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September 1st, 2023: Texans, Fire Up Your VPNs, or Present Your Government ID to View Porn Online (now at the Supreme Court)


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A lot of sites block non-US traffic as a defense against getting hacked.  If 99% of your visitors are in the US, it's an easy way to help stop people from trying to hack in to your shit.  It's not fool proof as the good hackers can get around it without too much difficulty, but it helps.

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I like Proton and use it on my PC and Phone. The app connects quickly and they also have a email service. It's HQed in Switzerland and the ownership is not afraid of giving certain entities the middle finger regarding, um.. pron browsing history. 

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12 minutes ago, kevwun said:

A lot of sites block non-US traffic as a defense against getting hacked.  If 99% of your visitors are in the US, it's an easy way to help stop people from trying to hack in to your shit.  It's not fool proof as the good hackers can get around it without too much difficulty, but it helps.

This was my basic assumption given my limited knowledge. They also want to track website/app behavior as I have a family member who lives in that world. Of course, banking entities aren't the only ones. 

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7 hours ago, kevwun said:

A lot of sites block non-US traffic as a defense against getting hacked.  If 99% of your visitors are in the US, it's an easy way to help stop people from trying to hack in to your shit.  It's not fool proof as the good hackers can get around it without too much difficulty, but it helps.

So...the hackers aren't using a VPN, too?

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On 4/15/2024 at 9:06 PM, tokamak said:

Anyone used Proton VPN?

 

On 4/16/2024 at 7:10 AM, Goofyboy said:


That’s what I’m currently using. It’s free, unless you want to pick a specific country.

 

On 4/16/2024 at 7:51 AM, BurntEyes said:

That's what I use. The pay to play version. It's fast, but there are a goodly number of web pages that kick back when in use. Banking is one of them. I've found if I switch to a US first link it works or short term turn it off. Happy to learn of work arounds others might know for this issue, since this now seems to be the VPN thread.

 

I use proton VPN. If you are hooked up through Poland or where ever, and that's not working because its not in the US, you can tell it to choose another ip. It'll randomly(?) pick another ip, and about half the time the ip is in the US. 

I went ahead and paid, gets me the VPN and email, with I think 10 different addresses, and enough storage for me. Because fuck google. 

 

 

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On 3/20/2024 at 6:52 PM, atomheartbevo said:

The Office of the Attorney General filed two civil lawsuits Tuesday afternoon in Travis County against the respective companies that own the websites xHamster and Chaturbate. Paxton said they’re not doing enough to stop those younger than 18 from looking at the adult content.

Chaturbate is paying Texas $675,000.  If you don’t use a VPN and want to visit thei site, enjoy visiting a third party and submitting a scan of your drivers license/state ID.

https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/Multi Media LLC Agreement.pdf

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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/05/supreme-court-lets-texas-keep-enforcing-age-verification-law-for-porn-sites/

Supreme Court decides not to block Texas law that age-gates porn websites. Court denies application for a stay but could still hear challenge to the law.

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Most of us will just use VPNs, but damn, a lot of Texans gonna hand over their personally identifying information (including driver's license info) to various companies, all the while not realizing that it will ultimately be hacked and sold off (if not sold off first).

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https://www.engadget.com/texas-age-verification-law-for-pornography-websites-is-going-to-the-supreme-court-233511418.html

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Texas will be the main battleground for a case about porn websites that is now headed to the Supreme Court. The Free Speech Coalition, a nonprofit group that represents the adult industry, petitioned the top court in April to review a state law that requires websites with explicit material to collect proof of users' ages. SCOTUS today agreed to take on the case challenging a previous ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit as a part of its next term beginning in October.

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Texas was one of many states over the last year to pass this type of age-verification legislation aimed at porn websites. While supporters of these bills have said they are intended to protect minors from seeing inappropriate content, their critics have called the laws an overreach that could create new privacy risks. In response to the laws, Pornhub ended its operation in those states, a move that attracted public attention to the situation.

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"While purportedly seeking to limit minors' access to online sexual content, the Act imposes significant burdens on adults' access to constitutionally protected expression," the FSC petition says. "Of central relevance here, it requires every user, including adults, to submit personally identifying information to access sensitive, intimate content over a medium — the internet — that poses unique security and privacy concerns."

A part of me feels bad for all of the boomers that gave up their IDs/drivers license to look at porn, because all that info is being sold off to somebody.

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https://www.engadget.com/texas-age-verification-law-for-pornography-websites-is-going-to-the-supreme-court-233511418.html
Texas will be the main battleground for a case about porn websites that is now headed to the Supreme Court. The Free Speech Coalition, a nonprofit group that represents the adult industry, petitioned the top court in April to review a state law that requires websites with explicit material to collect proof of users' ages. SCOTUS today agreed to take on the case challenging a previous ruling by the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit as a part of its next term beginning in October.
Texas was one of many states over the last year to pass this type of age-verification legislation aimed at porn websites. While supporters of these bills have said they are intended to protect minors from seeing inappropriate content, their critics have called the laws an overreach that could create new privacy risks. In response to the laws, Pornhub ended its operation in those states, a move that attracted public attention to the situation.
"While purportedly seeking to limit minors' access to online sexual content, the Act imposes significant burdens on adults' access to constitutionally protected expression," the FSC petition says. "Of central relevance here, it requires every user, including adults, to submit personally identifying information to access sensitive, intimate content over a medium — the internet — that poses unique security and privacy concerns."
A part of me feels bad for all of the boomers that gave up their IDs/drivers license to look at porn, because all that info is being sold off to somebody.

Solution: I just used your info.
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4 hours ago, Al Bundy's Napoleon Hand said:

I don't have a Twitter/X account, but isn't it supposedly chock full of porn now?

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3 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

The Gilead SCOTUS will find a way to rule that porn is actually illegal now

Four months out from an election?

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You gotta give Texas' Maverick/Cowboy mentality a lotta credit.  We pledged to get rid of pornography, child grooming, sex trafficking, rape, and molestation.  

And here we sit, #1 in pornography consumption, #1 in banned books while pastors and teachers mouth-fuck kids, #1 in the sex trade because we don't address the consumer just the enslaved, #1 in rape, #1 in untested rape kits, #1 in most pastor/priest/coach molestation of children, #1 in mass shooting deaths, #1 in domestic violence, #1 in child abuse.  But yeah...blocking a few adult content websites should cover it.  And we keep the devil's gambling outta our state because it's immoral.  Meanwhile, State of Texas runs the biggest gambling racket in the United States, the Texas Lottery and nobody knows where the money goes and the highest day of ticket sales is Sunday.  But at least there's not pornhub.  

"The Texas Miracle" is that this land of dipshits has managed to last this long...

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Folks in Nebraska are joining in on the fun, and Pornhub is blocking Nebraska IPs

Pornhub blocks access by Nebraska users as age verification law takes effect • Nebraska Examiner

At least people are starting to wake up to this being an attempt by the Powers That Be to pretend t get a handle on who is looking at porn.

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Folks in Nebraska are joining in on the fun, and Pornhub is blocking Nebraska IPs

Pornhub blocks access by Nebraska users as age verification law takes effect • Nebraska Examiner

At least people are starting to wake up to this being an attempt by the Powers That Be to pretend t get a handle on who is looking at porn.

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On 5/3/2024 at 2:23 AM, wood said:

That reminds me ... Why do dogs lick their balls?

Because they can.

That reminds me of this joke.
There's these two dudes,
and they see this dog licking its nads,
and so, uh, they say,
"Why does it do that?"
And then the one dude goes, "Uh, because he can."
And then he says,
"Well, maybe you oughta pet him first."

So--so why does he lick his nads then?

Because he can. Get it?

Not really. I mean, anybody can lick a dog's nads. So what?

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Project 2025 sees these state verification laws as a backdoor (*huh, huh, huhuhuhuhuh you said "backdoor") ban on porn, and they are starting with age verification and will eventually go after the porn companies on all kinds of stuff.

Spoilered if you're touchy about CR stuff.

Spoiler

 

 

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If you didn't watch the video the far-right christian nationalist dude drafting Presidential directives and legislation for the guy he hopes will be the next president, and acting 100% on his behalf, explains how "protect the eyes of the poor children" was a trojan horse, and the next step will be additional laws and prosecutions over supposed "human rights" abuses. Or, "we hope" as he says. 

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My elderly uncle who could never figure out how to turn on the VPN I installed for him maybe pleased and I won’t have to clean up his computer as much from going to the smaller shady sites.


https://www.chron.com/culture/article/texas-scotus-age-verification-law-20036407.php

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On Wednesday, the Supreme Court heard a case that could resolve the dispute between major porn sites and the state of Texas, though the court is unlikely to make anybody happy when it rules this summer. In questioning that was at times outright hostile to the porn industry, the justices struggled to find a happy medium between preserving adults' access to porn and protecting minors. 

Nielson didn't have a good answer. He tried to make a case that biometric scanning, one proposed way to verify age (and one endorsed by the age verification industry, which has submitted a brief supporting Texas), was not as burdensome to adults as showing a physical ID at a store. But when I show my ID to a bartender, he doesn't also take a photo of my face on his iPhone and upload it to the cloud. It's two different standards, and you could hear him sweating as Nielson's reliance on Ginsberg annoyed pretty much every single justice. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson was particularly incensed with Texas and repeatedly reminded Nielson that Ginsberg did not create a constitutional pass for age verification laws, only that it found that minors had no right to access content that adults may find obscene. 

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Only Alito seemed to agree with Texas' argument that the court should rule in favor of the law on a rational basis, the lowest form of scrutiny which only requires the government to demonstrate a "legitimate interest" in restricting a fundamental right. It's an extreme proposal that would have disastrous implications for free speech since rational basis is incredibly permissive. While somewhat sympathetic to Texas, Alito's colleagues still stopped short of his radical proposal. 

Barrett said she wanted to "take rational basis off the table," throwing cold water on Texas' argument and instead suggested "intermediate scrutiny," a weaker but still skeptical standard, to look at age verification laws. Jackson argued that if Alito's test was applied, the government could say adults must provide a signed statement from their parents before watching porn. Nobody was ready to destroy First Amendment protections for porn with Alito, but it was clear that a majority was interested in splitting the difference between very protective speech standards that exist now and flexible standards proposed by Texas. 

Who should apply that new standard was unclear. The justices have the option to send the case back to the lower court to apply a different standard,  which they seem inclined to do. 

A decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton is expected in early July when the court typically hands down opinions. No matter what the justices end up deciding, however, they showed that the future of online porn has probably changed forever.

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The article has all of the technical stuff and various comments which I left out here.

Surly law dogs, it almost sounds like the ID verification might get ditched, but not sure what they would replace it with to satisfy Texas.  Only dumbasses want to upload their government IDs online to view porn, and it’s only a matter of time until one of the databases gets Ashley Madisoned and we find out who all is looking at what porn sites,

I need to look around and see if VPNs came up.

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