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[–] BaronVonBort@lemmy.world 88 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Texas residents using a VPN for porn

[–] Desistance@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

And Louisiana. People forget that it was first in the porn ban that doesn't even work.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Virginia living up to its name with the state mandated NoFap challenge.

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

I live close enough to Tennessee that I turn off my WiFi and let the cellular take me there haha.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] refalo@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are 17 states that have passed or introduced bills requiring age verification for access to porn sites: New Jersey, West Virginia, Virginia, Oregon, Minnesota, South Dakota, Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, South Carolina and Florida.

[–] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Oregon? I thought Oregon was blue

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

What a joke. My home is WV and I'm currently in VA. Didn't even notice either state had a porn ban. Get your fucking religion out of politics though.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Bout to be CO too, not just limited to red states unfortunately.

Admittedly, it's not just for porn, but social media in general. Either way, the same reasoning applies, I'm not giving a third party company my identity just for a social media account and I'm certainly not going to do it for porn

[–] sznowicki@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone explain it to Europeans?

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Several states with republican leadership have required identification to view sites that have "adult content". You technically can still access it without a VPN in these states, but I'm not trusting these sites with personally identifying information. Depending on the state I think you have to upload an image of your ID and other information. It's really sketchy.

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

What the fucking fuck. In Europe this would cause French and Germans combined beheading entire governments. One thing I want to keep to myself is my porn choices. Giving my ID to a porn site sounds like a big fucking NO

[–] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thats odd. I seem to remember the UK's IWF breaking Wikipedia trying to block a CD album image. Must have been an illusion

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

UK quit Europe remember? They don't count, the poor suckers.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

"The land of freedom!"

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you theoretically fake the ID cards with image-generating AI?

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

I think they're looked up to verify they're authentic. I'm not certain, but I'm pretty sure that's the case. If it isn't then it'd be easier to just take an image of a real ID and modify it rather than using image generation to hope it comes out correct.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

Oh man, this is a much better comparison.

It's still not perfect, though, since technically porn isn't banned, but it's effectively banned by requiring ID checking, which major websites like pornhub refuse to do.

But this also allegedly targets "culture", just like China's great firewall. It's pretty damn stupid.