry, who is gonna take their business and taxes elsewhere

I don't think the big-business adult industries is particularly present in Texas, and the independent creators who are in Texas leaving if they are able or being forced out of work if not is probably an active goal of Texas politicians.
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