The number of states blocked by Pornhub will soon nearly double.
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There’s a phrase that used to be used to defend gun rights, ‘If you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns.’
If you make porn illegal only illegal porn will exist. They’re not eliminating porn they’re just shifting the source of porn to websites that don’t care about compliance with US laws.
the only way to stop a bad guy with porn is with a good guy with porn.
This is 100% true. Its like with weed. People will consume it. They don’t care if its illegal. Illegal weed only causes the black market to control everything and fuck up consumers.
Marijuana is much easier to control as it is physical and lingers in the body. It is physical vs digital.
You can copy and download data all day long. It is the same reason why banning encryption will not make encryption go away overnight.
Yeah, but the principle is literally the same.
It literally isn’t. Weed leaves a trace everywhere it goes as it is a physical substance
I definitely leave a trace everywhere after watching porn
Wet wipes are helpful if you’d rather not.
Ironically, yes!
I would be ENTIRELY unsuprised if we found out these state governments were full of people who bought a lot of VPN company stocks just before the news hit. Particularly Utah. It’s practically free money.
If you remove the porn from the internet, there will be one site left, and it will be called Bring Back The Porn.
Shit shit shit, this one’s really rolling around. Dr cox? It feels Monty Python, but I’m hearing it in John C McGinley’s over affected JD drawl.
It is Dr Cox
It is Dr Cox.
The porn will never even go away. Pornhub might be popular but it’s a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the porn out there.
If you removed the porn from the internet, the very next day a hundred million people will all create their own new internet and finally have a noble purpose for their saved stashes.
Pornhub prepares to be accessed via VPN from five more states rather than check IDs
In all honesty i can only hope that this forces some people to increase their tech-savviness.
I miss the Internet when you needed to know wtf you were doing. Now everything is geared for easy, addictive consumption
I read somewhere that a lot of people don’t even go to websites anymore, they just use apps for their social media and have no idea how to enter a web address or URL.
I feel like the last of a dying breed of mighty wizards because I can configure windows and know how to manage files.
I keep telling older people who seek IT advice from me that knowing how your computer works is like knowing how your car works. And then I tell them that they’re the morons who think the engine is magic, and never change their oil until the car’s in the shop with issues and the mechanic finds what looks like mud in the engine.
Boomers hear that message, it turns out.
It won’t. The average person in America wants the fastest, easiest consumable distraction or pleasure reward and takes no time to learn new things unless it’s dangled in front of them in bite-sized, easy-to-follow tutorials with quest-markers and all kinds of sparkles and chimes when they do something correctly.
They will go to some really terrible alternative that costs money. There are a hundred thousand porn sites right now hoping that they become the next big thing from all this.
If you live in a conservative run state, watch what they do, in Georgia on the final day of legislation they do “sine die” which we sometimes call sign or die day where they just push through a ton of shit with little or no going over it before hand, they passed one of these social media ID laws that targets porn too, and it went through without pretty much anybody knowing about it from what I can tell.
What kind of database of depravity to use against you are these people building.
#1 VPN states. State Tracking will never be popular outside the religious legislative class, everyone else knows it’s an invasion of privacy.
Microsoft security leaks put paid to any hope of security/privacy on govt. databases.
What’s the over/under for state legislators on pornsites?
Fuck them states.
Pornhub will lose more traffic to complying with the nanny bullshit than blocking entire states.
Pornhub’s audience is international, and in some countries they are far, far less backwards and socially repressed and Pornhub and similar companies get revenue without any controversy or danger of consequences.
They do NOT need these shitty states that are just going to continue to pearl-clutch and scream about “morality” as if humans aren’t sexual creatures.
Your mom is a sexual creature.
Just as the state legislatures wanted. This lets them ban pornhub without having to fight with their citizens about banning pornhub.
That thumbnail is more like arse technica
Follow up story to https://lemmy.zip/post/17644791
