Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas to object to a state law that requires the company to verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the site.
Texas residents who visit the site are met with a message from the company that criticizes the state’s elected officials who are requiring them to track the age of users.
The company said the newly passed law impinges on “the rights of adults to access protected speech” and fails to pass strict scrutiny by “employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’s stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors.”
What kind of “small government” legislates morality?
They want to ban it nationwide
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
-A Promise to America", Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 5, Project 2025
as psychologically destructive as any crime.
…what? Just because something is a crime doesn’t make it “psychologically destructive.”
Removing tags on mattresses has left me a shell of a man.
May both sides of your pillows always be hot and your socks slightly damp.
Ohh we’ve been looking for you, buddy 🤨
Remember, one of the defining traits of right-wing political movements is the redefining of words. When a Conservative says “small government” what they really mean is “a government that can enforce our morals and values, but is incapable of enforcing rights, regulations, or equality.”
Pretty sure “government” is what they call their dicks.
They are definitely “small government conservatives” then.
A theocracy (an autocratic one if they get their way)
I sure hope all porn sites follow Porn Hub’s lead. Just block Texas from viewing porn. Then I hope all broadband and cable TV operators follow suit as well, can’t have transexual cock on VOD or PPV. Let’s see how quickly Texas falls back in line. It won’t happen, but I can dream.
I’m in North Carolina and the porn has been blocked since New Year’s. The hentai websites are the only ones I have access to. (E621 is also blocked).
Get yourself a VPN or learn to sail the high seas!
TIL there are people still paying for PPV porn on cable after we invented an entire worldwide network of porn you can access for free.
Disabled porn, thats kind of my thing
-Greg Abbott
He’s also good at getting logged on.
At least this’ll probably push more people to hate Republicans. Like, fucking with a man’s porn supply is just political suicide. At least I hope it is.
Don’t worry they’ll find a way to blame Biden.
Anything is possible when logic, facts, and reality don’t matter.
Maybe… I would have thought treating women like chattel would do it… But apparently not.
cattle ? or is chattel a thing ? not american speaker
All blocking porn in the states will do is push users to sites hosted in the EU/Russia/Brazil/etc. Probably with even fewer safety checks or regulations.
Came here to say this too. All they’re doing is pushing the users of those sites to less reputable sites
I know how I was as a kid, and I sure as shit wouldn’t have stopped because my state said “no”
I can almost guarantee that the EU would have better regulations. Given that the US doesn’t even have anything akin to GDPR. If you’re in the EU and get a “sorry we can’t let you use our site because of GDPR” warning, you should consider it a blessing in disguise. Because it means the US users are getting their data harvested and sold without their knowledge or consent, and the GDPR prevents that.
You may overestimate how technical the average person is. Think of the sort that would never bother with Lemmy.
They’ll go farther for porn.
Shiiit, that’s how I learned to disable a Mac’s password from boot as a kid
I think this is one most people would figure out in time. After getting blocked on their go-to website, they’ll google or bing or whatever videos, and eventually find some that aren’t blocked and bookmark them.
Just tried it. Yep, no access. Just a long message lambasting Texas politicians.
I tried all the other regular sites, no issues.
They’re gonna need an industry wide cooperation to successfully combat this.
I tried it, got the block message, and then tried it with a Kansas City VPN just to see if it would work. It did.
I really liked the message though. Texas legislators are dumb af if they don’t think that this is going to push people to use websites without ID requirements and less stringent rules on content creation/safety.
I mean, they were dumb af before this, but they’re extra dumb now too.
Same lol. Pretty interesting read - Phub advocates for age verification on the device level rather than an individual website level.
I turned off my VPN and same. I talked to a buddy and found out they’re doing it in NC and Virginia too.
Texan here. Porn’s busted. Brb gotta go watch dune 2 with popcorn now.
Use VPN.
The cum must flow
Ask for the promotion bucket with extra butter
My guess is rape rate will increase instead
https://slate.com/culture/2006/10/proof-that-internet-porn-prevents-rape.html
If porn is the only thing stopping someone from raping another person, then their problems are a whole lot deeper than porn
So? If porn is the only thing that stopped me from getting raped, then my problem is solved. I’d call that a win.
The perspective we need
Showing once again the disconnect between lawmakers and the public they are meant to serve.
Interestingly, according to the article, the biggest effect is in 15-19 year olds; which are the people the law is intended to bar from accessing porn. Granted, I have no idea how good the underlying study that article is based off of is.
Doed the article not link to the study?
Texans will have to get their porn the old fashioned way now- finding an old magazine in the woods.
Guess it’s time Sears started mailing out their catalogs again…
For real? That’s how we got ours too! (I’m exactly stranger things age.) Who was leaving all the porn in the woods?!?! Why? Why are anthropologists not dropping everything to figure this out?
Same when I was a younger teen. Then when I got to be an older teen with access to that I used to leave my stacks in the woods when I was done. Circle of life.
Sniff…maybe I should try to reconcile with my older brother… 😥
The party of “small government” strikes again
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In other news, VPN sales in Texas skyrocket.
Imaging knowing how to VPN, but not knowing how to vote to keep your rights.
Maybe compared to previous usage, but I doubt that most of the population will use a VPN for that.
Paxton is just trying to raise the money he wanted the taxpayers to pay for his corruption. The guy is a joke of a human.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/16/ken-paxton-impeachment-allegations/
