Yeah when I think of child safety the first thing I think about is the state with razorwire in their rivers to drown kids
Texas should rename itself from "The Lone Star State" to "The Blue Ball State"
North Carolina has apparently passed similar laws but my Internet thinks I'm in Tennessee.Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia and now Texas are all states that have age verification laws and have been blocked by PH. Of course, VPN's exist so this is largely a symbolic gesture.
Texas should rename itself from "The Lone Star State" to "The Blue Ball State"
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/15/tech/vpn-searches-spike-texas-pornhub/index.htmlI'm fairly certain the existence of VPN's factored heavily into Pornhub's willingness to block states.
VPNs work, so no big deal Either way, it doesnt really do anything to help anyone. So, I guess well see what happensThe vast majority of the population has no idea what a VPN is, let alone how to set one up.
The vast majority of the population has no idea what a VPN is, let alone how to set one up.
Then again, the Google for that has spiked in Texas, so more are learning.
I would figure most people who are in the range for watching porn would probably know
younger audiences (not-so-ironically, the exact audiences this law is allegedly trying to protect) will likely be able to figure it out.
I mentioned to someone that the ones they think theyre protecting are the ones most likely to have VPNs to see what they want, anyway
Or if not VPNs, to be active in enough online communities to find sites that don't have age verification and/or have not blocked Texas. It'll cut down a bit on kids accessing porn, but if they want to find it, they're going to, and the government won't be able to do anything to circumvent that until they make a genuine effort to understand what options are available to verify users' ages securely and without introducing major privacy concerns.I mean, it was hard enough to keep kids from porn even before the internet. Now it is just a hopeless endeavour, especially with sites hosted in countries that aren't really going to care about Texas trying to fine them.
Of course, the actual best course of action would be to accept that it's inevitable that kids that want to see porn are going to access it, and from there develop sex ed curricula that include candid discussions about what porn is, isn't, and the harms it can do if misused, but somehow I don't think Texan voters would get behind that.
We definitely don't have a global epidemic of porn addiction or anything.I'll argue the current push to create more gamblers will cause more problems than porn.
Wish they'd block that degenerate shit everywhere, but hey, I'm sure it will be fine eventually when civilization collapses from the various pressures pushing it that way.
I'll argue the current push to create more gamblers will cause more problems than porn.
We definitely don't have a global epidemic of porn addiction or anything.
Says the person who posted a pic of their face (apparently) covered in semen for PotD to see at least. Nothing sexual about that obviously.
If you consider that pornographic that's your call
I mean you did get banned for that but silly me it was just a normal selfie.
You think porn is the only thing that can get people banned? You're kind of a weird guy.
So let me get it straight.Strictly speaking, TX passed a law that required adult content sites to validate ID's for TX residents and PornHub opted to just block TX rather than comply. I don't really see that as a free speech violation as it is a massive privacy violation. I also see it as being a largely meaningless law for all the other reasons stated in this thread.
Free speech endangers children so the government decides to step in to protect them by limiting free speech.
Also:
Gun violence endangers children but the government can't step in to protect them because that would limit the right to bear arms.
Gotcha.
We definitely don't have a global epidemic of porn addiction or anything.
Wish they'd block that degenerate shit everywhere, but hey, I'm sure it will be fine eventually when civilization collapses from the various pressures pushing it that way.
If you consider that pornographic that's your call
I'll argue the current push to create more gamblers will cause more problems than porn.
Strictly speaking, TX passed a law that required adult content sites to validate ID's for TX residents and PornHub opted to just block TX rather than comply. I don't really see that as a free speech violation as it is a massive privacy violation. I also see it as being a largely meaningless law for all the other reasons stated in this thread.
Probably, but I wouldn't really consider either to be harbingers of society's collapse. They're problems, certainly, but in the grand scheme of climate change, an explosive cost of living crisis, and the imminent collapse of the labour market due to runaway automation, they don't really amount to much.The Roman Empire would like a word with you.