• @[email protected]
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        Trump branded chastity cages.

        What I hate most is that that would be an effective tactic for right wing extremist groups. Keeping men sexually frustrated and insecure in their masculinity is a powerful tool for them.

        Actually come to think of it, I really wouldn’t be surprised if there were a variety of political themed pro dommes these days. It seems like it would be lucrative

    • @[email protected]
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      • @[email protected]
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        Oh shitting hell lads, it’s Boris The Bouncer Bot!

        Quick lads, run! Scarper before he tackles and smothers you unconscious!

    • @[email protected]
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      Idaho is starting a registry for at-risk men with erections, to prevent impure thoughts. You need to send a picture of your dick, where it will be validated by an evangelical priest.

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    This is pretense to intrude on other things and more importantly remove the ability to browse pornography anonymously, which is dangerous. I would never use an account to browse a porn site because why would I ever want that data linked back to me? Look at the government right now. You watch a gay or trans porn video and in a few years that could be grounds for never being able to have certain types of jobs or worse, being deemed a “miscreant”

    If this was truly about protecting children they would encourage open dialogue on sex in homes and increase inclusive sex education. This is evidence based. It would still be necessary even with this nonsense because obviously vpns exist, as well as amateur run sites, sites run from outside of the USA, torrents, etc that don’t give a shit about us laws requiring age verification and will show all kinds of obscenely hardcore videos

    • @[email protected]
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      KOSA would require age verification for these sites and social networking. Nationally.

      Luckily the bill appears to be dead

  • @[email protected]
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    Soon they’ll start recording you jerking it to cross reference with previous sessions as identity confirmation.

    • @[email protected]
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      Well, they know what parts of what videos you watch, your favorite keywords, time/days patterns, location, I’d say they can train AI on that data

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        ChatGPT will be drawing conclusions from the data like “Subject is likely a tipthumbing twister (86.436% confidence) with content dependent high frequency intervals (94.738% confidence)”

        It’ll analyze things like minor mouse movements, microphone audio, and use that wifi radar trick.

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      Can you imagine, training rec algos for porn sites on intensity of movement and facial expressions…

      Edit: if this ever happens (and I’m 85% convinced it will in some way), I’ll just start crankin’ to financial spreadsheets and medication specs, keep’em guessing.

      • Echo Dot
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        I would skip to when they start telling you about the side effects. So hot.

  • @[email protected]
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    The whole porn ban thing is probably my all-time favorite example of conservatives voting against themselves.

    Meanwhile, in California, I can watch all the porn I want without registering myself in a database and walk down the street to the weed store. And the women in my life still have rights over their own bodies.

    So I guess Democrats are actually the party of freedom.

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      B- b- but, California b-b-bad! 🥺 Don’t you see how oppressed you are? You’re really oppressed out there. 🥺

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        California is bad for voting to keep prison slavery and refusing to solve the housing crisis with a council housing system much like the UK used to have.

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          Perfection is the ultimate enemy of good. I’d rather be in a place like California than some red state where I have to upload my ID to look at boobs.

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          Council housing? You mean social security houses that get supplied to you if you earn almoat nothing?

          The Netherlands has that to this day, but that doesn’t solve the issue

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      It’s all relative. Lots of personal freedom, taxed like a mother fucker.

      As it should be honestly but there are many people that don’t see it that way and view taxation as a form of oppression.

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          I don’t think the above commenter is saying GOP isn’t worse, but having lived there for a few years and since moved away, it’s taxed quite a bit more than other states. You definitely get a lot more out of it, so it’s just that tradeoff. Either you pay little taxes and have to pay separately for private things to do everything yourself (good for rich people, bad for everyone else), or you pay more taxes but have way more public services.

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      And your gas costs $10 a gallon and your houses cost $5 million for a shit box. Hmmm… trade offs…

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      Hey the cum can be anywhere. It doesn’t say “only” a picture of your face.

      For example, why not put a mirror on a table. Put your ID next to the mirror. Look down into the mirror and ready your camera. Then, slap your dick right on the table next to the ID. Finally, banana for size.

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      That sounds like a chicken and egg problem. How is the cum getting on the ID before accessing the porn? If you use another means, surely you will no longer be in the mood for accessing a porn site…

  • RejZoR
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    “Verification is carried out by 3rd party”. Totally no potential to misuse of collected data.

    • Echo Dot
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      Well at least it’s not going to the federal government so it should be somewhat safe

      • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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        The third party has a very secure agreement to very securely sell data to 572 advertising partners and that is very securely being bought by the FBI.

        Not that outlandish, since the FBI and the US police already buys advertising data streams to get access to data they are prohibited to collect directly.

        It’s so bad there are already middlemen who buy data and compile it into products for law enforcement.

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          You forgot to mention that of course 253 of the 572 advertising partners consider their use to be a ‘legitimate interest’ under privacy legislation despite being nothing even close.

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        If it was last administration I’d say it’s just slightly annoying that our day was going to the federal government. But it’s admin…maybe not

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          I don’t want any administration to be able to. They should absolutely be able to buy it so long as they have a warrant for that instance of that individual or if the individual agrees to cooperate in that instance without coercion.

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    Florida 🤝 UK

    Ridiculous and archaic anti-porn laws

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      If they knew that, they wouldn’t have made the post

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        They’ll ultimately just have to cut off the US Internet from the rest of the world, right? As long as we can access other countries with more freedom, we can enjoy that level of freedom on the Internet. Or am I not understanding how the Internet works (entirely possible)?

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          If it makes you feel any better, you can rest assured that Capitol Hill doesn’t know how the Internet works either.

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            " And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material." - Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens

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              I mean as far as metaphors go, it’s really not that bad. It’s visual and immediately understandable, and at least connected to the underlying thing it’s describing (network traffic really does flow down a series of wries/cables that are functionally “tubes” of electrons or photons). Hell, people have been likening an internet connection to a “pipe” since at least the 90s (it was already a thing when I first got internet access in '95).

              Sure the guy who said it was a dickbag, but I can think of a dozen worse analogies offhand.

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              To be fair, at this late date, the tubes analogy isn’t that bad. I forget what point he was trying to make though.

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                I think he was trying to download something, it was taking time, and he thought the requested files are all in order in “the tubes”. He had to wait for the other files to be delivered before his arrived.

                …or something.

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                He wasn’t necessarily wrong, he was just an asshole. The context for the meme was a speech he gave in vehement opposition to a proposed bill amendment which would have codified net neutrality principles into law. The concept he was blundering through explaining was basically just an eli5 version of limited bandwidth. I send this message (or, in his parlance, this internet) from my phone to Lemmy. It travels through a series of tubes to get there. If the tubes are clogged with traffic, my message might have to get in line. And that’s not fair to people who have the money to not be treated like a poor.

                Fun fact, Senator Stevens was the longest serving senator to lose a bid for reelection, largely due the fact that he was embroiled in a big corruption scandal at the time. The conviction ended up being vacated due to prosecutorial misconduct though, and I didn’t care to dive any deeper, but I’m inclined to believe he was a grifter. Rest in piss.

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                  All valid points. Except for the one about not having to be treated like you’re poor, but I think that one was made in jest.

          • @[email protected]
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            The people pushing these laws are hoping it will have the “California Effect.”

            Like when California says “Cars need to meet X emissions standards” so far makers just make cars everywhere meet those standards.

            They are hoping that by making age verification a thing in a few states, it will become a thing everywhere.

            This fails to realize that one, it’s easy to geofence a state online (VPNs being anwork around). And Two, companies generally comply with California laws because, on the whole, California passes mostly positive limitations. It only makes the cars and world better if they all meet the better emissions standards. Blocking porn like this, is a net negative.

            Also, on the subject of kids accessing porn. They are going to do it anyway, anyone thinking otherwise is oblivious to the world, and two, it’s not up to the state to nanny this shit, it’s up to the parents.

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              I agree with all of that. What I don’t agree with is blaming the entirety of the US for this policy. This is one dumbass state, doing a dumbass thing. The UK passed a similar law and I’d be just as wrong if I shit talked the rest of Europe for it.

              • skulblaka
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                As of January 2025:

                While Pornhub is not blocked in Louisiana, it is blocked in these 17 states, a Pornhub representative confirmed to Mashable:

                Alabama

                Arkansas

                Florida

                Idaho

                Indiana

                Kansas

                Kentucky

                Mississippi

                Montana

                Nebraska

                North Carolina

                Oklahoma

                South Carolina

                Tennessee

                Texas

                Utah

                Virginia

                In Louisiana, where users must submit ID to view Pornhub, the site has seen traffic decline by around 80 per cent, Aylo (Pornhub’s parent company) told Mashable.

                This is not just “Oh Florida is just being quirky again” this is systematic.

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              When it comes to emissions laws, car co usually build a range just for California. It’s not hard to slate a few days just for a different exhaust.

            • Schadrach
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              And Two, companies generally comply with California laws because, on the whole, California passes mostly positive limitations.

              No, companies generally comply with California laws because California is a massive market. Companies don’t, on the whole, operate on what is mostly positive for society according to a specific flavor of progressive.

              Companies operate on what is most profitable, and selling to California is usually good for profits, while running a separate production line just for California usually isn’t worth it. So if the regulations aren’t too expensive to meet, they’ll just switch the whole production over to meet California law because that minimizes costs and maximizes sales. The same kind of thing also happens with Texas, for much the same reason - especially with textbooks.

      • @[email protected]
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        It’s impossible to ban all VPNs. And even if they somehow do it, you can get a VPS(virtual private server) from one of the cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) and host your own vpn service (OpenVPN, Algo, Vultr). You don’t need to know a lot about it, there are step-by-step guides for it.

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          Yup, I have my own VPS hosted in Oregon, so if worst comes to worst, I can route my traffic through there.

        • Liquidthex
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          Companies have been compiling lists of which IP blocks are consumer Internet and which are cloud services. That’s why some VPNs are now selling home internet IP VPNs.

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    This will never be removed. There will only ever going to be more types of websites that have to use this

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      I wonder if that’ll end up being true. I’d guess these constituents represent voters that watch porn at least as much on average as anyone else. I’m going to go ahead and guess above average. They might get tired of this and push for change. But I’m also admittedly less educated on how our political system works than I should be and might be overestimating how much influence Florida Man has because he’s disgruntled at having to jump through hurdles to fap.

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        The problem is that it’s political suicide to be the “pro sex, pro smut” politician. Consistently the counters to anti sexual freedom laws have come from the courts. By saying “age verification on porn has gone too far,” a politician more or less accepts that their entire campaign is going to be about this. And when that happens the right has the advantage because they have the ability to be short and quippy as they misrepresent you and play to emotions.

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          This is the same reason japan still blurs genitals. Someone decades ago got that law passed and now no one is gonna campaign on changing it. Theoretically it should be easier to do in a parliamentary system (a few years back there was a single member of congress elected from the “no more tv taxes” party), but even still it’d be tough. In the states it has zero chance.

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHK_Party

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            Yeah, and its why we never repealed the Comstock laws. Its also why unconstitutional laws should be automatically stricken from the books, not merely deemed unenforcable

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    Me: This is America.

    Pornhub: This content is not available in your state due to ID verification legislation.

    My VPN: This is Germany.

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    This is a great opportunity to learn how to use a VPN! I’m in a blue state so haven’t needed one yet, but the time is definitely coming.

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      Yup, my red state pulled this nonsense, so I made a WiFi network that connects to a VPN for you in a less stupid state. If I get blocked somewhere, I just change WiFi networks.

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      Nowadays, there’s not much to learn. For user-friendly OSes, just install the VPN app, sign in like any other service, and, at a minimum, hit “go”. Most people will want to scroll through a list of locations of where they want to appear to be, choose a location, then hit “go”.