Comment on Redditor accidentally reinvents discarded ’90s tool to escape today’s age gates
shneancy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
But overall, enforcement causes nearly half of users to stop searching for popular adult sites complying with laws and instead search for a noncompliant rival (48 percent) or virtual private network (VPN) services (34 percent), which are used to mask a location and circumvent age checks on preferred sites, the study found.
what a fucking surprise. now the teens only watch porn that is already skirting around laws just by virtue of existing. truly nobody could’ve ever imagined this would happen
jesus christ i’m so tired of stupid politicians
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 week ago
They are not that stupid, they do what they want.
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
i genuinely cannot see how this improves anything. if they want to keep them kids in the dark about sexual stuff - how is pushing them to be exposed to most likely hardcore bdsm on the front page assuring that?
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Making more people criminals. Ayn Rand wasn’t a pleasant person and her writing is worse than even mine, but she was entirely correct about this motivation.
Also getting leverage on services that should be checked against regulations. Doesn’t matter if they are going to host any porn. The check itself is pressure.
Getting funding.
Creating posts with small power, subordinate to posts with bigger power. It’s like bullshit jobs in an authoritarian country, people who are dependent on the regime for their wage and are not very qualified, except it’s higher rank.
Making the legislative apparatus busy with that instead of something real.
Stuffing rules harmless taken alone into the law, as a preparation for another time.
shneancy@lemmy.world 1 week ago
even though it made me a little depressed - thank you for the explanation, this really sucks no matter how you look at it doesn’t it, ehhh