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Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Pro@mander.xyz⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.myfloridalegal.com/newsrelease/attorney-general-james-uthmeier-fights-protect-children-online-pornography-brings

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  • RDAM_Whiskers@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Well now I have some new sites to visit

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  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Image

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    • ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one ⁨26⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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
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  • haloduder@thelemmy.club ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Meanwhile, Robin L. Rosenberg of the Southern District of Florida is the judge that blocked the release of the Epstein files.

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  • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    TIL about a bunch of new porn sites cause republicans cant understand the streisand effect.

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  • Gork@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    You know what’ll also protect the children? Releasing the Epstein files.

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    • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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  • frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • callouscomic@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Dearth@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t forget the sports betting and poker apps! Good clean wholesome gambling! Sponsoring your favorite athletic entertainment!

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      • sturger@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

        Ah. That explains it. Conservative pols are extorting porn sites for donations.

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      • greybeard@feddit.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And all the alcohol ads.

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  • SirEDCaLot@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • squaresinger@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If the customers are still in Florida and they still earn money in Florida, they are still subject to Florida law.

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      • akacastor@lemmy.world ⁨54⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

        That’s a perfect analogy, I love downloading weed from websites.

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  • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    republicans suing republican donors you love to see it

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    • kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      it also means dick

      Really?! Where? 👀

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Public airport restrooms and the like.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      thats where alot of euro-porn is based in

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      • cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        yeah that czechs out

        sorry i'll see myself out

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  • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Time to start small-time porn groups.
    Ask your friends for their nudes.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Can I borrow some of your friends, all of mine are ugly.

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      • Mac@mander.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
        1. Appreciate the natural human body as-is. Reject perfection and curated beauty.
        2. To get you must be willing to give.
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      • surewhynotlem@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        That just makes the session last longer

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  • 11111one11111@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Girls gone wild!?!? What are they making 12 year olds verify their age to jack it to infomercials at 3am?

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    • 0liviuhhhhh@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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      • CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        In a state that recently tried removing a bunch of child labor laws.

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      • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        We can’t release the Epstein list, but we’re proud to announce the newest Amazon Exclusive release from the Epstein Films catalog!

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      • jqubed@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Not funny like a Woody Allen movie, funny like a Woody Allen marriage

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They have no idea what kids are capable of overcoming to access porn.

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  • sheridan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Probably a dumb question, but if the website servers aren’t physically located in Florida, why must the websites follow Florida law?

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    • CaptDust@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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.

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      • favoredponcho@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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?

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      • FenrirIII@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Pornhub blocked Texas day one

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Because they’re serving users in Florida, so they must abide by laws relating to servicing customers there.

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      • ramble81@lemmy.zip ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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      • utopiah@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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

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    • blobchoice@feddit.uk ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • masterofn001@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Prelude to a closed (north korea/russia style) internet?

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    • ivanafterall@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t forget China-style. But yes.

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  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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    • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Band-aid for a gun shot wound.

      We need to make the very politicians, activists, etc., who made these kinds of laws possible to fear for their lives.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah the key there is to invest in shares in a VPN company.

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  • atticus88th@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Oh thank goodness they didnt name my go to for obtaining porn.

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    • Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      "... and more."

      Þey should enforce age verification to look at DeSantis' stupid face.

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      • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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!)

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      • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Upvote and a salute for Þe use of Þe Þorn character.

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  • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Should be worried about Trump being a child rapist and the Epstein files.

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    • Jaded99@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Why not both?

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      • MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Both what?

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  • hobovision@mander.xyz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    xvideo is affiliate of ph, or at elast its parent company. the other 2 are probably the same too.

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  • CobblerScholar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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

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    • BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      LoL STUPID LIBTARD! Republicans LOVE CSAM! Just look at how they Treat Jeffrey Epstein and his BEST FRIEND Donald J Trump!

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      desantis had his chance with the presidency, he has to be looking for US senate.

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    • Steve@startrek.website ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It was planted by evil sick democrats

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  • devolution@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    To beat your meat, you must provide a drivers license.

    No card. No cum.

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    • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Welcome to my new website “Card n’ Cum”

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  • a_person@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is going to be the dreamworks and pirate bay situation all over again.

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  • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I need a good porn tor hidden service. Any good ones?

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    • Sxan@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Tor?

      I mean, do you need anything more þan Tor? Doesn't þat do it, all by itself?

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      • shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Always good to have hidden services instead of having to go to the regular clearnet using Tor.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Why should any website operator be held responsible for complying with every stupid law in every podunk shithole jurisdiction everywhere in the world? By this logic, every site should comply with whatever unhinged BS North Korea and Saudi Arabia insist upon, too – is that what you want?

      If Florida doesn’t like these websites that are not hosted in Florida, that’s Florida’s problem, not the website operators’, and Florida can do its own damn geofencing itself.

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I agree with every single thing you stated. But the article is about these sites breaking Florida law, and they are. Never said anything about this was sane, but again, if I operated a porn site, I’d fence Florida off as a CYA measure.

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    • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      People are downvoting you because you’re telling them that the law isn’t fair, sucks my friend.

      I do wonder if Xvideos or some of these other companies that are primarily international have any infrastructure in the US/Florida that could be affected by a ruling of some sort. I feel like there might be something there depending on how they’re taking payment for Xvideos Red.

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      • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        People are downvoting them because no one is beholden to the laws of a state/province/jurisdiction/etc that they have no relation with. Foreign authorities do not get to force their will onto foreign entities.

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  • Jaded99@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Good!! Porn is rotting ppls brains anyway. The mental illness of this generation is astonishing. Social media is brain rot too and they wonder why anxiety and depression/loneliness is on the rise, while watching women be spat on, smacked and abused.

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    • Pro@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Social media is brain rot too

      Said so on “Social media”

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      • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This isn’t social media as most understand it. My wife sometimes gets bent as to what she sees me writing, doesn’t understand that you and I neither know one another nor care to.

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      • Jaded99@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I have a massive block list on connect to filter out the brain rot. I still want to read the tech news and keep up with the times. I am not coco meloning myself with tik tok and the likes and I am most certainly not watching hide the sausage 🌭 that’s pure brain damage.

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    • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Uhhh what kind of freaky shit are you watching for that to be the image you have of porn?

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      • Jaded99@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Let me guess you’re just watching all the “tame” step mom videos? I heard those ones are healthier than the step dad videos. Coom on… it’s good for you and your pp. Definitely won’t get addicted and want harder stuff down the line. Enjoy

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    • y0kai@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Lol less than a week old account with the dumbest take of the day. Obvious troll. Try harder.

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  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “Cost of doing business”

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  • goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    That wil be interesting

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