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[–] captainastronaut@seattlelunarsociety.org 287 points 1 year ago (8 children)

How is it these laws can get passed but our legislatures can’t do anything that’s actually important for society? 

[–] paddington@lemmy.world 291 points 1 year ago (17 children)

It's so much worse than that. North Carolina House Bill 8 was created a year ago to add Computer Science to middle school and high school curriculums. Throughout it's 3 edits over the year, all 10 pages of the bill were about teaching kids computer science. Then, ONE WEEK before the bill was passed, a paragraph on the last page was added including the text requiring age verification for adult websites. https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookup/2023/H8

At that point it was too late, and anyone against the bill would be called out for being against teaching kids computer science. The cowards writing these bills know that they would be shot down immediately if they were public about what they were doing, so they tack it on to a children's education bill and hope no one notices until it's too late.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 204 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That kind of shit should really be illegal

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 123 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It is illegal where I live. I imagine it's illegal in most developed countries. Bills can only have one purpose, they can't combine unrelated things.

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I've heard of several cases in the USA where they combine unrelated things to mess with voters. Even this one is kinda related but school education plus internet censorship. Split that shit up and let the people vote for what they want.

Edit: it's a rider

[–] Rootiest@lemmy.world 81 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Several cases?" Lol

Virtually every bill that passes in Congress contains riders and typically only passes because of those riders.

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[–] Smacks@lemmy.world 181 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Republicans doing a real good job giving a peek into what voting Red will do for them this year

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 11 months ago

The children are saved and wont see porn ever /s

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[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 161 points 1 year ago

Christian taliban

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 159 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (109 children)

Yeah bruh, I try to avoid porn. Personal decision. PERSONAL. Stay the fuck out of everyone’s goddamn lives. Fucking fascist republican swine.

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[–] burliman@lemmy.world 154 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Once again, a vice is blamed for its own sake, “for the children”, instead of the thing people are running from, or the hole they are filling. It’s the Right’s version of virtue signaling.

Porn addiction is just an addiction, and removing porn will not remove addiction in people. Thirst can’t be cured by drying up the well. Saying nothing about the constitutionality of this, restricting potentially addictive content through nanny state ID systems is worthless… check history. South Korea plan was dropped, UK plans for the same thing were dropped. It's not only ineffective, as kids will always find a way through the cracks, but it also extremely difficult to implement and erodes the bedrock of privacy. We're not solving addiction, we're just building a surveillance state under the guise of protection. Solutions are in addressing the root causes of addiction and fostering resilience, not in this game of whack-a-mole that sacrifices our privacy.

[–] TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago (12 children)

I get wanting to keep porn away from children, but on the flipside I don't trust governments with a history of criminalizing homosexuality with my porn history. Looking up, it seems that these states even kept laws against sodomy in their books.

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[–] urquell@lemm.ee 43 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

or the hole they are filling.

Heh

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[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 133 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Classic big government nanny state move. That political party which claims to be against this sort of overreach must be upset over it, right?

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[–] redcalcium@lemmy.institute 118 points 1 year ago (25 children)

VPN companies don't need much advertising these days. The customers will come by themselves!

[–] maynarkh@feddit.nl 72 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The customers will come by themselves!

Nice.

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[–] Ibex0@lemmy.world 108 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Imagine linking your porn watching to your government ID? It WILL leak, and you'll be embarrassed. 😳

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 95 points 1 year ago (13 children)

It's real generous of these states to boost business for VPN companies like this

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[–] WraithGear@lemmy.world 90 points 1 year ago (11 children)

In Virginia, they are required to gather personal information and that’s weird. So its just not available here. But when you think of it, porn hub went to great lengths to minimize the problems with the industry. And these sort of regulations are doing the same thing that prohibition did. Push normal citizens into interacting with seedy elements, dangerous situations, and exploitation.

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[–] KpntAutismus@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 85 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's ridiculous that elected officials can be so unbelievably fucking stupid.

What a fucking waste of tax dollars

[–] hex_m_hell@slrpnk.net 74 points 1 year ago (2 children)

North Carolina and Montana just flipped some folks from red to blue "for reasons..."

[–] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 72 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 71 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (16 children)

Well I guess it's back to the garbage bag of porn mags in the woods for North Carolina and Montana kids.

Seriously tho, who is this law stopping? When I was a kid I would traverse the entire city if it meant there was a chance I'd see a boob.

If I had to start torrenting porn I would probably develop a serious habit from having to curate my own library. I would also gain full access to videos I normally wouldn't bother with making everything even more involved.

The beauty of pornhub is you load it up, do some minor browsing, settle on something and forget all about it. Having to maintain a personal library would consume more of your time and you would develop even more intense prefrences.

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[–] aceshigh@lemmy.world 70 points 11 months ago (10 children)

best of all, this strategy isn't going to decrease viewership, probably increase it. it's also going to increase the usage of vpn's.

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[–] crystalmerchant@lemmy.world 68 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Lol I was just in Utah and on a home wifi there, pornhub was blocked (100% blocked, like you cannot access the site).

But if I switched to data, it was not blocked

Lol -- how's that working out for ya, Utah??

[–] ook_the_librarian@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lol -- how's that working out for ya, Utah??

Kinda perfectly. The lawmakers don't want to block porn; they want their constituents to think they are effective. The people that don't go to pornhub hear it's blocked (well that's nice) and the ones that go, find a work around (some people like it being hard). They hope the work around is innocuous enough to be forgotten by election day.

I hope they miscalculated. I don't see how blocking porn and weed is a winning strategy. I don't understand this country. Life could be fun. We have all the ingredients.

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[–] The_Worst@feddit.nl 60 points 1 year ago (3 children)

In only a couple of years girls aren't allowed to go to school anymore.

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 57 points 1 year ago

I hope those hosts provide a nice greeting page explaining which politicians are guilty of this, and how sneaky their underhand rider was abusing the legal system.

[–] TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz 55 points 1 year ago

In other news: Reports of malware on home users' PCs spike in North Carolina and Montana.

[–] Carmakazi@lemmy.world 51 points 11 months ago (8 children)

"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.[20]" — "A Promise to America", Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 5, Project 2025

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[–] DBT@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Meanwhile, the other sites are promoting trans anal piss porn, so that’s what I’m into now I guess, since that’s the only option.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

Don't worry, yiff (furry porn) always makes it past safe search and content blockers, so you will have at least one other category. I'm sure that blocking mundane porn won't backfire at all :)

[–] Omgarm@lemmy.world 51 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The world isn't ready for conservative furry states.

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[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From my cold, dead, well-lubricated hands! Suddenly all this porn hoarding I’ve been doing all these years doesn’t seem so crazy after all. Well, maybe a little.

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[–] Mango@lemmy.world 39 points 11 months ago

So what are they gonna do? Figure out how to bill companies all over the world for not knowing their local bullshit and accommodating it? Fucking clowns.

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