Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law
Submitted 1 day ago by Pro@mander.xyz to technology@lemmy.world
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flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
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
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.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
TIL about a bunch of new porn sites cause republicans cant understand the streisand effect.
Gork@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
You know what’ll also protect the children? Releasing the Epstein files.
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.
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.
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.
Dearth@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Don’t forget the sports betting and poker apps! Good clean wholesome gambling! Sponsoring your favorite athletic entertainment!
sturger@sh.itjust.works 1 hour ago
Ah. That explains it. Conservative pols are extorting porn sites for donations.
greybeard@feddit.online 9 hours ago
And all the alcohol ads.
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.
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.
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
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.
akacastor@lemmy.world 54 minutes ago
That’s a perfect analogy, I love downloading weed from websites.
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
republicans suing republican donors you love to see it
kbobabob@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 hours ago
it also means dick
Really?! Where? 👀
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Public airport restrooms and the like.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
thats where alot of euro-porn is based in
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 hours ago
yeah that czechs out
sorry i'll see myself out
Mac@mander.xyz 17 hours ago
Time to start small-time porn groups.
Ask your friends for their nudes.echodot@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
Can I borrow some of your friends, all of mine are ugly.
Mac@mander.xyz 15 hours ago
- Appreciate the natural human body as-is. Reject perfection and curated beauty.
- To get you must be willing to give.
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
That just makes the session last longer
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?
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
CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
In a state that recently tried removing a bunch of child labor laws.
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!
jqubed@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Not funny like a Woody Allen movie, funny like a Woody Allen marriage
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
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?
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.
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?
FenrirIII@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
Pornhub blocked Texas day one
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.
JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Because they’re serving users in Florida, so they must abide by laws relating to servicing customers there.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
masterofn001@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
Prelude to a closed (north korea/russia style) internet?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Don’t forget China-style. But yes.
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?
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.
echodot@feddit.uk 17 hours ago
Yeah the key there is to invest in shares in a VPN company.
atticus88th@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Oh thank goodness they didnt name my go to for obtaining porn.
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 day ago
"... and more."
Þey should enforce age verification to look at DeSantis' stupid face.
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!)
Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 1 day ago
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Should be worried about Trump being a child rapist and the Epstein files.
Jaded99@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Why not both?
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Both what?
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.
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.
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
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!
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
desantis had his chance with the presidency, he has to be looking for US senate.
Steve@startrek.website 23 hours ago
It was planted by evil sick democrats
devolution@lemmy.world 1 day ago
To beat your meat, you must provide a drivers license.
No card. No cum.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 hours ago
Welcome to my new website “Card n’ Cum”
a_person@piefed.social 1 day ago
This is going to be the dreamworks and pirate bay situation all over again.
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I need a good porn tor hidden service. Any good ones?
Sxan@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Tor?
I mean, do you need anything more þan Tor? Doesn't þat do it, all by itself?
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Always good to have hidden services instead of having to go to the regular clearnet using Tor.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Pro@mander.xyz 1 day ago
Social media is brain rot too
Said so on “Social media”
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
Ulrich@feddit.org 1 day ago
“Cost of doing business”
goatinspace@feddit.org 1 day ago
That wil be interesting
RDAM_Whiskers@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Well now I have some new sites to visit