republicans suing republican donors you love to see it
Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Pro@mander.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
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cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
it also means dick
Really?! Where? 👀
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Public airport restrooms and the like.
Honytawk@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
On all those blocked porn websites
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
thats where alot of euro-porn is based in
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
yeah that czechs out
sorry i'll see myself out
callouscomic@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Meanwhile Nascar literally has races sponsored by BlueChew and every other fucking ad during a race is for bent dick disease, all on easily accessed channels.
Dearth@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Don’t forget the sports betting and poker apps! Good clean wholesome gambling! Sponsoring your favorite athletic entertainment!
greybeard@feddit.online 2 weeks ago
And all the alcohol ads.
sturger@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Ah. That explains it. Conservative pols are extorting porn sites for donations.
OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Pyronis disease 😭
11111one11111@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Girls gone wild!?!? What are they making 12 year olds verify their age to jack it to infomercials at 3am?
0liviuhhhhh@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Its kinda funny how this bill is being introduced under the premise of “protecting children” but Girls Gone Wild is still allowed to operate after getting caught multiple times distributing child pornography
And by funny obviously I mean horrifying
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
In a state that recently tried removing a bunch of child labor laws.
jqubed@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Not funny like a Woody Allen movie, funny like a Woody Allen marriage
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
We can’t release the Epstein list, but we’re proud to announce the newest Amazon Exclusive release from the Epstein Films catalog!
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Machinist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I think I saw a nipple!
haloduder@thelemmy.club 2 weeks ago
Meanwhile, Robin L. Rosenberg of the Southern District of Florida is the judge that blocked the release of the Epstein files.
sheridan@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Probably a dumb question, but if the website servers aren’t physically located in Florida, why must the websites follow Florida law?
CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
State prosecution argues if there’s access in Florida, the site must follow their laws. These sites need to georestrict access and should have done it the day law went into effect.
favoredponcho@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
This is like me saying I have a bucket of guns that are illegal in your state but legal in mine. You come to my state and take the guns back to yours. Who broke the law?
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pornhub blocked Texas day one
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because they’re serving users in Florida, so they must abide by laws relating to servicing customers there.
ramble81@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I’d argue it’s on the state to figure that out (for better or worse). My site is on a globally connected network, if you don’t want your citizens doing something, you figure it out. It’s not my job.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
They conduct business in Florida. Their customers aren’t porn watchers, but people who buy ad space. They could stop selling ads in Florida, but they won’t.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
the companies/sites itself can block the site from being acessed from florida though if they choose. yea if it accesible from florida, they have to follow the legislation there.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
yea if it accesible from florida, they have to follow the legislation there
Why?
utopiah@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
block the site from being acessed from florida though if they choose
How? I do not think we know of a reliable way, DNS blocking get bypassed by alternative DNS ( and ISP probably do not have per state DNSes) , IP blocking get bypassed via VPN, etc. They can say they did put in place something but it is like puttimg a fence without walls around, it is just symbolic.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
TIL about a bunch of new porn sites cause republicans cant understand the streisand effect.
Mac@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
Time to start small-time porn groups.
Ask your friends for their nudes.echodot@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Can I borrow some of your friends, all of mine are ugly.
Mac@mander.xyz 2 weeks ago
- Appreciate the natural human body as-is. Reject perfection and curated beauty.
- To get you must be willing to give.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That just makes the session last longer
SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Two problems here.
One is jurisdiction. If the website is not incorporated in Florida, has no offices in Florida, and does not use Florida servers, why should they be subject to Florida law? Everything they do is completely legal in their home jurisdiction.
This sort of enforcement is basically impossible on the internet. If anybody can access any website from anywhere, how is the website supposed to keep up with hundreds or thousands of changing jurisdictions each with their own legal requirements? And why should they have to?Second is interstate commerce clause of the Constitution. It reserves to the federal government the right to regulate interstate commerce. I would think that demanding that a out of state business change its business practices would fall afoul of that.
Now it could be argued that since the website advertises in Florida and accepts sign ups from Florida residents, that they do business in Florida. However the simple solution there would be to disable payment for Florida residents.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In 2018 SCOTUS ruled that states can require businesses with no physical presence or relationship to a state to collect sales tax for the state, effectively invalidating the Constitution’s Interstate Commerce Clause. Florida may be hoping this precedent along with a corrupt, illegitimate fascist majority in SCOTUS, will allow states to project their own local laws onto the entire country.
fuzzzerd@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
So that’s why every site started charging sales tax at the same time. Wonderful.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If the customers are still in Florida and they still earn money in Florida, they are still subject to Florida law.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Wait, wouldn’t it be legal for a country with legal weed to send it, just illegal go receive it in a jurisdiction where it’s illegal? Like if I lived in the Netherlands I couldn’t be arrested for mailing it to the US, but it’d get stopped at the border.
akacastor@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s a perfect analogy, I love downloading weed from websites.
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 2 weeks ago
Because they offer their services to people living in Florida.
Same reason as to why you should include VAT on your prices if you sell to EU citizens
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
This is disgusting. Does anyone have a list of sites so I can block them all right now?
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
“Oh, those disgusting revenge sites. But there are so many! Which ones!!!”
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It’s in the title lol. Also new ones pop-up daily especially international ones. Use Bing to find the videos then see the domain they’re hosted at and go from there. When searching big, put xxx in the search as well and turn off the safesearch bs.
Furbag@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Republicans so fuckin’ stupid they’re trying prohibition again, but this time with porn.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Well, at least they don’t already have an issue with organized pedophile rings operating within their state, right?
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Prohibition was a failure as a moral crusade but enormously successful as a money making and politicking endeavor.
slapping the hood of the police state: You can fit so many more cops in this thing!
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I personally can’t wait for people to start making porn in the backwoods and running away from the cops while fucking in the bed of their pickups.
shits gonna be wild.
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 weeks ago
Only when it comes to policing morality. When it comes to gun violence, fuck them children; they are on the own.
- Ronnie De Santis
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
or child marriages (legal pedophila), or protecting pedophiles, then they literally fuck the children
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
fuck them children
literally, i suppose, in the case of the republicans
GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Republicans think of the children a little more than they should.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Should be worried about Trump being a child rapist and the Epstein files.
Jaded99@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Why not both?
Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
One distracts from the other. Priorities.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Both what?
atticus88th@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Oh thank goodness they didnt name my go to for obtaining porn.
Sxan@piefed.zip 3 weeks ago
"... and more."
Þey should enforce age verification to look at DeSantis' stupid face.
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
His face is probably the most offensive thing in Florida, at least when a certain someone isn’t at Mar-a-Lago…
(Also: nice thorn!)
Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
If these companies wanted to spin up a lobbying and industry PR group, they would have huge reach.
Which would cause other problems down the line, but they’d crush this particular problem.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
I gotta admit, I’d love to see what their lobbying could accomplish.
Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Girls gone wild is still in activity? Didn’t they lost the lawsuit for coercing all those girls and even have some minor in their videos?
Fuck them
blobchoice@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
I did a bit of googling as you unlocked that memory, but it’s actually Girls Do Porn.
If anyone hasn’t heard of them, you can read about it here arstechnica.com/…/jane-does-v-girlsdoporn-how-22-…
It’s absolutely horrendous and I feel incredibly sorry for these women. It definitely made me feel uncomfortable watching porn for a while.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Wasn’t it a video game? I remember some listicle about video games you can’t get anymore, I think by Guru Larry, and it mentioned a Girls Gone Wild game that was like, a trivia game where a girl would flash the camera if you got the question right or something. One of the girls filmed for the game was 17 years old at the time, and signed up with a fake ID, then sued after the game was launched.
quick google search
No I’m wrong. That happened but it had nothing to do with Girls Gone Wild, it was The Guy Game by “Topheavy Studios.”
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Prelude to a closed (north korea/russia style) internet?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Don’t forget China-style. But yes.
RDAM_Whiskers@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Well now I have some new sites to visit
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
While I won’t contribute to their defense funds because they have all the money in the world, I do support them in spirit. You can’t beat the porn industry. You can only temporarily inconvenience it.
Suck it, Florida.
JonEFive@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
My favorite is when the sites just block access to IPs in those states instead of trying to comply with the laws with a message that says “Your state won’t let us do business and we refuse to violate your privacy.” VPNs gonna see a huge spike in purchases, and lots of angry gooners gonna start writing their representatives as their favorites sites drop off one by one.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
In my home town of Houston, the city decided to crack down on the number of topless bars (which developers considered an eyesore). But they still recognized the bigger establishments as lucrative sites for labor exploitation popular with the O&G business community.
So they found a middle ground. There is now a ceiling on licensed venues, with 16 registrations permitted inside city limits. Each club holding a registration must contribute to a $1M pot that’s provided to the Houston PD’s “anti-sex trafficking” division. This affords police a fund by which they can do “undercover investigation” of establishments.
Everyone wins.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This sounds very much like the mafia wetting their beak.
ultranaut@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I wouldn’t be surprised if the bouncers are all off duty cops too, or hired from security companies owned by cops. That seems to be a very common arrangement when a business wants to ensure the local department remains friendly.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Solution:
Make a site only available in [insert a privacy-respecting country]
Then anyone else gets redirected to a “This website is not available in your country, please use a VPN and set it to [country]”
???
Profit?
atrielienz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I feel like porn websites have money and lots of reasons to want to burn Florida.
CobblerScholar@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
He’ll be running for higher office very soon. He’s been in at least one abhorrent headline a week for months. Hope they find the CSAM on his laptop soon so I can stop hearing about this incompetent asshole
DancingBear@midwest.social 2 weeks ago
Isn’t this like mainstream advertising for these sites in places they can’t advertise?
devolution@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
To beat your meat, you must provide a drivers license.
No card. No cum.
biotin7@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Florida can drown in hell
hobovision@mander.xyz 3 weeks ago
Unrelated to the article itself, but god fucking damn is that website absolutely absurd. It looks like a shitty campaign website. The sad sad man changed the seal of the office and put an eagle (because books are lame I guess) and “free state of florida” at the bottom like that’s a real thing. Can’t believe this works on people.
a_person@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
This is going to be the dreamworks and pirate bay situation all over again.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
I need a good porn tor hidden service. Any good ones?
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
xvideo is affiliate of ph, or at elast its parent company. the other 2 are probably the same too.
shalafi@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Well, they are in fact breaking the law. Doesn’t matter what we think about that law, they’re in clear violation. Cannot imagine why they didn’t geofence like PornHub did. Hell, I did blocked entire countries at my last job with a simple pfSense router. This ain’t rocket science. Guess their greed got 'em?
Also, can anyone explain why a foreign operator would give two fucks? Remember The Pirate Bay’s great responses?
Gork@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
You know what’ll also protect the children? Releasing the Epstein files.
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I mean, for once, this isn’t just a chant. Epstein was the supplier but we have yet to nail his customers to the wall.