Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks agosoon we’ll have no states to vpn to
I’ve yet to see any state legislature take that proposal seriously. Unlike trying to make porn sites take your credit card info in advance (a policy they hated so much gosh darn it!) you’re really fucking with the money when you try and regulate VPNs. Also, just… not really that practical. For the same reason Congress has been pretty toothless when it comes to regulating Torrents and digital encryption, going after VPNs at the regulatory level is something of a technological rabbit hole.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
snekerpimp meant if every state requires ID, then VPN to another state will not get around the ID check.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Setting aside the fact that there’s no appetite for these laws in liberal states, its purely a conservative fetish, you can still get porn on the internet without going to the big corporate online clearinghouses.
FFS, there was porn on Napster back in the day.
baronvonj@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
There’s no appetite for these laws in the voter public of any state, as far as I can tell given how VPN usage skyrockets in every state where these laws are put in place. Is California no longer liberal? Also consider the people running sites in any of the states that have such a law. They may resort to just blanket ID-checking everyone rather than risk prosecution.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Evangelical right-wing states have a huge contingent of politicians who compete with one another to be the toughest on “child sex trafficking” and other Epstein-tangential topics. So, in the GOP primary, you get a lot of promises about how you’re going to round up all the pedos and put them to the sword or whatever. And this inevitably manifests as “please insert your dick into this pepper grinder to access the pornography” laws, as a sort-of practical compromise.
Current Status: Failed (2024-08-15: In committee: Held under submission.)
Looks like they’re retaining their title. That said, if you peak under the “Supporters and Opponents” what you’re going to see in the Supporters section is a litany of right-wing evangelical organizations and a couple of mega-corps.
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Napster was audio only. Did you mean limewire, or kazaa, or one of the many napster clones that came after?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It was file type specific and had a soft file side limit, but that’s easy enough to work around.
They all had it as well, yes