Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

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https://www.404media.co/missouri-age-verification-law-porn-id-check-vpns/

As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.

Missouri became the 25th state to enact its own age verification law on Sunday. As it’s done in multiple other states, Pornhub and its network of sister sites—some of the largest adult content platforms in the world—pulled service in Missouri, replacing their homepages with a video of performer Cherie DeVille speaking about the privacy risks and chilling effects of age verification.

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Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Everyone who ever submits for age verification will have their information stolen. It is a matter of when, not if.

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- UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I mean, a VPN is way cheaper than whatever hoops Idaho wants you to jump through to watch some 10/10 goth hottie get her ass eaten.
  
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  - snekerpimp@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Yea, but soon we’ll have no states to vpn to, and we will have to start using the Quebec servers, then all the websites will be in French and I’ll have to learn a new language.
    
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  - root@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    States are also considering banning VPNs now as well. This will never work and is a horrible idea, but it’s being considered.
    
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  - Strider@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    As a watcher from the outside:
    
    It might not be fun to hear but vpn is neither the solution to government oppression nor a solution against tracking (recently there was a good article regarding that) so all you do is pay more.
    
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  - MyMindIsLikeAnOcean@piefed.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Welp, now I’m off to XHamster. Thank a ton >B|
    
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- NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Ironically? If we were a less prudish society this genuinely wouldn’t matter.
  
  “Oh no! Sarah likes threesome porn. Uhm… okay?”
  
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  - ccunning@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I don’t think that’s the main reason folks are concerned about having their government IDs stolen.
    
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  - EldritchFeminity@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    It’s not really about the porn in the first place (for advertisers it is - they hate sex unless it’s selling their product). The porn is merely an avenue to attack another minority group. In this case, LGBTQ people. Make everything about them sexual in some way, and then ban them from life for sexual deviancy.
    
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- khepri@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  yeah I barely can bring myself to give like Fidelity or Charles Schwab photos of my ID, just even having a digital image of my ID on my computer feels wrong lol
  
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  - bitchkat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I just went through fun trying to explain to a company that my company is a contractor for why I wouldn’t be scanning my passport and emailing it to them.
    
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- Kcap@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Oui Oui, on my face…
  
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EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The end game here is to require ID for social media in order to suppress dissent. This is an easy first step due to the longstanding controversy surrounding pornography.

It’s all about control.

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- aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  The end game here is to require ID for social media in order to suppress dissent.
  
  in 7 days, that’s what australia will have.
  
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- BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Social media has mostly divided and isolated us. Twitter and some other platforms have been useful communications channels during unrest. But there could be other forms of communication just for that, since it’s all owned by billionaires now anyway, we need to stop imagining them as reliable tools.
  
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- sunbeam60@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I hope to Darwin social media ends up requiring ID. I believe it would do wonders for democratic discourse. It was only last week, a number of large US right-wing accounts were revealed to be driven from outside the US. Is it healthy for democracies that so many people pay heed to foreign actors?
  
  If you write an op-ed for a newspaper, the newspaper need to identify you as there is an editor who is responsible for what gets written in the paper. This ensures there’s someone who can stand to account for any libellous statements.
  
  With social media we immediately reneged on this and allowed them to wash their hands; “we are just a channel” is a pretty bleak statement to make when the discourse on social media destroys the lives of minorities, encourages suicide, undermines our democracy with AI and troll farm bots.
  
  And we can do this is a privacy preserving way - of course the social media companies feeds the opposite narrative because they don’t want to implicated in the piles of shit they shovel on top of our democracy.
  
  If social media was required to ensure they could tie an account to a real person, which they needn’t reveal unless forced to by a court order, we would know that we were engaging with a real opinion, not something coughed up by a Putin-run AI bot or a Chinese troll farm.
  
  The system required isn’t that complex.
  
  A social media
  
  a social media company is opening a new account.
  
  it sends the person opening the account to any of the multitude of ways we can already verify identity online.
  
  the person is identified and issued an identity token, which gets sent to the social media company.
  
  the social media company says “great, this person is real and we can, if required by a court order, work with the identity company to reveal who this person is is”. Right now, all the social media company has is a token.
  
  the account is opened.
  
  In a system likes this, the identity company doesn’t know who the person is; that sits with the social media company.
  
  Nor does the identity service know which account is actually posting for this real person, all they know is they verified someone as part of an account opening process.
  
  Social media should be treated like the press - make them accountable for what gets posted and allow them to place this accountability on a real person by labelling posts “op-eds” if, and only if, they know who is doing the posting.
  
  We are letting large, anonymous money-men ruin our democracy behind the veil of “free discourse”. It’s not free to the many people who gets harmed by it.
  
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  - hark@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’m not going to give up my privacy over your fear of foreign bogeymen.
    
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  - M1ch431@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I am not doxxing myself so you can be paranoid. What’s next? Suspecting (e.g.) US citizens for being foreign agents and then sicking the FBI on them?
    
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- WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  The end game is id for everything including spending money.
  
  Isn’t this all part of project 2025?
  
  The goal is get tokenized everything attached to an id so that everything you do is tracked to that id.
  
  Thats why government is getting involved with crypto and they want land purchases and material purchases (gold, silver etc) to be tokenized like crypto so that all of a person’s life is digitized and trackable.
  
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  - EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    We are nothing but cattle to them.
    
    It’s also why they get upset about the declining fertility rates and when people choose not to reproduce.
    
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TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That will protect the children, for sure.

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- FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Also church. I wouldn’t want them to get diddled by a pastor.
  
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  - TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Sure, but that is more of a Christian church problem over a US one. There are plenty of cases where I’m from too, and also a few recent scandals with private Catholic school, so I’d tend to shit on the Vatican rather than the US on that particular one.
    
    I just can’t imagine thinking my children could get shot every time they go to school.
    
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- DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  US Public Schools messed with me so much, partially contributed to my depression (amongst various other factors)
  
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  - TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Damn, I’m sorry to hear. I have seen a couple of your posts around, and yeah, let’s say I know this struggle.
    
    It can get better, I hope it does for you.
    
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FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Keep this shit up and I’ll have to go back to having sex with my wife.

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- dhork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  We’ll all have to go back to having sex with your wife
  
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  - lividweasel@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
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  - forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I’ll fuck yours, if you fuck mine. That’s how that works, right?
    
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  - FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Hey, if you can get her to do it, more power to ya.
    
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- devolution@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m already fucking your wife. But if this goes through, she wont have income and will have to fuck you. I liked being her big black bull.
  
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  - FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Dude, I thought we were just out here making jokes and you come through with whatever that was.
    
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wuffah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I would like to dispute the primary supposition here that pornography is harmful. The use of pornography is nearly universal, and most of the harms that it supposedly causes are symptoms of other issues, or are invented to impose control of sexuality. The ability to reach out with the power of the law to impose religious edicts or project sexual hangups is one of the most esoteric, yet effective, forms of political control available other than violence. If you can control the way that people express their sexuality, you can probably also control their views through the monetization and restriction of sex.

Sexuality and privacy are human rights, and the creation of and access to pornography is protected by the first and fourth amendments under which so-called “age verification” is an unnecessary and excessive burden. If the idea is to prevent access to children, ask yourself why now all adults must now have their access prevented or interrupted.

Furthermore, it is not the state’s role to control childhood sexual development, and the idea that porn is harmful to minors is debatable at best and dubious at worst. Access to objectionable material is solely at the discretion of parents. The fact that they cannot effectively manage this is a symptom of another problem.

When Meta shows teenage girls makeup ads after they delete their selfies, or streaming apps are flooded with violent movies that are easily accessible to minors, this is acceptable. But when I want to watch porn it’s now my job to “protect minors” by compromising my privacy and security?

The real “danger” here is the availability of ideas that do not align with state power.

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- tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Feels like half the country wants to outlaw gay marriage and reimplement sodomy laws, so we’re not exactly coming at this issue from a great place right now.
  
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- null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I think i agree for the most part.
  
  These energies would be better spent ensuring that porn stars aren’t being exploited and have access to appropriate support.
  
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- DupaCycki@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  No offence to anyone, but this post strikes me as coming straight from a spokeperson for Aylo (formerly MindGeek). A mix of baseless claims and straight up misinformation, that happen to align with the company’s business model.
  
  You speak as if porn sites are analogous to social media and it’s perfectly normal to record your experiences and post them online. Which it absolutely isn’t, anywhere in the world. ‘Expressing your sexuality’ and porn are entirely separate and have very little to do with each other.
  
  It is widely known and confirmed that pornographic content comes with a broad spectrum of negative effects, especially for children and adolescents. The latter really should be common sense in 2025. Watching porn isn’t always bad and can be beneficial in some ways (as some sources below even highlight), but those cases represent a small minority.
  
  Below are some quotes and just a few out of countless sources providing much more reliable information on the topic of pornography’s effects. I strongly recommend reading at least some, because this comment is like ignoring decades of scientific literature and traveling in time back to the 1700s.
  
  Prolonged exposure to pornography is known to lead to habituation, resulting in blunted processing of pleasurable stimuli and greater sensitivity to negative stimuli (21). Continuous use of pornography impairs emotional processing capacity and flattens affect, reducing emotional connection to real-life sexual experiences.
  
  Source: Impact of pornography consumption on children and adolescents
  
  Research shows that frequent porn use hijacks the brain’s reward system and changes the brain’s structure, much like addictive substances.
  
  This means that prolonged pornography use can weaken natural pleasure responses and reinforce compulsive behavior.
  
  A 2014 study found that heavy porn users showed significantly reduced activity in critical areas of the brain responsible for motivation and impulse control, suggesting long-term neurological rewiring.
  
  Source: The Hidden Cost of Pornography: How It Shapes Your Brain and Behavior
  
  Age of first exposure was significantly associated with reported need for longer stimulation and more sexual stimuli to reach orgasm when using pornography, decrease in sexual satisfaction, and quality of romantic relationship, neglect of basic needs and duties due to pornography use, and self-perceived addiction in both females and males. (…) In the opinion of most of the surveyed students, pornography may have adverse effects on human health, although access restrictions should not be implemented.
  
  Source: Prevalence, Patterns and Self-Perceived Effects of Pornography Consumption in Polish University Students: A Cross-Sectional Study
  
  Additional sources:
  
  10 Negative Effects of Porn on Your Brain, Body, Relationships, and Society
  
  Affection substitution: The effect of pornography consumption on close relationships
  
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  - jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Assuming what you’re saying about the harms of consuming pornography, is it the state’s responsibility? Is it a top priority? Do we trust conservatives to implement a solution in good faith?
    
    The answer to all of those I think is no.
    
    There’s no analogous ID check for violent media, so far as I know.
    
    There could be a raging wildfire and I would hesitate if a Republican said “let me deal with it”. They are fundamentally untrustworthy.
    
    That’s on top of the deep irony of the same party that goes on about “small government” and “parents rights” is typically the same one pushing draconian anti-porn laws. It’s a joke. “A government small enough to fit in your bedroom”. Their motivations are so corrupt I am extremely skeptical of anything they propose.
    
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  - MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    
    Prolonged exposure to pornography is known to lead to habituation, resulting in blunted processing of pleasurable stimuli and greater sensitivity to negative stimuli (21). Continuous use of pornography impairs emotional processing capacity and flattens affect, reducing emotional connection to real-life sexual experiences.
    
    Source: Impact of pornography consumption on children and adolescents
    
    This is disingenuous. This issue is caused by prolonged use, as in unhealthy addictive behavior. Framing it as a result of porn access in general is flagrantly dishonest.
    
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chunes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Never thought I would live to see this day. Utterly pathetic. I remember even 20 years ago online censorship was extremely taboo.

Making it easy for normies to get online was a massive blunder.

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- wooffersyt@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  Making it easy for normies to get online was a massive blunder.
  
  Finally we’re starting to connect the dots.
  
  Once the Disney-crowd enters the picture, it’s all over.
  
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- sonofearth@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Blame folks like Jobs and Gates for this and all other tech giants who made technology extremely user friendly instead of educating the masses how to actually understand and use your computer safely. Now they are just sheeps.
  
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  - wooffersyt@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Their problem is that they served private interests by making sure most computer users are beholden to a company instead of the community.
    
    People might disagree with this, but Gates was way worse than Jobs. The entire windows ecosystem never should have existed.
    
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  - bold_atlas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Sure but one of those has been dead for over a decade and the other hasn’t been been active in the industry for even longer. There are more useful people to blame.
    
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DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m just over here in “hellscape” California enjoying the freedom to not have to do this, and I can walk down the street to the weed shop, and my girlfriend still has basic human rights over her own body.

Do any other states, like Texas, need some of our freedom? We’ve got some to spare.

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- sobchak@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I think California recently passed the Digital Age Assurance Act, which was backed by Google,Meta, and OpenAI. I think it goes into effect in 2027.
  
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  - DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Just to be clear, because I had to look into it a bit, California’s law won’t require photos/IDs.
    
    “Operating system providers need not collect additional information like photos of government IDs to verify the user’s age. Based on this age information, operating system providers must send digital signals via real-time API (age signals) to developers upon request, transmitting the user’s age range bracket – under 13, at least 13 and under 16, at least 16 and under 18, or at least 18. When a user downloads and launches a developer’s application, the developer must request an age signal from the relevant operating system provider or the application store from which the user downloaded the application.”
    
    So I’m assuming those companies backed it because they want more analytics about the age ranges of the people who use their products.
    
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- IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  That’s not the freedom these people want. They want their own freedoms that don’t include those things and the freedom to stop other people having freedom. (Old testament Christian-only the bits I like) God bless America!
  
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- Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Yes, we do.
  
  But when people in blue states get something, they stop caring about whether anyone else has it.
  
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- bbwolf1111@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Why hasn’t California, become an Island already, like they taught me in school with earthquakes? I’m just waiting for more dispensaries to carry Shrooms because currently lockout of getting any from Canada right now because well, they hate America’s with the tariffs. I have a few local selections they just have more variety.
  
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sturmblast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Yeah, I will never show my ID to a fucking porn site, get real

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- rarbg@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  fucking porn site
  
  No need to be redundant
  
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- Sunflier@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  
  Then you can’t offend god by watching it and masturbating, like we intended!
  
  -The Puritans pushing this legislation.
  
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pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The most important issue facing the world: Someone might be jerking off in the privacy of their own home.

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- treesquid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Porn is just the foot in the door to force ID for connecting to the Internet. This is techno-fascist dystopian police-state shit, and the “don’t tread on me” crowd is just bending over and saying “Please, sir, may I have another? No lube this time!”
  
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  - sleen@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Exactly, all the talk about save the children, anti terrorism protection and other authoritarian bullshit is just an attempt to deceive and manipulate the masses.
    
    Police state is what they resort to because these fascist fucks are fuelled by their narcissistic and machiavellianistic desires - the last thing they want is for someone to discover their true tyranny.
    
    It is disappointing to see fascists are slowly succeeding by utilising their manipulative tactics.
    
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- YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You mean there’s actually horny cougars in my neighborhood? Neat!
  
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cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
*half of the us requires you to “visit” iceland to watch porn

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- ripcord@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Still allowed for now. 6 months tops?
  
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  - fodor@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Right right, block the VPNs and destroy corporate infrastructure and WfH, and then everyone will just use more torrent clients or stream from international servers. It’s all good, my friend.
    
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  - Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Then I start renting private vpses out as vpns to coomers.
    
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LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
The death of freedoms by the day.

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- MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  They can applaud because they have both hands free
  
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  - MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    what’s sound of one hand fapping?
    
    errr… I mean clapping
    
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- GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  those are claps you’re hearing. might just be the half that can still watch porn…
  
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  - LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    I wouldn’t care if 1% of the population watched it. The truth is that enough of the population watches it that it is a useful tool to track and dox the population. People in power don’t care who you fuck or don’t fuck, they care how they can use who you fuck against you.
    
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unphazed@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Watch them retreat once Grindr states that due to increasing safeguards and transparency, all of their files will be released to the public.

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Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m not against proper age verifications as such, it would be like carding people in a store or a bar. But I just haven’t seen an implementation of it that isn’t prone to being a privacy nightmare and surveillance state shit.

I know there’s some systems that generate a token that verify that you are 18 and you give that to the site, so neither side directly meet so to say. The site knows only that you have a valid token for being 18 and the app or service you use to generate the token knows just that you wanted to token for something. I think Spain was figuring out a system like that.

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- ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  When you are carded at a club the staff doesn’t scan your card and keep it on file. They simply look at it and return it.
  
  As someone who worked similar jobs and would have had to look at tons of IDs every day I can assure, I dont have the time or interest in remembering all of them.
  
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  - Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    That’s really what the whole rest of my reply was about. We need a system more like carding and less like giving them copy of your passport.
    
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  - DempstersBox@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    There’s a lot of bars/restaurants that do.
    
    I have literally been refused service because the only ID I had is a passport, and those barcodes wouldn’t scan into their system.
    
    It’s Papers, please, and it’s fucking bullshit
    
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- 0nt0p0fth3w0rld@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  the easiest thing would be making the internet as a whole 18+.
  
  under 18 would be restricted to a firewalled version and age info would be part of the cellphone or internet plan. on a family plan…? under 18s get a firewalled plan. home internet? owner of the service gets a pin to disable the firewall.
  
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  - sleen@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    We are blinded by the fact that the teens are involved in this too, and they deserve equality as well. The internet is made to build bridges - get rid of boundaries - not set false narratives and infantilise those that are really impacted in this situation and have full awareness of the status quo.
    
    This is a foot in the door technique that uses our deceived emotional manipulation, where our age discrimination is the secret ingredient in this fascist circus.
    
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- thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Also the fact no companies are ever held liable for losing all your personal info, I sure as hell don’t trust this, it can backfire at all.
  
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  - Saapas@piefed.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Incompetence is one big reason why current style systems are just a no-go for me.
    
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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ll end up becoming an artist and drawing my own porn before I give my ID to a website to view it.

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njordomir@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Is there any organized fight against this? I feel like open access to porn is something people can get behind (pun intended).

People could literally put porn in everything until it’s reversed and put their red state into porn overload. They could slip porn between the pages of the newspaper,or drop a copy of bad babysitters 5 in every DVD player in best buy at the same time. They could mass mail stills from 2 girls 1 cup, goetse, and blue waffle to their Congress people. They can wear the raunchiest t-shirts they can find and pack a town hall. These assholes already created a climate where woman are (understandably) even more afraid to have sex, now they want to lock down porn too. I’m not a degenerate because I watch porn; I’m a degenerate because I in ironically enjoyed Spongknob Squarenuts. But degenerate or not, I believe freedom of inquiry is important and I want to know exactly what she If you are gonna strip people of their economic output, abuse workers, stifle culture and art, etc, you at least have to give people a blowoff valve somehow. Reading the Bible after a double shift at work isn’t gonna get anyone hard except maybe JD Vance and it probably still comes second to furniture warehouse ads.

Fuck these assholes.

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ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Hear me out!

What if parents did their fucking job as they should instead of demanding the state to do it for them, only for it to get both hijacked by both

christofascists wanting to make it illegal to not live a “christian life”,

and corporations wanting to ensure competition will need to pay a shitton of money on age verification AI?
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shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Any site that makes me do this immediately loses my traffic and I go to tor or a service that doesnt give a shit about us law.

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notreallyhere@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
half of states does not equal half of americans

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aeronmelon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
“Under his eye.”

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EtherWhack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’m waiting for huge spike of trojan-infected computers from people trying to bypass the law by torrenting their porn from unknown sources.

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OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It’s only a matter of time before a data leak happens.

That’ll be a fun day.

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BanaramaClamcrotch@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
So much for small government…

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BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This is going to expand. The next wave is going to be keeping kids off of social media. That means they will have to be age-verified, which they can’t do, because they’re kids, and don’t have ID. Instead, everyone else will have to be age-verified in order to use the Internet.

Here in Florida, I’ve already heard one state lawmaker scoffing at any objections, saying it’s the same way we keep kids from buying alcohol - by checking EVERYONE’S ID. Now they’re going to do it for the Internet. Every movement and post you make on the Internet will be directly tied to your verified identity. That should be perfectly fine, as long as you aren’t doing or saying anything wrong, right?

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neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
About eight years ago, I moved out of the US to a Third World country but each day it feels less and less like a Third World country.

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pelespirit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
This may be the real reason r’s are losing all of the elections, lol. They are entirely red states.

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axios.com/…/adult-website-age-verification-states

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tym@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
ITT: People who don’t realize the advanced nature of fingerprinting that makes VPNs nearly useless in an authoritarian environment

browserleaks.com

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DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Don’t forget to bring your copy of Chairman Trump’s little thin-blue-line book when you leave the house, patriot! Otherwise the little 'murica-guards will get you!

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entwine@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I just remembered that I’m the guy everyone in my family goes to when they need someone to scan their ID or passport for whatever stupid bullshit.

Guess it’s time to sign all my conservative family members up to gay porn websites!

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bigFab@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Children browsing the ugliest part of the dark web in 3… 2… 1…

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peaceful_world_view@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
But gun control is too hard. smh

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