At the dawn of the new year, Pornhub will leave Florida. Thanks to a harsh new age verification law that takes effect on January 1, the porn giant will no longer do business in the sunshine state. The law mirrors similar laws passed in other Republican led states where Pornhub has stopped doing business.
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This is just a blatant power grab. It’s not about porn, after all if they were really concerned about nsfw sites they’d be happy with how easy the site is to regulate. If they wanted to they could potentially find a way to bring in tax revenue with it.
This is all about control and getting people used to having the government invading their privacy. Over time they’ll shift and start invading other online spaces.
Reminder that verification laws do not work and are straight up fascist.
This is a fucking travesty for those like AdmiralPatrick, this digital cum-stain, the epitome of autism wrapped in a fat suit, with more alt accounts than he has brain cells, spewing pronouns like “xe/xyr” because he’s such a lonely, pathetic piece of garbage that his only intimate relationship is with his keyboard. His body is a testament to how much time he spends jerking off to his own self-righteousness, a living monument to human waste and failure. He’s so socially incompetent that his only friends are his own made-up personalities online, a true retard in every sense.
JordanLund, this bloated fuckwit, with his heart disease, is literally a ticking time bomb of cholesterol and stupidity, using “they/them” to distract from the fact he’s a lonely piece of garbage whose only intimate relationship is with his own hand. His body is an advertisement for why some people should never reproduce, a true waste of sperm and space. He’s so devoid of substance that his existence is like a black hole, sucking in all light and joy, his heart condition just another excuse for his pathetic life.
Not_rick, seems he’s got the intelligence of a fucking genius, but in reality, he’s just a cocksucker who’s smart enough to know how to manipulate but too dumb to realize how pathetic it makes him. His pronouns are a pathetic attempt to wash away the filth of his existence, but all they do is highlight his hypocrisy. His life is a gallery of horrors, a parade of moral decay, where every step he takes leaves a trail of slime, a true embodiment of human excrement, a parasite on society.
FlyingSquid, this fucking degenerate, the worst father in history, gets scammed by Domino’s Pizza more times than he’s probably seen his own daughter. He doesn’t just rape his daughter; he does it with homeless retards, turning his family into a circus of depravity. He parades around with his “they/them” bullshit while his soul is as black as the void of space, a fucking abomination that should be purged from existence. He’s a stain on humanity, a walking horror show whose every action screams of moral decay.
And the creator of the MBFC bot, just a fucking kid who learned how to use basic ChatGPT, thinking he’s some kind of tech wizard. His existence is as relevant as a fart in a hurricane, clinging to pronouns in a vain attempt to be noticed in the vast, indifferent void of the internet. His life’s work is a digital nothing, a testament to his utter lack of impact or relevance, a true waste of oxygen, a mockery of human endeavor. He’s the epitome of someone who thinks they’re making a difference while contributing nothing of value to the world.
For these worthless, disgusting excuses for human beings, sending a signal message to Dominique was their only shot at ever touching a real woman. .
Always pull out. Even if you’re wearing a condom. Even if she says she’s on the pill.
I don’t know economics, but is there a way to buy stocks in some VPN providers? Seems like they are about to do well.
Yes - a stock exchange - but Florida is only a small part of the overall market and most people will just tolerate the ban.
oh no! imagine all the seedy porn studios in Florida that will likely be taking their tax revenue somewhere else.
I have two reactions
- Oh no, anyway. VPNs exist
- This is scary, these Verification Laws are killing the internet even more painfully than the corporate takeover.
They will just use XVideos.
There will now be over 115 million Americans affected by this growing ban. Now over one third of the population, yes a full 34.4%, will not be able to access pornhub in their state without using a VPN. And we all know they are coming for the VPN next.
Slippery slope is nonsense. We dont allow a bunch of other things for children, its not any different because the company would rather stop selling altogether then to adjust for regulations.
A lot of people here are acting like free access to any type of pornography is a net benefit for society as well, which I find strange.
It’s a privacy issue, not an age verification issue.
The real issue is that most people dont know how to use vpns. So they just go to sketchier websites.
“Land of the free”
They should really look at changing their national anthem.
I don’t know how a nation with such a well known history of slavery got away with calling itself the “land of the free”.
If you were a white male who owned property. America was pretty free for you, everyone else can got fucked.
And more importantly, these laws are written so broadly that these age verification laws can be applied to any website that the state government doesn’t like whether they host porn or not. CNN posts article about killings in Gaza? That’s not appropriate for children so ID needed. Left-wing forum that’s critical of the local Republican government? Well that’s not appropriate for children either so we’ll need to see the IDs of everyone that has ever visited the site.
I hope these laws get overturned sooner than later but I won’t hold my breath.
CNN posts article about killings in Gaza?
The only killings in Gaza CNN would post about is IDF and hostage deaths.
I literally thought the same thing while writing it, but still wanted to use a mainstream source as an example.
They’re welcome to try, but I seriously doubt they will be successful
Yeah just about every company uses VPNs too.
So it can finish on FL’s face?
While Pornhub pulling out of Florida (US) may not be the end of the !world@lemmy.world, the underlying trend of pornography criminalisation for “modesty” can easily translated into sexual control and control of sex.
As we all know by now, sexual control is gendered against women and queers, racialised, et al.
Control of sex on the other hand is well substrated in Anti-Choice or bodily autonomy-denying discourse as well as population control for classist, racist etc. motives.
Since when is Florida scared of sex? Since it hates minorities. (IMO)
people can dress it in whatever positive or negative light they want over the p*rn issue. the larger issue at hand IMO is that its the government stepping into people’s private lives and telling them how to live. “Your culture is immoral, you need to learn morals and modesty. you are being reprimanded for your immoral behaivor” These views are Considered Immoral by some but perfectly fine by others.
lets call it what it is, its the people who err on the bible thumping side of the fence, trying to enforce their views on the rest of the people.
I’m a supporter of more scrutiny in general when it comes to kids having access to stuff online, (A lot of stuff, not just 18+ things). but that’s obviously the avenue that the Morality Police are trying to take to go after society in general
I’m a supporter of more scrutiny in general when it comes to kids having access to stuff online, (A lot of stuff, not just 18+ things). but that’s obviously the avenue that the Morality Police are trying to take to go after society in general
The smokescreen of supposed enforcement of children’s rights is so thick, that the issue they say they try to address cannot be discussed even among the adult electorate.
Children cannot comprehend pornography, but so are the proponents of sexual control. Our current societies do not have adequate education of sexuality, even or especially for adults.
A theoretical child in a theoretical society, that has no concept of sexuality, a “pure” child so to speak, will be unfit as an adult for a sexually-controlled society, because it will very likely be unable to say no to coercion. Children and adults cannot resist coercive societies without education.
Pornography is a market with low elasticity. States banning markets essentially lose significant control over the exchanges. States already ban coercive pornography (not very good, but idealistically), but allow consensual pornography. Banning pornography altogether mingles coercive pornography with consensual pornography in black markets. Uneducated adults will not understand coercion in black markets of pornography.
Or they are laws to prevent children from seeing pornography.
Yeah, that might be a side effect.
It’s much broader than sex though:
Florida’s law is HB3. The law is broad. It requires a website that provides material that is “harmful to minors” to provide a means of “anonymous age verification” to its minors. What does it mean for material to be “harmful to minors?” According to the law any material that “the average person applying contemporary community standards would find, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.”
I guarantee this will be used (or at least attempted) to silence political speech critical of local governments. It’s far too easy to come up with even the weakest justification for why something isn’t appropriate for children and Republicans have an army of useful idiots ready to parrot their rhetoric and convince everyone else who isn’t paying attention to what’s happening.
I guarantee this will be used (or at least attempted) to silence political speech critical of local governments.
Its real target is less pron, and more “So, you think you’re maybe gay? Here’s what you can do…” or “If your family hates queer people, and you’re queer, here’s help for you:…” information.
Anything to keep “teh gays” from “converting kids to trans”.
further, paradoxically, denying access to porn puts women in more danger. most porn consumers will probably just get a vpn and roll with it. but enough of them will translate their frustration into violence against women for it to be a problem. we know this because we’ve seen it before. sex work is degrading, dehumanizing, and exploitative, but banning it consistently makes it worse, not better, for the people most endangered by it.
further, paradoxically, denying access to porn puts women in more danger.
That’s… Part of the goal. Women “need to know their place” and all, per the GOP.
Does anyone know if something changed with PH in Texas? It used to require a VPN and had a notification of the new Texas age verification law, but now I’m back to being able to browse it without a VPN.
Nope, still blocked for me.
Conservatives love losing freedoms.
gotta buy me vpn stocks.
If I found myself in Florida, I’d pull out before I finish too.
