Pornhub Sues Texas Over Age Verification Law

Like all these child protecting puritans who end up being pedophiles and sex traffickers lol

Ban curtains!

I think there's a lot of vague support for keeping porn away from children that evaporates in the context of the actual issue at hand where porn sites are being mandated to collect and store the IDs of every visitor.

The concept is not terrible, the implementation is. Passing this law with no secure way of proving identity is where it’s clearly just a Christo-fascist power move.

"Are you over 18: Yes/No"

Think nobody is arguing against that. I'd rather not give 1000 different private companies my government ID who get hacked all the time. The same people passing these laws had nude magazines growing up too.

It's kinda tragic too. I do agree with the sentiment behind age verification, it is in the kids' best interest that they not be using porn at that age. But there's really no way to effectively enforce this without violating basic rights. There is no good solution. Given that dilemma, all we can do is try to better prepare parents to deal with this in their home.

70% approval rating but what's the base? If it only surveyed 10 people and 7 say yes, it is 70% but means nothing.

Genuinely curious where you're getting these numbers. I can't seem to find any formal public opinion polls on the enacted or proposed bills

The less furry porn lore I know the better

The problem though is that all those things we fought for before and being rolled back. You could have said the same about abortion, but then we regressed because of religious extremists.

If you think these bills will do anything to stop teens from accessing porn or women from being trafficked, I have a bridge to sell you. And if you think Republicans actually care about the health and well-being of vulnerable women, I have an even more luxurious bridge to sell you.

Meanwhile Nick Fuentes wants a child bride...it's almost as if sad excuses for sacks of shit republicans want to control the sexuality of children...

https://twitter.com/brymicrab/status/1665115820140134402/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1665115820140134402¤tTweetUser=brymicrab

When we started opening up about sexuality, sexual assaults tanked. It also tanked when we started teaching sex ed to kids

Think you meant to sign up on lemmygrad.ml

LOL, you went with a strawman & personal attack because you know your actual argument is garbage.

It's not that. It's that if you tell a horny teenager that there's pictures of naked people somewhere they'll move heaven and earth to get to it.

Guess we shouldn't have any laws about anything, then.

Not only will they find it, they’ll end up going to the sketchier sites that don’t do the age verification because they’re not well known enough and not following the laws and they’ll likely get something infected on the computer/network or worse.

It's like that time we declared a war on drugs and then there were no drugs. Wait, actually that led to a massive black market and tons of violence.

Point being, you're not gonna stop it. You're just gonna make it less safe.

Yep. Who among us as idiot teenagers hasn't downloaded "$currentstarlet full nude sex tape.exe" from some shady site?

Or to reddit and lemmy

I would like to hear the rest of the story, please.

But why?

I'd build some kind of suction device to put negative air pressure on the tube while holding the nozzle in the toothpaste

Toothpaste

When I was growing up we had the ultimate porn blocker.

Dial up internet was far too slow to load more than about half an image per hour.

This blows my mind. Why not just push back on your wife for being ridiculous? I say this as a woman with two boys who has been married for 10 years.

Porn sites have had "Confirm you are over 18" since the dial up days. That's about as much of a safety net as I think is necessary or practicable.

What happens when the data in this "safety net" is breached and tons of peoples IDs get leaked? So safe.

I am a parent and I have decided not to worry about this stuff. Teens will look at porn and that is just a fact about our existence. I don't have to like it or approve of it or concern myself with it.

while that was pretty fucking bad, let's not pretend it is the singular source of all evil.

They are not brainless. They have different values than you and me.

Please separate government and politicians and media. Plenty hard work happening in our agencies solving important issues. And of course then congress wakes up and just spews bullshit.

Its full of evangelical Christians.

That number has been shrinking for decades, while at the same time the christo-faccists are getting more pushy.

The Brits seem to have an obsession with pedophilia on par with the far-right in the US that you don't see in other countries.

And they're doing nothing wrong.

Texas, the American State, is wrong.

Texas is American.

Teaching the youth to protect their Internet identity feels like a win.

Perhaps, but most of the good ones are paid, and I would try to set up some way to monitor the internet traffic if I really wanted to go that far.

Oh absolutely but that's a parent's decision. They might decide to be a crap parent and do the minimum amount of effort possible but if they're going to do that then they should be the ones to install the blocker not the government.

I remember when they tried to introduce a similar law in the UK and absolutely nothing ended up happening because it's utterly unworkable.

Not sure why you're being downvoted, you're right. The average parent has no idea how to block their kids from visiting pornhub. I don't think that's an excuse to make age verification required. Parents should educate themselves on this stuff.

Hmm, the article is a little confusing, but it sounds like they're mostly just complaining about the age verification, not really suing over that specifically. The real sticking point, and the one they actually stand a good chance of winning in court is about the warning they're being required to display that's both libelous and factually false. Texas for better or worse is within their rights to require age verification, even the very odious version of it being proposed that would require collecting state IDs, so it's unlikely that they would actually win if that was their only issue with the law. Fortunately Texas (and others) massively overstepped by trying to slap a health and safety warning a la cigarette packages onto porn sites since they let a bunch of nutty politicians write the text of the message rather than actual medical professionals (probably because they couldn't find any respectable medical professional that would endorse their wacky notions).

Exactly. Malicious compliance, while reminding people exactly why they shouldn’t be so quick to give up their anonymity on the internet.

They'd make themselves exempt without a second thought.

It's the same rhetoric that the UK government are using to get a backdoor on messaging apps with E2EE.

Yeah, anytime you see somebody making the "think of the children!" argument, look at what the possible end goal could be with that removed. Protecting kids is a favorite smokescreen because kids can't speak up for themselves in these cases.

Creating a parallel internet for children is a very intriguing idea

Fertility issues are also massively on the rise, probably just another side effect of all the pollution we let oligarchs inflict for private profit.

And Nero Bezos/Walton/Buffet/Koch/etc counted while humanity burned.

I want kids. But I need government programs like Universal Healthcare, real paternity leave rights, and maybe even extreme stuff like subsidized surrogacy to make that happen. My family in Japan has that. My SO in Canada has that. Why can't we have that here in the US?

None of my 4 kids, ages 16 - 23, want to or plan on having children.

I'm in Norway and can't find it in the Play Store. The links from their website seem dead or wrong.

There is a vpn app with the same name, but it has typos and looks suspect.

I think the mormon cultist state has that too now.

Any other sites? Sounds like pornhub is the only one since they are so well know.

I thought they just blocked it in Louisiana and just had some sort of video telling you to call your rep to fix it. I'm too lazy to find a VPN endpoint in Louisiana to confirm though. So the article I read may be out of date.

I'm all for educating children about sex, and I'm also sympathetic to the plight of data privacy.

However, I also feel like the internet right now is a pretty bad place for minors. Like, there's so much porn and other harmful content that's so easily accessible, to the point that it's easy to find yourself stumbling into it on complete accident. And with the speed that the internet evolves, it seems pretty unreasonable to me to just kinda expect parents just to be able to fully keep up with it.

I don't think I support this law in particular, but I also don't know what could possibly be done to any real effect.

and when did i say that everyone should boycott;****hub