Pornhub disables website in Texas over objection to age verification law
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Parents really need to stop putting iPads in toddlers hands and actually start, err, parenting.
You can't prevent adolescents from accessing porn. I used to dial-up to playboy.com. Magazines were available too as dad's just left them out. Kids know VPNs nowadays too.
Their idea of having everyone submit government ID to view website content is ridiculous.
You can join the military at 17. But in Texas, I guess you can't look at porn for another year.
Pornography has well researched addictive and other negative properties, especially for youth.
Has it actually? I know phrases like "porn addiction" are casually used, but the last time I looked there wasn't much study of it in terms of the science of addiction. Most of the people self-reporting porn addiction were experiencing distress because of the incompatibility of their porn use with their religious beliefs, but their use itself wasn't extreme or pathological per se.
Which doesn't mean there aren't problems with it, or that it can't cause extreme problems for some people. But in my exposure to addiction medicine, it's treated more as a psychosocial compulsion like shopping or video game addiction.
There's a lot of misleading or outright misinformation about the effects of pornography. For instance one study claiming an incredibly high rate of abuse depicted in pornography categorized ejaculating on someone's face as abuse. It's also very hard to research because it's difficult to establish controls: almost all men watch pornography.
Also haphazard, ineffective and dangerous; basically just punts it down the hall.
Maybe The Bandit can be goaded on a bet, to deliver a truckload of DVDs from Atlanta.
There is a vague "digital identification" option that I don't understand. There is a transactional data option that includes things like looking at your mortgage or education records. Then there is a "government-issued identification" option.
There is also a "$10,000 per instance when the entity retains identifying information" clause. I'm reading that as that an account couldn't be verified once, you'd have to go through the verification every session?
The required text on the landing page and bottom of every page is also interesting. "Pornography ... weakens brain function"
It's not just fetishes, and it seems the tastes deviate a fair amount from most of the more normal kink krowd. The worst version of mens tastes are really commonplace, and almost promoted, or at least normalized.
It seems that many of the content creators have made their peace with it, so it's often not the most fringe stuff. Even small timers and your local performers take part.
"it's just business" or "at least they're only watching movies with (hopefully 100%) willing actors" is what the workers say.
They don't like paying tax
They like having firearms and the right to murder other humans, king of the castle rules etc.
They want to control other people's genitals
Pretty much everything falls under those rules, which is the opposite of anything that Jesus said yet call themselves Christian.
I wish your perception was aligned with reality, and I see why you have the perception that you do. For all the talk of freedoms, conservatives quite often love to regulate anything that isn't supported by their understanding of Christian doctrine.
Separation of church and state? You betcha! Wouldn't want spooky non-Christian religious iconography in public areas. But of course, no one would be opposed to a Ten Commandments Monument, so we'll go commission that with tax payer dollars and place it at the state capitol. What's this?! The Satanic Church wants to put a statue of Baphomet there as well? Unacceptable! That's just them being petty, immature pranksters. Your actions are only righteous if we deem them reasonable! We should try our hardest to remove the Baphomet statue while keeping the Ten Commandments Monument, all while trying to keep a straight face despite the hypocrisy.
Not in Texas, but that's actually the kind of bullshit that happens elsewhere in the states: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Baphomet
In Texas you're totally, completely free! I mean, apart from the prohibition of a whole host of victimless actions. We don't like what you're doing and find you icky for doing it; better prepare your legal defense.
The reality is that, despite conservatives' (especially conservative Texans') hypocritical claims to the contrary, both the left and the right LOVE regulation. They just can't agree on which freedoms to strip away.
Is there a state that does uphold the values of freedom the most?