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Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by simoncion »

ideasp wrote: post #71
EnergyAmy wrote: post #70

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Interesting that this is being suggested in a thread where someone is throwing around accusations of hyperbole. At least you're not beating around the dystopic bush. I hope that you never find yourself on the receiving end of this process. You might think that you have nothing to hide, as many have throughout history before finding out that they were quite wrong.

I'm not a pornographer, of any type, so I will never find myself having to be concerned about children accessing my websites and being on the receiving end of any law that intends to regulate this.

> ...so I will never find myself having to be concerned about children accessing my websites and being on the receiving end of any law that intends to regulate this.

Oh boy. Good luck with the law if you accept and serve UGC and happen to store (let alone serve) any from a child who's under the age of 13.

It's not just anti-sin laws that are insane.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by luuurker »

doggero wrote: post #25
wkat4242 wrote: post #16

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The thing is, age verification that consists of more than a simple button of "yes I'm over 18" is privacy intrusive. Who wants to register as a porn viewer? Especially in the US where this is stigmatised.

It's stigmatized for good reason. The amount of abuse within the pornography industry is immense. Anyone with any decent of ethics would refrain from consuming this material.

Does it make sense use the abuse within the porn industry to defend this when a lot of porn these days comes from individual creators? OnlyFans seems to be huge and I just checked PornHub's front page, of the 3 first rows, only 3 videos out of 12 seem to be from the "industry".

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by djaouen »

wkat4242 wrote: post #21
nielsbot wrote: post #19

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I clicked absentmindedly.. luckily it seems mostly harmless.

Would you really have been permanently damaged if it were a porn site? :) I think it's very funny by the way :) Love the idea

Maybe YOU think corn is harmless, but most of the country doesn’t. It’s not funny/ a joking matter!

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by xethos »

gambiting wrote: post #36
doggero wrote: post #25

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It's stigmatized for good reason. The amount of abuse within the pornography industry is immense. Anyone with any decent of ethics would refrain from consuming this material.

>>Anyone with any decent of ethics would refrain from consuming this material. What, like....all porn? There are plenty of amateur couples who upload incredibly tender, loving and respectful videos of their love life to PH. Why are you bundling everything together with the exploitative stuff?

This is the "I buy from a local farmer raising their own cows" argument that people use to say eating beef is fine.

The local cow that you knew (and will eat half of), and the couples having a good time on video are not the majority by a long shot. It's a fig leaf that, at times, is grounded in reality, but often isn't what people are consuming.

They're bundled together because that's the majority of consumption. I'm not going to shame people for it; hell, I had a hamburger yesterday. That's simply what the majority pay for - the product that's created in an environment lots of people aren't comfortable talking about, and generally don't want to see.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by mcphage »

ideasp wrote: post #69
gambiting wrote: post #36

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>>Anyone with any decent of ethics would refrain from consuming this material. What, like....all porn? There are plenty of amateur couples who upload incredibly tender, loving and respectful videos of their love life to PH. Why are you bundling everything together with the exploitative stuff?

Just looking at the front page of Pornhub right now: "Stepmother and son share a bed in a hotel" "Fake taxi Bengali nurse takes a big cock in her tight Asian pussy" "Petite blonde whore opening her ass for me to demolish" You want children watching this?

> You want children watching this?

You think this law will change who watches this?

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by mcphage »

anon291 wrote: post #41
explodes wrote: post #26

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There are a million other ways to access it. I don't know how introducing privacy invading practices could end up as a net good.

Like the privacy invading practice of requiring drug stores to check IDs before selling Playboys? I'm sorry, Playboy is way tamer than Pornhub. There's no reason PH should have less strict access requirements. There's no 'right' to access porn anonymously. For goodness' sake, most states monitor your alcohol consumption by tying purchases to your ID!

> Like the privacy invading practice of requiring drug stores to check IDs before selling Playboys?

I’m curious what the result would have been if you needed to provide your ID to Playboy themselves and not merely the drug store.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by mcphage »

doggero wrote: post #20

This is good news. Here's hoping for a federal law that makes age verification for pornographic content a requirement across all states. There's no reason why these sites shouldn't shoulder their share of the responsibility to prevent children from accessing this content. It's really quite telling that Pornhub is removing itself from all markets where it's mandated to do this. Like all dealers of addictive and abusiv…

> This is good news. Here's hoping for a federal law that makes age verification for pornographic content a requirement across all states.

> It's really quite telling that Pornhub is removing itself from all markets where it's mandated to do this.

I imagine that if it became a federal mandate, Pornhub would add some sort of gate that they felt met the legal requirements.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by HDThoreaun »

krembo wrote: post #62

How do they make money? What's their revenue stream? Who's paying $ when most content is for free, and when people really want to pay they go to OF. I know the phrase that when the product is free, then I'm the product, but even then, how do they make money from customers' mostly-incognito data?

Pornhub is owned by the biggest porn studio. They push their studios videos, company makes money off subs to their content plus rev share for the independents.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by wkat4242 »

recursive wrote: post #30
wkat4242 wrote: post #21

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Would you really have been permanently damaged if it were a porn site? :) I think it's very funny by the way :) Love the idea

Loss of a job can be permanently damaging in some cases.

That doesn't happen if you click on the wrong link once though. I've got the "Adult content is forbidden" Zscaler page many times at work and I didn't even get a call from HR :) Ususally miscategorised but still.

And why would they, because if you get this warning you didn't get to see porn, so it doesn't work. There is no point to keep on trying anyway.

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