E621, Pornhub, and others block North Carolina residents

Post by Kamq » Fri, Jan 05, 2024, 10:15 PM UTC

owenpalmer wrote: post #119

Kamq wrote: post #46

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Given that access to porn is strongly negatively correlated with violent rape across most cultures I've seen studied, I'm not sure you should be cheering this.

How do you know this is true?

Here's one of the studies I'm basing it on (this one is most in depth, but also only covers the Czech Republic): https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-010-9696-y

I can drum up a couple more if you're looking for more data (the references in that study also contain a few).

My understanding is that, in addition to the Czech Republic, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Germany, Finland, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Sweden and the USA have also been studied and have similar results.

Post by notfed » Sun, Jan 07, 2024, 7:07 PM UTC

tzs wrote: post #149

paulryanrogers wrote: post #123

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Does this require users trust several parties? Any one of which could sell out, get a court order, be tapped en mass by the NSA?

It is possible to design a system where there are three parties, you, the site R that is requesting you prove your age, and a site D that you are willing to show documentation that will prove your age, with these properties: 1. There is no direct communication between R and D related to your proof of age. You will receive a message from R, send a message to D, receive a message from D, and send a message to R. 2. R g…

Yes. It is possible to implement zero-knowledge age verification securely. There are just exponentially more ways to do it insecurely, and we can assume that by default this is what will happen.

Re: E621, Pornhub, and others block North Carolina residents

Re: E621, Pornhub, and others block North Carolina residents