Yeah bruh, I try to avoid porn. Personal decision. PERSONAL. Stay the fuck out of everyone’s goddamn lives.
Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads
Submitted 10 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to technology@lemmy.world
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cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sorgan71@lemmy.world 10 months ago
its not facist to try to stop kids from accessing porn
Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Parents jobs. And TONS of ways to do it.
Fedegenerate@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
As you’re here on Lemmy, a site that has pornographic content, we’re going to need you to post a picture of your government ID as a reply to this comment. You know, to prevent kids accessing porn.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
If you actually believe this is about protecting children then I have a bridge to sell you
zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Putting age gates on the Internet is indeed pretty authoritarian though, and starting with porn is only the beginning
negativeyoda@lemmy.world 10 months ago
How shitty a parent are you to either not know how to work parental controls or better… to talk to your kids about healthy attitudes towards sex?*
*besides abstinence
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
But I bet you think it is fascist to pass laws which stop kids from getting shot at school?
Thcdenton@lemmy.world 10 months ago
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 10 months ago
wedeworps@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
They are going to access it anyway
Lightor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yes and let’s put ID verification on anything that might have curses too. Can’t risk a parent not sheltering their child hard enough.
LemmysMum@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The world isn’t made for children, where are their fucking parents?
pyre@lemmy.world 10 months ago
yes it is; that’s exactly what it is. kids is the go-to reason fascists give to censor, ban, burn books, discriminate against people and control people’s bodies and lives. it’s not a coincidence that “children” is one of the 14 words.
Aarrodri@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Idiot
elscallr@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It is, though
Traister101@lemmy.today 10 months ago
It’s not stopping anybody. If you are a horny enough 13 year old you’ll find it on any platform. Speaking from experience YouTube, Instagram, Reddit (obviously lemmy as well) and in short the rest of them can be pretty easily used to access porn. It’s not allowed on for example YouTube but it’s still there or it manages to be technically allowed through being “educational content”. Obviously we aren’t talking about like Brazzers or whatever being directly uploaded but there’s definitely naked people doing proactive things.
burliman@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Once again, a vice is blamed for its own sake, “for the children”, instead of the thing people are running from, or the hole they are filling. It’s the Right’s version of virtue signaling.
Porn addiction is just an addiction, and removing porn will not remove addiction in people. Thirst can’t be cured by drying up the well. Saying nothing about the constitutionality of this, restricting potentially addictive content through nanny state ID systems is worthless… check history. South Korea plan was dropped, UK plans for the same thing were dropped. It’s not only ineffective, as kids will always find a way through the cracks, but it also extremely difficult to implement and erodes the bedrock of privacy. We’re not solving addiction, we’re just building a surveillance state under the guise of protection. Solutions are in addressing the root causes of addiction and fostering resilience, not in this game of whack-a-mole that sacrifices our privacy.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I get wanting to keep porn away from children, but on the flipside I don’t trust governments with a history of criminalizing homosexuality with my porn history. Looking up, it seems that these states even kept laws against sodomy in their books.
Bakachu@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I had to look this up, and this is so nuts, but there are currently 12 states that stilll have sodomy laws as of late 2023: Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, and Texas.
I think a lot of people might not realize that sodomy is often legally defined as anything that is not PIV intercourse. So most foreplay and obviously any sex practiced by homosexual couples. I absolutely don’t get why there isn’t a stronger push to get rid of this and other dumb laws against offenses that are widely committed and/or are hard to enforce.
Well I guess this one kind of makes sense in this current state of political turmoil.
ohlaph@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We were all kids once, we found a way. I did, other kids will. Sure we can make it harder to access, but blocking it isn’t the solution that republicans think it is.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Exactly, additionally I don’t trust governments that consistently fail to understand artistic merit in sexually graphic art and sought to ban it to maintain free expression.
Yearly1845@reddthat.com 10 months ago
Or you could accept that humans are sexually active creatures and by the time kids are curious about porn, it’s time to talk to them about why porn can be damaging and why it’s important to form meaningful connections with other people instead of your screen, and teach them about STDs, pregnancy, rape, the reproductive system etc. You know, all things that are covered in sex Ed that republicans also want to ban.
But no, I’m sure banning porn and all discussion about sex will only have a positive impact on kids 🙄
Mango@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I see you Mr dildo haver.
urquell@lemm.ee 10 months ago
or the hole they are filling. Heh
WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 10 months ago
You gotta pay the troll toll, if you wanna get into that boy's hole!
GraniteM@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If you believe that laws forbidding gambling, sale of liquor, sale of contraceptives, requiring definite closing hours, enforcing the Sabbath, or any such, are necessary to the welfare of your community, that is your right and I do not ask you to surrender your beliefs or give up your efforts to put over such laws. But remember that such laws are, at most, a preliminary step in doing away with the evils they indict. Moral evils can never be solved by anything as easy as passing laws alone. If you aid in passing such laws without bothering to follow through by digging in to the involved questions of sociology, economics, and psychology which underlie the causes of the evils you are gunning for, you will not only fail to correct the evils you sought to prohibit but will create a dozen new evils as well.
–Robert A. Heinlein, Take Back Your Government
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
This isn’t even about porn addiction, it’s definitely a “think of the children!” scenario by the right-wing pearl clutchers. Meanwhile, there’s tons of horrible shit available on the Internet freely available that they don’t seem to care about, along with nudity in movies. Also I love how that article claims that “residents will have to go to the deep dark corners of the internet to get their porn once pornhub is blocked” as if hundreds of other porn sites not owned by that company don’t exist 🤣 The Internet and tech improvements are literally driven by porn consumption. IDK what the number is now, but like 5-10 years ago it was “40% of all internet traffic is porn related”.
foo@programming.dev 10 months ago
It’s literally virtue signalling.
dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world 10 months ago
We’re not solving addiction, we’re just building a surveillance state under the guise of protection.
That’s a feature of all of these types of schemes, not a bug.
itsprobablyfine@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Hey I agree with you but might want to use a different metaphor in the future. Drying the well won’t stop thirst, but neither will anything else, except well, death I guess.
cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Christian taliban
betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Classic big government nanny state move. That political party which claims to be against this sort of overreach must be upset over it, right?
deweydecibel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Do they even claim that anymore? I can’t remember the last time I’ve heard a conservative talk about small government in any way that even comes close to amounting to an actual philosophy.
redcalcium@lemmy.institute 10 months ago
VPN companies don’t need much advertising these days. The customers will come by themselves!
IDriveWhileTired@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Was about to say, did politicians now invest in VPN providers?
Plus, the hypocrisy of it all, since most scandals involving infidelity, abuse and other stuff comes from their side of the aisle (not that the other side is composed of saints, but still).
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yeah it’s not that Dems are more moral, it’s that Dems punish immorality in leaders.
extant@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pretty soon VPN’s will be illegal too.
IphtashuFitz@lemmy.world 10 months ago
No they won’t. Virtually every tech company in the world uses them. If any legislation was proposed then companies from the likes of Google and Microsoft down to hundreds of companies with fewer than 100 employees would all fight it.
cation@lemmy.world 10 months ago
You can literally host your own vpn, nothing illegal about that. And, as someone else mentioned, work would be impossible for many companies, as almost any company that works with sensitive data uses vpn to some extent.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Encryption is a constitutionally protected right. The only debate is whether it falls under the first or second amendment.
Ibex0@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Imagine linking your porn watching to your government ID? It WILL leak, and you’ll be embarrassed. 😳
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
More than that, even in non extremist communities, your social life will be destroyed.
Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
It’s real generous of these states to boost business for VPN companies like this
gedaliyah@lemmy.world 10 months ago
vanontom@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I think most people, by far, don’t know how to use (or want to pay for) a VPN. What they’ll do is use one of the other porn sites. There are probably dozens! And it will push sites to operate outside of US and ignore our dumb state laws.
NicoCharrua@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
At this point vpns are popular enough and have enough ads about them that most people will be able to look up ‘free vpn’ on the app store and download the first one that comes up. They’re not difficult to use at all
tastysnacks@programming.dev 10 months ago
it’s a Porn Tax
JJROKCZ@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pretty soon they like usage of a vpn illegal
trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
It’s ridiculous that elected officials can be so unbelievably fucking stupid
WraithGear@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In Virginia, they are required to gather personal information and that’s weird. So its just not available here. But when you think of it, porn hub went to great lengths to minimize the problems with the industry. And these sort of regulations are doing the same thing that prohibition did. Push normal citizens into interacting with seedy elements, dangerous situations, and exploitation.
ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’m in VA and our governor sucks.
frezik@midwest.social 10 months ago
Yup. Most regulations of sex workers end up only hurting sex workers. They accomplish little else. That’s arguably the end goal rather than a side effect.
itsnotits@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So it’s* just not available here.
Facebones@reddthat.com 10 months ago
“CP is bad!”
sends everyone to the dark web for their porn
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Pornhub and its related companies aren’t the only “normal” porn sites out there, there are thousands of sites not owned by the parent company. These are just the big names everyone knows. Blocking access to porn on a statewide basis is only really possible at the ISP level, and of course those are private companies not owned by the state (in most cases). Even then, a cheap VPN would be able to get around that.
It’s akin to standing next to someone and telling them not to breathe your air.
KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“the land of the free”
Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
FTFY: The land of the formerly free.
Daft_ish@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Well I guess it’s back to the garbage bag of porn mags in the woods for North Carolina and Montana kids.
Seriously tho, who is this law stopping? When I was a kid I would traverse the entire city if it meant there was a chance I’d see a boob.
BrownianMotion@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nah, curating is pretty easy! https://github.com/StashApp
BaardFigur@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Aren’t there numerous other sites though? Like xvideos, spankbang, redtube, etc?
BoastfulDaedra@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
You bring up an interesting point. My theory is that this is no more than a hopeless election-year shenanigan.
pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Why is everyone acting like PornHub and the companies owned by the parent company are the only porn sites in existence? Literally just search for “porn sites” and you’re done, or if you’re looking for a specific model whose videos you found there just search for their name.
hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
North Carolina and Montana just flipped some folks from red to blue “for reasons…”
aceshigh@lemmy.world 10 months ago
best of all, this strategy isn’t going to decrease viewership, probably increase it. it’s also going to increase the usage of vpn’s.
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Lol I was just in Utah and on a home wifi there, pornhub was blocked (100% blocked, like you cannot access the site).
But if I switched to data, it was not blocked
Lol – how’s that working out for ya, Utah??
The_Worst@feddit.nl 10 months ago
In only a couple of years girls aren’t allowed to go to school anymore.
Carmakazi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
“Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.[20]” — “A Promise to America”, Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 5, Project 2025
Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I hope those hosts provide a nice greeting page explaining which politicians are guilty of this, and how sneaky their underhand rider was abusing the legal system.
TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
In other news: Reports of malware on home users’ PCs spike in North Carolina and Montana.
DBT@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Meanwhile, the other sites are promoting trans anal piss porn, so that’s what I’m into now I guess, since that’s the only option.
paddirn@lemmy.world 10 months ago
From my cold, dead, well-lubricated hands! Suddenly all this porn hoarding I’ve been doing all these years doesn’t seem so crazy after all. Well, maybe a little.
Mango@lemmy.world 10 months ago
So what are they gonna do? Figure out how to bill companies all over the world for not knowing their local bullshit and accommodating it? Fucking clowns.
zxk@lemmy.world 10 months ago
North Carolina and Montana, why you so dumb?
BlackSkinnedJew@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
Nothing what my VPN can’t handle…
TokyoMonsterTrucker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
BUT MAH FREEDOMS!!!
At least the yokels stuck it to the libs before they had all their extra-depraved porn taken away.
HootinNHollerin@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
Part of small gubermnt
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social 10 months ago
I suspect that long term, if more states keep end up passing laws about this, it might drive people away from dedicated sites for this content and towards pages made for it on social media type platforms instead. These laws tend to stipulate that they apply only when a certain percentage of a website is adult content (for obvious reasons I imagine, if just one instance was enough to apply then they’d apply to basically any platform with user generated content, since people are inevitably going to try to post it), which leaves the very obvious work around of just mixing it into a site that also contains mostly other types of content.
BigMacHole@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Freedom!
xc2215x@lemmy.world 10 months ago
People will just go to XVideos.
Djtecha@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I give this 6 months before the list of visitors is released…
Smacks@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Republicans doing a real good job giving a peak into what voting Red will do for them this year
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
The children are saved and wont see porn ever /s
Socsa@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Voting red, not voting, or voting third party.
Goferking0@ttrpg.network 10 months ago
Sad part is people will still vote for them in droves