We Not Gonna Talk About Louisiana Requiring ID to View Online Porn?

[DDD Dad 14,643]

1 hour ago, YGIFS said:

Also, the reboot to "True Detective Season 1" seems lit as fuck.  Not that S.2 Vince Vaughn shit, I mean a direct sequel to S.1 with the Staties IT dept. tracking this shit down.  

 

[WBT 20,966]

As part of my relocation service for a 3-month assignment to Saudi, I was told to set up vpn service before going.  Guess we'll have to add Louisiana to that illustrious list.

[hayden_horn 11,402]

49 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Why is the government getting involved with enforcement here? The government going to start checking/keeping IDs at strip clubs on Bourbon Street, too? What about other sites like Reddit or Twitter?
 

Classic inventing a solution in search of a problem with a little QANON/pizzagate “Think of the children!!!” bullshit thrown in for good measure. 

there is a bigger game afoot. i don't have time to connect the dots for myself but this is part of local school board races, book bannings, curriculum fuckery and the like. 

it's the religious right trying to careen us towards hamdmaid tale areas of shithousery. 

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5 minutes ago, hayden_horn said:

there is a bigger game afoot. i don't have time to connect the dots for myself but this is part of local school board races, book bannings, curriculum fuckery and the like. 

it's the religious right trying to careen us towards hamdmaid tale areas of shithousery. 

It does really feel like that. A last gasp of trying to get their way as we become far more secular.  And they will have to go after the VPNs.  

And I really have no doubt that Texas will make a run at this.

Back in the early 2000s, when Howard Dean was ramping up his campaign and his campaign was having him court the techies, he gave an interview (I think on Slashdot, that was where I read it) where he mentioned that we should have card readers integrated with our computers, and we'd slide our government-issued IDs into those computers before we could start doing stuff online, and it was to cut down on scams, terrorism, kids accessing porn, etc..  Huge fucking backlash that happened so fast, he and his campaign dropped all mention of it.  

And here we are in 2023, and the Louisiana government is basically doing just that, only with porn.

[tx 3 putt 78,668]

15 minutes ago, WBT said:

As part of my relocation service for a 3-month assignment to Saudi, I was told to set up vpn service before going.  Guess we'll have to add Louisiana to that illustrious list.

did you lose a bet ?

[Mole 4,338]

Semi-hard question: how is 33% calculated? By usage? Total offering? Total memory used? Length of videos? I can think of about 50 ways to plug numbers in to calculate some percentage.

I’m no IT whiz, but it doesn’t seem like it’d hard for long to game the system to get that number to go down.

[Francisco 2.0 32,585]

23 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

And here we are in 2023, and the Louisiana government is basically doing just that, only with porn.

Porn today, liberal libraries that have books online that are banned within the state are next, along with any "woke" organizations that might foster some kind of thought.

Next up will be to go after telcoms, since they allow that shit to be carried over the tubes.  I don't expect that to get any traction, but it will be brought up. 

 

[High Plains Drifter 11,186]

4 minutes ago, Mole said:

Semi-hard question: how is 33% calculated? By usage? Total offering? Total memory used? Length of videos? I can think of about 50 ways to plug numbers in to calculate some percentage.

I’m no IT whiz, but it doesn’t seem like it’d hard for long to game the system to get that number to go down.

 

pixels

 

 

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1 minute ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Next up will be to go after telcoms, since they allow that shit to be carried over the tubes.  I don't expect that to get any traction, but it will be brought up. 

They have the legislators at the state and federal level bought off, which is why they are allowed to do dumb shit, divert grants/funds meant for things like rural internet access to cell phone towers instead (the rurals can use their cell phones for internet!), etc.

We will find out how much the porn industry learns to lobby a lot harder.

[Francisco 2.0 32,585]

12 minutes ago, High Plains Drifter said:

 

pixels

 

 

 

You know, if the porn industry were to just go back to SD for all of their production, and not this fancy ass 4K shit, it just might work.

Sidenote; porn was better before HD anyway.

[0xdeadbeef 1,699]

The text in the law is:

https://legis.la.gov/legis/ViewDocument.aspx?d=1289498

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§2800.28 D (9) "Substantial portion" means more than thirty-three and one-third percent 25 of total material on a website, which meets the definition of "material harmful to 26 minors" as defined by this Section.

It seems reasonable to declare "material" as an image.   

The smallest image file I know of is a 26 byte .gif.  A first year Comp Sci student could pick up a 10TB external USB disk from Best Buy and have it configured with about a billion image files by lunch time.

 Stupid Law is Stupid.

[Mdhorn 6,166]

13 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

By the way, if Louisiana gets away with this, you can't tell me Dan Patrick and Greg Abbott and Briscoe Cain and the other "Texas Freedom Caucus" yahoos won't try and push this through the Texas Legislature.

Then was this just an example of Ted Cruz researching for future Texas law purposes?: 

[Neonmoon 38,130]

3 hours ago, elfenix said:

not a big fan of handing my phone to a cop at all

I don’t care. (Although I am sure a scan situation could be invented). I’m under no illusion that I have privacy in this country, nor do I believe a little piece of plastic or lack thereof prevents the law from fucking me over. Sadly, the only thing stopping the law from abusing their power over me in the US is my white skin. 

[Kyrie Eleison 9,312]

[henrygandorf 29,225]

11 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

Besides the dumb theocracy law that is further proof the US is a shitshow, I am encouraged to see a digital ID being embraced by states. Physicals Wallets are no longer necessary except for drivers license. Once that gets fixed. Bye bye wallet. 

people still carry wallets?  what is this, 1986?

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1 hour ago, henrygandorf said:

people still carry wallets?  what is this, 1986?

So you don't have a bitchin' wallet like this?

 

[crash_davis 23,468]

Arkansas thinks this is a great idea. Fucking SEC states and their idiocy. Yes Texas and Oklahoma are included in that. 

 

https://www.thv11.com/article/news/local/proposed-arkansas-bill-digital-id-porn/91-59598af8-d81e-42c7-8414-d1b5ad40b6fd

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Two Arkansas senators have proposed a new bill that would require adults to present proper identification before viewing pornographic content in the state.

Senators Tyler Dees (R-Siloam Springs) and Jim Petty (R-Van Buren), have proposed the Protection of Minors from Distribution of Harmful Material Act, which would create a liability for the publication or distribution of material that is harmful to minors on the internet. 

The act would also require people to present reasonable age verification through the use of a "digitized identification card" which would use a data file and a state-approved application containing all the data elements on the front and back of a driver's license or ID.

Proposers of the bill believe that if passed it will help improve self-esteem, improve body image disorders, and decrease sexual activity at younger ages. 

The bill would enforce "damages" onto pornographic distributors and hold them accountable if they distribute the material to underage audiences. 

Senate Bill 66 defines "pornographic" material as any media that exploits, is devoted towards, or primarily consists of "offensive depictions." 

Some examples of "offensive depictions" include: 

Female breast /genitals

Touching or caressing of breasts or genitals

Actions such as sex or masturbation

Lawmakers consider media where nudity or sex is occurring to be pornographic if it "lacks literacy, artistic, political or scientific value" for minors (under 18).

[Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand 13,624]

So a Stop Christofascist Censorship banner on all porn.

Edited January 19, 2023 by Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand

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9 hours ago, crash_davis said:

Arkansas thinks this is a great idea. Fucking SEC states and their idiocy. Yes Texas and Oklahoma are included in that. 

4 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

So a Stop Christofascist Censorship banner on all porn.

Being pushed by a bunch of people who claim they want "small government" and freak out over the thought of national IDs that could be used to track you, but are more than happy to create a new bureaucracy that uses state IDs to track what websites you've visited. 

[Ghost of LL 15,698]

Don't mind me, just casually walking into @Brisketexan's office, grabbing his wallet off his desk, and taking a couple quick pictures of his DL.

[GenXer 3,426]

Edit

 

 

Edited January 19, 2023 by GenXer
Mclovin DL already in thread

[Pescado_Rojo 19,583]

Can't wait until Pornhub, XVideos, Reddit, OnlyFans, etc start posting the names and viewing history of the politicians that vote for this.  

[YGIFS 19,458]

What the fuck is

pornographic material of political value?  And where do I watch some?  

[Kel Varnsen 8,748]

First they came for my fisting videos...

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By the way, it's somehow still on the books, and Texas wants to enter the chat, and Republicans are working on solidifying their reputation as Big Government assholes who want to introduce even more government and control into our lives.

Age Verification Bills are Popping Up Across the Country – Action Center (freespeechcoalition.com)

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Since January 1, 2023 when Louisiana’s age verification law went into effect, over a dozen states have now introduced AVS measures.

Have introduced legislation virtually identical to Louisiana.

• Arkansas
• Virginia
• Florida
• South Dakota
• West Virginia
• Kansas
• Mississippi 

Have either introduced or plan to introduce other age-verification legislation.

• Oregon
• Texas
• South Carolina
• Minnesota
• Utah
• Oklahoma
• Missouri
• Arizona 

Republicans in Arizona are dumb enough to make it include Netflix, Hulu, HBO, etc.

GOP bill would require Arizonans to provide an ID to look at online porn (azmirror.com)

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A Republican bill would require Arizonans to submit a government-issued ID to a website operator before accessing “sexually explicit material” online, but the bill is written so broadly that critics say it could require the same of major streaming platforms like Netflix and Hulu. 

The proposed law would require that websites with a “substantial portion” of sexually explicit material verify the age of Arizona users by collecting a government-issued ID or digital ID card. The measure, Senate Bill 1503, is similar to a new law that just went into effect in Louisiana at the start of this year.

 

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On 1/18/2023 at 1:53 PM, crash_davis said:

Arkansas thinks this is a great idea. Fucking SEC states and their idiocy. Yes Texas and Oklahoma are included in that. 

Missed this originally, but yeah, it appears the SEC really wants this.

Fucking A, when I was a Republican, we had our share of assholes and authoritarian-types, but today's GOP has taken it to another level.  This is the kind of stuff A) they accused Democrats of wanting and B) that would be right at home in Putin's Russia.

[Grade of D as in David 13,255]

13 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

By the way, it's somehow still on the books, and Texas wants to enter the chat, and Republicans are working on solidifying their reputation as Big Government assholes who want to introduce even more government and control into our lives.

Age Verification Bills are Popping Up Across the Country – Action Center (freespeechcoalition.com)

Have introduced legislation virtually identical to Louisiana.

• Arkansas
• Virginia
• Florida
• South Dakota
• West Virginia
• Kansas
• Mississippi 

Have either introduced or plan to introduce other age-verification legislation.

• Oregon
• Texas
• South Carolina
• Minnesota
• Utah
• Oklahoma
• Missouri
• Arizona 

Republicans in Arizona are dumb enough to make it include Netflix, Hulu, HBO, etc.

GOP bill would require Arizonans to provide an ID to look at online porn (azmirror.com)

 

If this goes through I am going to feel really bad for @nowthis

[Bama Chick 28,596]

By the way, it's somehow still on the books, and Texas wants to enter the chat, and Republicans are working on solidifying their reputation as Big Government assholes who want to introduce even more government and control into our lives.
Age Verification Bills are Popping Up Across the Country – Action Center (freespeechcoalition.com)

Since January 1, 2023 when Louisiana’s age verification law went into effect, over a dozen states have now introduced AVS measures.

Have introduced legislation virtually identical to Louisiana.

• Arkansas
• Virginia
• Florida
• South Dakota
• West Virginia
• Kansas
• Mississippi 

Have either introduced or plan to introduce other age-verification legislation.

• Oregon
• Texas
• South Carolina
• Minnesota
• Utah
• Oklahoma
• Missouri
• Arizona 

Republicans in Arizona are dumb enough to make it include Netflix, Hulu, HBO, etc.
GOP bill would require Arizonans to provide an ID to look at online porn (azmirror.com)

A Republican bill would require Arizonans to submit a government-issued ID to a website operator before accessing “sexually explicit material” online, but the bill is written so broadly that critics say it could require the same of major streaming platforms like Netflix and Hulu. 
The proposed law would require that websites with a “substantial portion” of sexually explicit material verify the age of Arizona users by collecting a government-issued ID or digital ID card. The measure, Senate Bill 1503, is similar to a new law that just went into effect in Louisiana at the start of this year.

 

So all the SEC pervs are going to move here for their porn?

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Virginia, come on down!

https://www.pilotonline.com/2023/06/29/pornhub-blocks-access-to-virginia-users-in-response-to-new-age-verification-law/

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Virginians likely will be disappointed the next time they try to access Pornhub.

The popular pornography site has blocked users with Virginia-based IP addresses in response to the state legislature passing a law that requires users to submit government identification to verify their age before accessing adult content. The new law, passed in May, goes into effect Saturday.

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Users will be met with a message opposing the legislation, accompanied by a video featuring porn actress Cherie Deville reading it.

“As you may know, your elected officials in Virginia are requiring us to verify your age before allowing you access to our website,” the statement reads. “While safety and compliance are at the forefront of our mission, giving your ID card every time you want to visit an adult platform is not the most effective solution for protecting our users, and in fact, will put children and your privacy at risk.”

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The statement goes on to argue that the law doesn’t properly enforce the age verification requirement, meaning some platforms can choose whether to comply. Pornhub said the best solution to protect children is “to identify users by their device and allow access to age-restricted materials and websites based on that identification.”

“As we’ve seen in other states, [requiring ID] just drives traffic to sites with far fewer safety measures in place. Very few sites are able to compare to the robust Trust and Safety measures we currently have in place,” the statement continues. “To protect children and user privacy, any legislation must be enforced against all platforms offering adult content.”

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When asked ahead of signing the bill in May whether he was concerned about Pornhub making such a move, Gov. Glenn Youngkin told The Pilot that he would take the bill’s ramifications into account when making his decision.

“I believe that children should be protected from pornography and I want to make sure that we do that,” Youngkin said at the time.

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Virginia is the second state to get the cold shoulder from Pornhub. Utah passed a similar law in March, and the site blocked access to users in the state in the days before the law took effect in May.

Free speech advocates have come out against the legislation, arguing that personal data related to pornography usage could be vulnerable to hacks as a result.

 

[Guest]

Leave us the fuck alone... on multiple levels.   

You're not saving anyone...You're only exposing your own insecurities and politicizing them.

[Blotto 24,011]

It's the 21st century. It blows my mind there are so many Jesus freaks in this country that still believe their version of the great sky fairy wants this. Smooth brained fucking idiots. 

[tx 3 putt 78,668]

Who defines ‘porn’ ?

[naija 3,062]

someone with a financial interest in VPNs has to be behind this

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1 hour ago, slorch said:

Leave us the fuck alone... on multiple levels.   

You're not saving anyone...You're only exposing your own insecurities and politicizing them.

54 minutes ago, Blotto said:

It's the 21st century. It blows my mind there are so many Jesus freaks in this country that still believe their version of the great sky fairy wants this. Smooth brained fucking idiots. 

And we've got them in Texas, and they proposed similar laws, that adults had to provide digital government identification to porn sites to view porn, but thankfully it went nowhere (legislature was too busy finding other ways to fuck us).

40 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Who defines ‘porn’ ?

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2 minutes ago, naija said:

someone with a financial interest in VPNs has to be behind this

Or somebody who wants to build a database of people who are viewing online porn in their state.  What to do with that data - to be determined.

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, naija said:

someone with a financial interest in VPNs has to be behind this

There's always a financial play in this horseshit.

Spare me the fucking morality high horse.

( Not aimed at you, but rather the porn police)

 

[Neonmoon 38,130]

49 minutes ago, tx 3 putt said:

Who defines ‘porn’ ?

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2, 1

[WhatTheBuck 28,928]

1 hour ago, Blotto said:

It's the 21st century. It blows my mind there are so many Jesus freaks in this country that still believe their version of the great sky fairy wants this. Smooth brained fucking idiots. 

It’s no coincidence that the greatest demand for porn is in the Bible Belt. 

[cactusflinthead 27,627]

2 hours ago, slorch said:

Leave us the fuck alone... on multiple levels.   

You're not saving anyone...You're only exposing your own insecurities and politicizing them.

Then stop voting for them. Ever. For anything.

 

[dcbc 14,644]

On 1/9/2023 at 12:39 PM, 956 Worldwide said:

That’s the FEDERAL government. This is going to be done by the state of Louisiana’s finest IT people and contracting agents. So rest easy. 

 

 

On 1/9/2023 at 2:24 PM, atomheartbevo said:

 Huge fucking backlash that happened so fast, he and his campaign dropped all mention of it.  

 

 

And then he screamed.  It was a simpler time for political scandals.

 

On 1/9/2023 at 2:47 PM, Mole said:

Semi-hard question: how is 33% calculated? By usage? Total offering? Total memory used? Length of videos? I can think of about 50 ways to plug numbers in to calculate some percentage.

I’m no IT whiz, but it doesn’t seem like it’d hard for long to game the system to get that number to go down.

 

Gonna be a lot more "recipe"  and "how-to" sections on the pron sited in the near future.

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12 minutes ago, dcbc said:

Gonna be a lot more "recipe"  and "how-to" sections on the pron sited in the near future.

Copy off huge chunks of Wikipedia.

[Gil Bang 26,230]

I'm out here in California, and yeah, we have a homeless problem, but I'm beating my meat all day long to stepmother porn and nobody can stop me, nor do they want to.

EDIT:  I don't actually beat my meat to stepmother porn "all day", I was just trying to illustrate uh...you know...well.

 

Nevermind

Edited July 2, 2023 by Gil Bang

[Nice Guy Eddie 13,725]

5 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

There’s nothing worse than a parent of a young child and they decide they’re the arbiter of what is decent for the rest of us. And I agree that a parent should decide what their child sees or experiences but those decisions shouldn’t impact the rest of us.

Edited July 2, 2023 by Nice Guy Eddie

[StassneyHorn 6,766]

Lotta Republicans gonna be pissed when Sarah Salazar and Daisy Taylor don’t “pop” up tomorrow.

And me.

[Guest]

8 hours ago, cactusflinthead said:

Then stop voting for them. Ever. For anything.

 

SMDH.  As if there's another side...There's attempted social engineering going hard in the paint for everyone right now.  It'd be really fucking cool if we could just focus on gotdam schools and roads.

That ain't happening either.  I will tell you this, the 'vice squad' as I call the right, has already pushing me away.  I have traditionally voted for them as the cheaper criminal.  That's hardly true any more either.

[WhatTheBuck 28,928]

9 hours ago, Neonmoon said:

The opposition:

Since it’s the weekend.

A closer look at that warning label:

Here’s something a little more melodic from that album:

What’s new in Baltimore?

There was a mass shooting last night. 30 people shot, 2 dead, 3 others in critical condition. Is Congress ever going to hold hearings on the gun problem?

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/baltimore-police-scene-mass-shooting-incident-media-2023-07-02/

(That was a rhetorical question. We know the answer.)

[Underdog 29,161]

4 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

Lotta Republicans gonna be pissed when Sarah Salazar and Daisy Taylor don’t “pop” up tomorrow.

And me.

 

[elfenix 34,744]

i assume pornhub is going to give us a chonk of stats for before and after

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Mississippi, come on down

https://gizmodo.com/pornhub-cuts-off-access-in-mississippi-and-virginia-1850602485

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The popular porn site has already ixnayed services in Utah over similar age verification laws. Virginia’s and Mississippi’s laws require porn sites to verify users’ age beyond a simple checkmark of “Are You 18+?” Under these laws, users are supposed to provide porn sites with scans of government IDs. Pornhub has openly said this is a major privacy issue for both them and users. The site also complained about the states “not regulating the enforcement of these laws” which means “responsible platforms will follow the law, irresponsible platforms won’t.”