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.”
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.
Classic Atlas shrugging moment.
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If only there was some other place to get porn.
Yeah but this is Texas. One of the largest consumers of porn by state. Pornhub is the 6th most visited site in the US, just one spot behind Amazon. I’m sure at least some Texas politicians have decades old accounts accounts with all their favorites videos and probably paid access to creators, etc. Sure they won’t be giving up their account username and telling everyone why they’re doing it, but this gives them an excuse to call out the bullshit overreach and taking of frozen peaches. They can lie and say their constituents are the ones calling and demanding action. Actually a pretty smart move by Pornhub.
Lotta lone wanks in the lone star tonight boyyy
Texas lives to use words like “freedom” and “liberty”, and make them synonomus with their values. Then they pass legislation to force women to give birth, and they ban porn.
Like… “y’all” really are fucking stupid down there (at least the conservatives.)
There was an article rating actual freedom in different states and they came in dead last.
That’s why they say “Don’t make fun of Texas, it’s not nice to pick on retards.”
I refuse to drive through Texas and I do not do layovers in Texas on the grounds that their supreme court supports road side cavity searches by law enforcement. Nothing Texas for me.
My guess is rape rate will increase instead
https://slate.com/culture/2006/10/proof-that-internet-porn-prevents-rape.html
Doed the article not link to the study?
If porn is the only thing stopping someone from raping another person, then their problems are a whole lot deeper than porn
Yes. But not the problems of the victim.
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
Thank you. This had to be said. Our culture is gravely ill…
I meant in the way that members of a society interact with each other and how negative and antisocial qualities are reaching mainstream promotion because it’s profitable, but amusing way to pare down 100% of human history into two of the bleakest articles on Wikipedia I guess lol.
Yes people can be awful. Chances are higher than zero that terrible traditions have been a thing in history. Nobody is surprised.
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?
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Showing once again the disconnect between lawmakers and the public they are meant to serve.
There isn’t just pornhub in Texas!
Texan here. Porn’s busted. Brb gotta go watch dune 2 with popcorn now.
Wack without rhythm.
But that won’t attract a worm!
Use VPN.
The cum must flow
Ask for the promotion bucket with extra butter
The meme: Oh noooo Texas. So I started VPNing…
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?
Don’t worry they’ll find a way to blame Biden.
Anything is possible when logic, facts, and reality don’t matter.
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.
I’m a woman in Texas and if this has anything positive to come out of it, I hope a lot of the men here who don’t care about women’s reproductive rights will finally wake up to the Christian Nationalism really taking hold here, realize it may impact them, and help to do something about it.
Porn reduces the incident of rape. Combine that with the inability to access abortion. This is going to get worse. If vulnerable people have the ability to leave, they should.
Sooooo all according to plan then right?
Yes, more naive teens with low social economic status they can coerce into fighting their wars
Unfortunately, vulnerable people tend not to have the ability to leave.
This all sucks, but to be realistic it’s probably not going to change anything for anybody. Pornhub is not the only porn site, there are more options than any human being could ever make use of out there, and plenty of sites will not recognize the laws of TX.
What realistically will happen is the porn consumers will go “oh no Pornhub is down, I’ll have to go to another site” and within 5 minutes they’ll be masturbating with porn from an unblocked site. For all we know, they might even visit lemmynsfw communities, which all do not give a fuck about these laws.
You underestimate the lengths people will go, in order to watch that perfect/favorite video that is now blocked. It’s why the porn industry makes so much money in the first place
My guess is rape rate will increase instead
https://slate.com/culture/2006/10/proof-that-internet-porn-prevents-rape.html
You keep commenting this, and yet your source doesn’t provide any evidence other than quotes…
I’m out at work but i believe its this
I’m with you, but I can’t imagine any other outcome than an increasingly large group of sexually-frustrated men taking this out on women / men / animals around them. Particularly as other porn sites follow suit.
What’s worse, I imagine this is either by design or a very welcome byproduct. In other words, one step closer to y’all qaeda.
The end goal is more babies. Unwanted, uneducated and poor babies. They’ll get there by any means possible.
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.
I’m sure that a national firewall is next. These right wing freedom humpers are deeply envious of totalitarian regimes.
Nah, the Sears catalog is about to come back in a BIG way in Texas.
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.
Came here to say this too. All they’re doing is pushing the users of those sites to less reputable sites
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.
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.
As a Texan, I’ve been using a VPN for about a decade now, so this doesn’t affect me in the slightest.
EDIT: Please don’t take this to mean that I don’t believe this is, or should be, the norm. Our state government has overstepped its bounds many times over, and the quality of life in this state has done nothing but go downhill since the Repuglicunts came into power almost 30 years ago. I’ve done nothing but vote for anyone but the incumbent right-wing fascists since I was old enough to vote.
Spoken like a true texan.
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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.
