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.”
Texans will have to get their porn the old fashioned way now- finding an old magazine in the woods.
Prior to the internet that was the best way to get it.
I can’t imagine what the older generations were doing out there with stacks of Playboys, but I’m sure glad they didn’t care about leaving them out there for us to find.
Guess it’s time Sears started mailing out their catalogs again…
Texan prepper here. I’ve downloaded ~2000 videos from PH over the years just in case.
Share it on torrents
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… 😥
Ew don’t sniff them, you don’t know where they’ve been.
Surely you mean don’t sniff them, you know exactly where they’ve been.
What’s Teddy going to do now to pass the time??
He may have to go back to serial killing.
VPN to Cancun
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XVideos.
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If we were playing “Who wants to be a millionaire?” Id choose this answer.
he was already there.
The party of “small government” strikes again
They want the government to be small so it can fit in your pants.
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/
Classic Atlas shrugging moment.
The meme: Oh noooo Texas. So I started VPNing…
My guess is rape rate will increase instead
https://slate.com/culture/2006/10/proof-that-internet-porn-prevents-rape.html
Showing once again the disconnect between lawmakers and the public they are meant to serve.
There isn’t just pornhub in Texas!
If porn is the only thing stopping someone from raping another person, then their problems are a whole lot deeper than porn
Thank you. This had to be said. Our culture is gravely ill…
Yes. But not the problems of the victim.
Indeed!
While true it still is stopping them. I don’t really care that much of a person is intrinsically a good person or not I care what their action’s are.
Question: what do you call someone capable of the act of rape that has never raped anyone? Answer: normal.
Well said. In a world without stop signs, traffic lights, laws and judges, the people who think they’re the most wholesome may otherwise be the most vicious perpetrators.
We like to think being a good person is an innate thing. Truth is, hatred, jealousy, lust, anger, murder, rape, violence - they’re all human nature. Every single person reading this comment is capable of murder if the set of circumstances required it. Societal conditioning (including education), the environment you’re raised in, social punishments, the threat of lack of freedom, and learned introspection are the factors preventing people from doing these things.
If you’re the nicest person someone has met, then you lucked out, but it has very little to do with your ‘true nature.’ One caveat: some people seem to be born with a predisposition towards violence. Not many are porn with a predisposition to anti-violence. It’s as innate in humans as the English language.
I can’t count the number of times in AA and NA I heard stories about people not knowing it wasn’t ‘normal’ to get fucked up and beat their spouse until they were out of their parents house.
Religion can sometimes prevent mass murderers, so you’re absolutely right
Doubt.
I’m full on anti-religion, but some crazies have said the fear of eternal damnation is the only reason they don’t go out murdering
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
I agree with you. However, that’s oversimplifying the matter. I don’t think every case in which “porn helped prevent a rape” has porn as the one and only reason.
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.
The ones that most definetely know how to use a vpn…
It’s gonna be the boomer politicians that are big mad and can’t figure out a work around.
The ones that most definetely know how to use a vpn…
There are plenty of 15-19 year olds who are good with computers, but also plenty who aren’t
The goal post for what “being good at computers” has moved quite a bit, stuff that was distinctly only known to the nerds and geeks is now common knowledge to the younger generations, just from what I’ve seen of my younger relatives compared to my geekyness growing up lol.
What types of stuff do you mean?
Doed the article not link to the study?
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Also what did I just read???
I mean if Texans have no porn, what use is their cock for? It just gets in the way. I assume that they will add a travel ban so men can’t fly to other states to watch porn? Maybe make it illegal to help a brother out and drive them to Alabama or something to watch porn?
I have seen that on interdimensional cable
Lotta lone wanks in the lone star tonight boyyy
As a Texan, I’ve been using a VPN for about a decade now, so this doesn’t affect me in the slightest.
Spoken like a true texan.
🤡
Phew! Praise the gods! I am relieved. I was worried you in particular were being affected by this. Now that I know you are alright I can stop reading. Everyone! This guy is alright! He has his porn!
I got mine is a very texas thing. Ask a texan about a rule they don’t like and they’ll tell you how they cheat the rule.
Most browsers have built-in VPNs. They can still watch their sisters.
Texan here. Porn’s busted. Brb gotta go watch dune 2 with popcorn now.
Ask for the promotion bucket with extra butter
Wack without rhythm.
But that won’t attract a worm!
Use VPN.
The cum must flow
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.
Maybe… I would have thought treating women like chattel would do it… But apparently not.
cattle ? or is chattel a thing ? not american speaker
Chattel is a specific type of slavery:
In chattel slavery, the slave is legally rendered the personal property (chattel) of the slave owner.
I’m almost afraid to ask, but what other forms of slavery are there that means you aren’t the property of a slave owner?
Slaves can also be owned by the state, rather than individuals. Weirdly some empires had slave armies, for example. In other cases slaves have significant rights, including their own property; Roman slaves could save money and buy their own freedom (although many slaves were worked to death in mines, or used for sex, so it was definitely still shit). In some cultures children of slaves were free (technically, although still starting from a terrible position). There was also indentured servitude, where you agreed to be a slave for a limited time period - a lot of people came to the Americas for free, but were slaves for a few years in exchange (before Europeans started buying chattel slaves from Africa, which gave better return on their investment, as long as you didn’t mind being evil).
alright thanks
Don’t worry they’ll find a way to blame Biden.
Anything is possible when logic, facts, and reality don’t matter.
They should have also added a bit about big government intrusion into their personal privacy rights. They have to speak the conservative language to conservatives to really get them riled up.
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.
I’m sure that a national firewall is next. These right wing freedom humpers are deeply envious of totalitarian regimes.
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.
Nah, the Sears catalog is about to come back in a BIG way in Texas.
