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 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.

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  • 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.

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s no appetite for these laws in the voter public of any state

      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.

      Is California no longer liberal?

      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.

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      • EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

        I’d say rather than a compromise, the “protect the children!” porn bans are an excuse to go after LGBTQ content by marking any and all content related to them as explicit and demonizing them as pedophiles going after children. They don’t care who it hurts along the way.

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  • 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?

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    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Napster was audio only.

      It was file type specific and had a soft file side limit, but that’s easy enough to work around.

      Did you mean limewire, or kazaa, or one of the many napster clones that came after?

      They all had it as well, yes

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