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Signed into law last month, effective September 1st.  We join Louisiana, Mississippi, Virginia, and Utah in requiring state-issued ID to look at porn online (or we pay a third-party service for "verification).

https://legiscan.com/TX/text/HB1181/id/2819916

Sec. 129B.002.  PUBLICATION OF MATERIAL HARMFUL TO MINORS.

 (a)  A commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes  or distributes material on an Internet website, including a social  media platform, more than one-third of which is sexual material  harmful to minors, shall use reasonable age verification methods as  described by Section 129B.003 to verify that an individual  attempting to access the material is 18 years of age or older.

 (b)  A commercial entity that performs the age verification required by Subsection (a) or a third party that performs the age verification required by Subsection (a) may not retain any

 identifying information of the individual.

 Sec. 129B.003.  REASONABLE AGE VERIFICATION METHODS.

(a)  In this section, "digital identification" means information stored on a digital network that may be accessed by a commercial entity and that serves as proof of the identity of an individual.

(b)  A commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material on an Internet website or a third party that performs age verification under this chapter shall require an individual to:

              (1)  provide digital identification; or

              (2)  comply with a commercial age verification system that verifies age using:

                    (A)  government-issued identification; or

                    (B)  a commercially reasonable method that relies  on public or private transactional data to verify the age of an  individual.

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Oh, and we get these nifty exclaimers on porn sites, and the legislature made sure that they are in "14-point font or larger"

TEXAS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES WARNING: Pornography is potentially biologically addictive, is proven to harm human brain development, desensitizes brain reward circuits, increases conditioned responses, and weakens brain function.

TEXAS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES WARNING: Exposure to this content is associated with low self-esteem and body image, eating disorders, impaired brain development, and other emotional and mental illnesses.

TEXAS HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES WARNING: Pornography increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, and child pornography.

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It also requires the following to be displayed in the footer of every adult website "in 14-point font or larger":

U.S. SUBSTANCE ABUSE AND MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION HELPLINE:
1-800-662-HELP (4357)
THIS HELPLINE IS A FREE, CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION SERVICE (IN ENGLISH OR SPANISH) OPEN 24 HOURS PER DAY, FOR INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILY MEMBERS FACING MENTAL HEALTH OR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDERS. THE SERVICE PROVIDES REFERRAL TO LOCAL TREATMENT FACILITIES, SUPPORT GROUPS, AND COMMUNITY-BASED ORGANIZATIONS.

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Registry for guns? No fucking way. Registry for viewing porn? Best idea since sliced bread.

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This thread took an odd turn.  But I'm not going to kink shame you.

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Does treefiddy need to come with an Illinois VPN now? Can make that happen with very little effort. 

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Most of us should know how to work a VPN, since we are college football fans that sometimes need to use VPNs for whatever reason, but here's a few threads

https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/topic/716-vpn-recommendations/

If you need to learn how to use them:

https://www.surlyhorns.com/board/topic/10645-learn-me-on-vpn-services-like-im-5/

edit: VPNs will probably be needed anyways, since there's a decent chance that a lot of porn sites like PornHub will straight up block the entire state rather than deal with this shit, as they've blocked other states.  Then again, Texas is a huge market, so who knows.

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4 minutes ago, Kel Varnsen said:

How long before our women have to wear hajibs?

Hajib porn is a thing. Don't just me.

I'm looking forward to the inevitable data breach of these porn companies and/or the third party companies doing the verification.  It'll be better than the Ashley Madison hack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach

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Following the hack, communities of internet vigilantes began combing through to find famous individuals, whom they planned to publicly humiliate. France24 reported that 1,200 Saudi Arabian '.sa' email addresses were in the leaked database, which were further extortionable due to the fact that adultery is punishable via death in Saudi Arabia. Several thousand U.S. .mil and .gov email addresses were registered on the site.

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In the days following the breach, extortionists began targeting people whose details were included in the leak, attempting to scam over US$200 worth of Bitcoins from them. One company started offering a "search engine" where people could type email addresses of colleagues or their spouse into the website, and if the email address was on the database leak, then the company would send them letters threatening that their details were to be exposed unless they paid money to the company.

 

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21 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Pornography is potentially biologically addictive, is proven to harm human brain development, desensitizes brain reward circuits, increases conditioned responses, and weakens brain function.

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1 hour ago, atomheartbevo said:

Hajib porn is a thing. Don't just me.

I'm looking forward to the inevitable data breach of these porn companies and/or the third party companies doing the verification.  It'll be better than the Ashley Madison hack.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Madison_data_breach

 

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25 minutes ago, HRSchenker said:

I knew my stash of 1980s Playboy mags would eventually come in handy, so to speak

I was in Half-Price Books  yesterday, and they had a locked case of old Playboys, including this one, which I actually had (stolen) as a young lad, and instantly I wanted to buy it, but the wife and kids were in tow...

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7 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I was in Half-Price Books  yesterday, and they had a locked case of old Playboys, including this one, which I actually had (stolen) as a young lad, and instantly I wanted to buy it, but the wife and kids were in tow...

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Sir, you do not buy it for pictures. You buy it for the articles. And Comics..... Always the comics. 

 

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50 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

I was in Half-Price Books  yesterday, and they had a locked case of old Playboys, including this one, which I actually had (stolen) as a young lad, and instantly I wanted to buy it, but the wife and kids were in tow...

Pretty sure half-price books is open 7 days a week. Dont miss this opportunity to learn how to give the IRS a run for their money. Apparently Willie doesnt read the articles either. 

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6 minutes ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Só how does the affect sites like Reddit? It’s not a porn site by definition, but there are thousands of porn subreddits. Or so I have heard.

I was wondering about Twitter, if it's still around in September?   But reading the statute, I guess it will depend if they cross that 1/3 threshold.  Reddit probably has the means to do the math to figure out the pron ratio.  Twitter probably fired the person who does the math.

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2 hours ago, Patricio Swayze said:

Só how does the affect sites like Reddit? It’s not a porn site by definition, but there are thousands of porn subreddits. Or so I have heard.

Reddit is probably okay since they should get past the 30% rule.

5 hours ago, BearSchlong said:

The latter. I didn’t investigate thoroughly but it does involve sending copies of identification cards.

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No way in hell I'm ever sending ID to porn sites.

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22 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Pornography is potentially biologically addictive, is proven to harm human brain development, desensitizes brain reward circuits, increases conditioned responses, and weakens brain function.

So does having a penis.

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19 minutes ago, Pam Cummings said:

So weird that none of the people who want less government seem to be against this. Oh wait no its not.

Measures to "protect" kids from seeing boobs or checking out a library book that mentions that Texas seceded from the union to perpetuate enslavement of black people; A metric shitton of them.

Measures to protect kids from having their bodies shredded by high-velocity chunks of lead: negative number, because don't you infringe on muh freedoms!

We are in a breakneck race to be the dumbest fucking state.  I mean....we're doing shit that puts us in a small class of states that includes Louisiana and Mississippi.  We are on the short bus of states.

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23 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

 Pornography is potentially biologically addictive, is proven to harm human brain development, desensitizes brain reward circuits, increases conditioned responses, and weakens brain function.

You would think our state leaders would want to make access easier since they seem to think is turns you into a republican

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When I was 12 in 1989, I learned about sex from Playboy or Hustler.  Maybe I caught Hardbodies on TV.  Maybe I got really lucky and got the see the pizza guy fuck some hot chick on VHS.

Nowadays a kid goes to pornhub and the most popular videos are all borderline incest or violence.  Usually abusing the shit out of a woman.  Its not people "trying to see boobs."  Its fucked up.   I don't think adults should be restricted from watching whatever they want to watch - and making them log in is a way of shaming them - but damn I don't want my kids learning from that shit and thinking that's normal sex.

Yeah, yeah, up to the parent to teach their kids about sex.  Whatever.  No one in history has really learned about sex from their parents.

I'm sure this isn't the answer.  I'm sure this is easily worked around.  But I wish there was an answer.

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3 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

When I was 12 in 1989, I learned about sex from Playboy or Hustler.  Maybe I caught Hardbodies on TV.  Maybe I got really lucky and got the see the pizza guy fuck some hot chick on VHS.

Nowadays a kid goes to pornhub and the most popular videos are all borderline incest or violence.  Usually abusing the shit out of a woman.  Its not people "trying to see boobs."  Its fucked up.   I don't think adults should be restricted from watching whatever they want to watch - and making them log in is a way of shaming them - but damn I don't want my kids learning from that shit and thinking that's normal sex.

Yeah, yeah, up to the parent to teach their kids about sex.  Whatever.  No one in history has really learned about sex from their parents.

I'm sure this isn't the answer.  I'm sure this is easily worked around.  But I wish there was an answer.

What does that have to do with me having to show my fucking ID to view porn?

I'm not a fan of having my liberties restricted because people are afraid of sex or shitty parents. Kids are getting shot in school and dying from fentanyl ODs but God forbid they see two adults have sex.

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What does that have to do with me having to show my fucking ID to view porn?

I'm not a fan of having my liberties restricted because people are afraid of sex or shitty parents. Kids are getting shot in school and dying from fentanyl ODs but God forbid they see two adults have sex.

Porn has always had age restrictions.  Even movies at your local AMC theatre have age restrictions.  Those liberties have always been restricted.

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2 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

Porn has always had age restrictions.  Even movies at your local AMC theatre have age restrictions.  Those liberties have always been restricted.

Movie ratings (PG, R, NC17) for those shown at AMC are suggested but not regulated, enforced or mandated by law 

Access to a porno film shop or theatre though I think probably is 

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4 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

Porn has always had age restrictions.  Even movies at your local AMC theatre have age restrictions.  Those liberties have always been restricted.

Does AMC collect and retain a copy of your ID that can then later be audited by the state? Asking because I don't see movies at AMC and have never been asked to show my ID at the theater my wife and I go to several times a month.

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15 minutes ago, Don Johnson said:

When I was 12 in 1989, I learned about sex from Playboy or Hustler.  Maybe I caught Hardbodies on TV.  Maybe I got really lucky and got the see the pizza guy fuck some hot chick on VHS.

Nowadays a kid goes to pornhub and the most popular videos are all borderline incest or violence.  Usually abusing the shit out of a woman.  Its not people "trying to see boobs."  Its fucked up.   I don't think adults should be restricted from watching whatever they want to watch - and making them log in is a way of shaming them - but damn I don't want my kids learning from that shit and thinking that's normal sex.

Yeah, yeah, up to the parent to teach their kids about sex.  Whatever.  No one in history has really learned about sex from their parents.

I'm sure this isn't the answer.  I'm sure this is easily worked around.  But I wish there was an answer.

I don't disagree with this post.  I do think that the nature and ubiquity of modern porn has given young men some fucked up ideas about sex.  What Texas and Mississippi are doing isn't the answer....and I don't think there is an answer.

14 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

The answer is probably more guns.

It always is.  Doesn't even matter what the question is, that's the answer.  Murica.

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