A little while ago I saw a map of the states where they colored in how likely a state is to pass anti-trans legislation. It was identical to Pornhubs map of how likely people in a state are to search for trans-porn. To the surprise of no one.
this post was submitted on 21 Jun 2024
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Pffftt... projection, schmojection.
Amiright guys?....
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There's a phrase that used to be used to defend gun rights, 'If you outlaw guns only outlaws will have guns.'
If you make porn illegal only illegal porn will exist. They're not eliminating porn they're just shifting the source of porn to websites that don't care about compliance with US laws.
the only way to stop a bad guy with porn is with a good guy with porn.
This is 100% true. Its like with weed. People will consume it. They don't care if its illegal. Illegal weed only causes the black market to control everything and fuck up consumers.
Marijuana is much easier to control as it is physical and lingers in the body. It is physical vs digital.
You can copy and download data all day long. It is the same reason why banning encryption will not make encryption go away overnight.
Yeah, but the principle is literally the same.
It literally isn't. Weed leaves a trace everywhere it goes as it is a physical substance
I definitely leave a trace everywhere after watching porn
Wet wipes are helpful if you'd rather not.
Ironically, yes!
I would be ENTIRELY unsuprised if we found out these state governments were full of people who bought a lot of VPN company stocks just before the news hit. Particularly Utah. It's practically free money.
If you remove the porn from the internet, there will be one site left, and it will be called Bring Back The Porn.
Shit shit shit, this one's really rolling around. Dr cox? It feels Monty Python, but I'm hearing it in John C McGinley's over affected JD drawl.
It is Dr Cox
It is Dr Cox.
The porn will never even go away. Pornhub might be popular but it's a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the porn out there.
If you removed the porn from the internet, the very next day a hundred million people will all create their own new internet and finally have a noble purpose for their saved stashes.
Pornhub prepares to be accessed via VPN from five more states rather than check IDs
In all honesty i can only hope that this forces some people to increase their tech-savviness.
I miss the Internet when you needed to know wtf you were doing. Now everything is geared for easy, addictive consumption
I keep telling older people who seek IT advice from me that knowing how your computer works is like knowing how your car works. And then I tell them that they're the morons who think the engine is magic, and never change their oil until the car's in the shop with issues and the mechanic finds what looks like mud in the engine.
Boomers hear that message, it turns out.
I read somewhere that a lot of people don't even go to websites anymore, they just use apps for their social media and have no idea how to enter a web address or URL.
I feel like the last of a dying breed of mighty wizards because I can configure windows and know how to manage files.
It won't. The average person in America wants the fastest, easiest consumable distraction or pleasure reward and takes no time to learn new things unless it's dangled in front of them in bite-sized, easy-to-follow tutorials with quest-markers and all kinds of sparkles and chimes when they do something correctly.
They will go to some really terrible alternative that costs money. There are a hundred thousand porn sites right now hoping that they become the next big thing from all this.
Fuck them states.
Pornhub will lose more traffic to complying with the nanny bullshit than blocking entire states.
Pornhub's audience is international, and in some countries they are far, far less backwards and socially repressed and Pornhub and similar companies get revenue without any controversy or danger of consequences.
They do NOT need these shitty states that are just going to continue to pearl-clutch and scream about "morality" as if humans aren't sexual creatures.
Your mom is a sexual creature.
Just as the state legislatures wanted. This lets them ban pornhub without having to fight with their citizens about banning pornhub.
#1 VPN states. State Tracking will never be popular outside the religious legislative class, everyone else knows it's an invasion of privacy.
Microsoft security leaks put paid to any hope of security/privacy on govt. databases.
What's the over/under for state legislators on pornsites?
State Tracking will never be popular outside the religious legislative class, everyone else knows it’s an invasion of privacy.
Why won't those people vote against the religious legislative class? Are they outnumbered?
At a guess, gerrymandering. Absurdly defined district maps are used to split up areas where the opposition is strong and drown them with surrounding friendly voters.
Why won't those people vote against the religious legislative class? Are they outnumbered?
For a lot of people religion is like a salad bar or buffet, they pick and choose the parts they like and ignore the ones they don't. That seems to extend towards their politicians, be my brand of religion and policy and I'll let you do almost anything because at least you aren't that other person.
That thumbnail is more like arse technica
If you live in a conservative run state, watch what they do, in Georgia on the final day of legislation they do "sine die" which we sometimes call sign or die day where they just push through a ton of shit with little or no going over it before hand, they passed one of these social media ID laws that targets porn too, and it went through without pretty much anybody knowing about it from what I can tell.
What kind of database of depravity to use against you are these people building.
Pornhub should block more states.
Right!? Make this the election that was decided by porn!
May every porn site block every republican-lead district this election season with a full-page message stating that this is a direct result of republican policy. Then link to voting resources.
Rape rates declined following the code spread availability of internet porn, I wonder if they will go higher in the stupid states (I live in one). Obviously, VPNs neuter the impact of the laws some, but not everyone is savvy enough to use them. I feel bad for adolescent boys.
the point of this was moronic to begin with 5 years ago during the first porn purge
"zomg there might be human traffickers and p3doph1les uploading porn!"---okay, don't you want them to do that? Like, doesn't it just give you more evidence and a stronger trail if the traffickers have an easily accessible outlet to satisfy their ego urges? Wouldn't it enable you to catch some traffickers that would've otherwise been missed, just by looking at their account info, upload IP, etc?
This is like banning chip sales to China except sex crime version