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Porn sites are not accessible in Texas as companies cite the onerous process and privacy issues associated with setting up age verification.
Classic GOP Gaslight Obstruct Project
You can’t make porn go away and trying to do that is… Well moronic if what you actually care about is children’s well being. Because to actually restrict it you would need to live in a garbage society. And our society is already garbage here damnit >>
We’ve already seen what White Christian Nationalists are doing with period trackers and data related to abortion clinics. Requiring ID will be a privacy issue, and it will be used against people.
I can see some benefits to this.
- nsfw content might now be even more legally protected I the u.s if viewers are defacto 18 or older. You can argue all night if it’s moral, but as a varified legal age viewer, no government will show up at the websites door over minors accessing. If you don’t think this happens look up some of the biggest names cases and questionings and etc directed at these kinds websites over the years.
It might actual get these nsfw a more official standing, as even today these types of sites are seen as small 3rd partys. They don’t have apps on Google play. But having these types of things in place might make nsfw sites more likely to get an appstore app in the future.
- If minors cannot just easily join such a site like these, and upload nsfw content, your content is much more likely to be legal viewing privately in your home.
How in god’s good green earth does this law do any of that? It only legally binds American companies, and only where the site is mostly NSFW content.
Want porn? Go to a UK site. Or go to any site that’s 70% other content. Or if you’re 16 just Google “bikini” and wank to that.
This accomplishes nothing except the illusion of action, virtue signaling to Christians, and restriction of law abiding adults. Waste of time and money. They should be focusing on real things, the like fact Texas is poor and getting poorer.
I’m not for the I.d restriction at all but if the law were pass there are some potential upsides for that industry.
Moron alert
“In what people are calling the Ashley Madison breach of the porn world, fifty million users real life identities and viewing habits have been released on numerous leak sites.”
No thanks, I’ll pass.
Yes. There are downsides such as privacy issues, but if it were to pass, it would give those types of sites, potentially some opportunities they wouldn’t have had before regarding official apps on appstores and just more legality assurance when a user is using them. It’s really a back and forth issue.
It really won’t. Apple doesn’t let any adult content of any kind on it, it’s a hard no. The playstore is likely similar but I honestly don’t know.
It has nothing to do with the fact that minors might get to it, and everything to do with image.
Regarding image, the question might be, would nsfw sites with Id checks be a step up regarding image to Apple and Google Play. Many of these types of sites don’t currently require a credit card, or any real age verification at all, usually very minimally. When any do require, it’s for users In select locations.
No. It would not. Apple would never willingly be seen as “selling smut” on their official store.
Yeah kill this law at all cost then. I was already against it but was trying to look for something good to grasp to from it.
The ID checks will only make things worse. Like 4 free “tube” sites based in America and that are trying to be mainstream and ad-supported (Pornhub and ???) comply with Louisiana’s current ID check law while the 5,000 sites based anywhere else on Earth don’t give a shit. Most probably don’t even filter for CSAM.
Half the internet is porn. Reddit has porn. There’s a Lemmy instance for NSFW stuff. To imagine they’re going to stop teens from finding smut because the “reputable” site checks ID is just willful naivety.
Also, I realize the goal of the Texas law is to label anything GLBT+ as “porn.” I’m not the naive one in this case. But the arguments in the case aren’t about the hidden agenda of conservatives.
It’s just step 1.
Once you get the big players with heavy wallets out of the way, then you can go after search engines that list it. Search engines probably don’t have enough motive to fight it, and the big players already packed their bags. Once it’s no longer on Google/Bing it may as well not exist for the vast majority of people.
There was an article about one of the masterminds behind these laws that got secretly recorded and he basically confirmed what I just said. ID laws are the start.
I have not seen the acronym written as GLBT in quite a long time.
I wonder if switching up the order more often would be a good way to remind everyone that every letter is a separate group of people
BLTG - bisexual language translation group
Bacon, lettuce, tomato, and guacamole
Don’t forget the quinoa!
They probably aim to pivot to some technical issue causing them to retain user sessions with facial ids attached so theres kompromat on voters.
Be a real shame if your Trump-voting, anti-LGBT+ family and neighbors learned about one’s penchant for interracial tranny tentacle porn
Also, I realize the goal of the Texas law is to label anything GLBT+ as “porn.”
They may not even need to go that far. The age verification laws going around these days tend to require it for content “harmful to minors”, not just porn, and everybody knows Republicans think “anything GLBT+” is harmful to minors.
Poor argument by perverts…
Stop advocating for the removal of our rights you fucking moron
If you have kids and you’re worried about what they’re exposed to, then do your goddamn job and be a parent instead of forcing the entire goddamn country to do that job for you. Pervert.
I’m not an advocate for this law actually. Don’t assume. I was looking at some potential upsides. I don’t want my history going to places it doesn’t need to, and I don’t want to use my I.d like most people to view these types of content.
My foccus also was on the legality for the sites, and for the user. Just because I even entertained a few potential benefits, which might never happen. It doesn’t mean I am wanting this law.
Can I please have a copy of your federally accepted ID to continue to access Lemmy? There is content on here that should not be accessed by minors. Please send it immediately or your access shall be cut off.
^^ Also… we have no way to securely prove this information and what you access will not be recorded, reported, nor used against you by any and all potential employers. Police and lawyers included. Hopefully you haven’t accessed any information related to communism, as the red scare is coming back hard.
Privacy is important to many people, apparently you think it is not.
I just checked and Amoxtli’s instance, thelemmy.club doesn’t defederate from lemmynsfw.com!! We have a pervert over here 😲
this is now a pervert meme thread!
Definitely won’t label this user a pervert…
