September 1st: Texans, Fire Up Your VPNs, or Present Your Government-Issued ID to View Porn Online

[Schulz2.0 29,280]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

[Beau Vine 55,863]

On 7/5/2023 at 3:19 PM, Surly Bevo said:

Why would they want to make it tougher for these little ladies to pull themselves up by their bootstraps

Phase 2 of the plan is starting up the Texas version of the Magdalene Laundries. 

[Beau Vine 55,863]

Man, I've got to get out of this fucking state, pronto.

[956 Worldwide 35,592]

On 7/6/2023 at 6:42 PM, Macklemore said:

With the legislation Congress passed that led to the shut down of Backpage and craiglist ads, and no more Houston Press hard copy ads, finding a whore has become a mess with scammers far exceeding legitimate providers. It’s no longer an enjoyable hobby as it once was. I predict the quality of porn to suffer if PornHub blocking access to entire states becomes the norm.

[Sgt Hulk 14,432]

Nowthis is mad AF

[dcbc 14,644]

7 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Man, I've got to get out of this fucking state, pronto.

 

[Dnaguy 12,627]

On 7/5/2023 at 11:33 PM, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Following the direction of Louisiana or Mississippi can’t be the right move in any scenario.

Oklahoma and Texas to Join SEC and Add to a Juggernaut - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

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1 hour ago, Sgt Hulk said:

Nowthis is mad AF

Nah, he enjoys being reamed out. 

[wildcat09 29,579]

I like how it's just so expected from him that Icono just openly admitting that he still tries to find whores but it's no longer an enjoyable hobby barely even raises eyebrows. 

[HornOnTheBayou 9,062]

Wait, I thought he was the whore and he's having trouble marketing his services.

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1 hour ago, HornOnTheBayou said:

Wait, I thought he was the whore and he's having trouble marketing his services.

Don't confuse the avatar with the person.

[South Austin 53,222]

On 7/4/2023 at 4:38 PM, Blotto said:

If there is one industry that you can expect to take the law seriously, its the online porn industry. 

I'm considering taking a job at the Texas Attorney General's office to help with . . . you know . . . enforcement and all.

[NeverMarryAStripper 22,294]

I'm sure a few months after it goes into effect, there will be a hack that releases a complete list of every Texan that presented their ID to view porn.  I bet every state politician will be on the list.

[Js1 87,179]

3 minutes ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

I'm sure a few months after it goes into effect, there will be a hack that releases a complete list of every Texan that presented their ID to view porn.  I bet every state politician will be on the list.

And a good 5-10% of them will have accessed gay porn. I’m sure of that

['stache 22,131]

On 7/5/2023 at 4:22 PM, sidis said:

i think all these stepsons, stepmoms, stepsisters, stepdaughters, stepdaughter's friends shoudl all have to show id to prove they are step-related.

that has been the most fucking bizarre development in the world of porn over the last ten years that i will never understand.

It's gross and I don't get it, but I'm more disturbed that any girl over 20 is now labelled a "MILF." Like that term has no meaning anymore, they just slap it on whenever they like, as long as the girl is over 20 I guess. And yes, I know these girls can and often do have kids well before 20, but my point stands, as traditionally understood, a Milf should be at least over 40.

Edited July 10, 2023 by 'stache

[burntorangebongos 10,826]

On 7/6/2023 at 7:54 AM, Don Johnson said:

On a different note, seems like pornhub's strategy here is incredibly dumb from a business perspective.  Completely cutting off a large block of customers.

What's their end goal here?  

They get VPNs and access their site?

[South Austin 53,222]

18 minutes ago, Js1 said:

And a good 5-10% of them will have accessed gay porn. I’m sure of that

Seems low.

[Beau Vine 55,863]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

And a good 5-10% of them will have accessed gay porn. I’m sure of that

I'd like to bet the over, please.

[Js1 87,179]

1 hour ago, South Austin said:

Seems low.

 

2 minutes ago, Beau Vine said:

I'd like to bet the over, please.

Depends. Maybe 5-10% might access gay porn but I’d bet the over on how many are going to be accessing men with trans women porn. 

[Pig Bellmont 8,885]

1 hour ago, Js1 said:

 

Depends. Maybe 5-10% might access gay porn but I’d bet the over on how many are going to be accessing men with trans women porn. 

[Deej 77,813]

3 hours ago, Js1 said:

And a good 5-10% of them will have accessed gay porn. I’m sure of that

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1 hour ago, Js1 said:

 but I’d bet the over on how many are going to be accessing men with trans women porn. 

Would they know the difference?

 

Edited July 10, 2023 by atomheartbevo

[Goredho 17,652]

So how does this work for search engines?  You can still go to google, search for ass, go the images or videos results and see some shit to fap with.  Does Google have to start policing that?

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47 minutes ago, Goredho said:

So how does this work for search engines?  You can still go to google, search for ass, go the images or videos results and see some shit to fap with.  Does Google have to start policing that?

Majority of their content is not porn, so it’s not an issue.

[Goredho 17,652]

57 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Majority of their content is not porn, so it’s not an issue.

But in terms of protecting children from accessing pr0n, they a search and click away?  I guess if they can enforce the block of content from the site that does have a majority pr0n content on the click through.

14 year old me would have been intrepid enough to fap to thumbnail gifs.

Edited July 11, 2023 by Goredho

[Captainant 28,534]

2 minutes ago, Goredho said:

But in terms of protecting children from accessing pr0n, they a search and click away?  I guess if they can enforce the block of content from the site that does have a majority pr0n content on the click through.

14 year old me would have been intrepid enough to tap to thumbnail gifs.

Here's the rub: the people who passed this bill don't give a single fuck about protecting children. They just needed a pretense to pass legislation to let them turn the state against websites they don't like and snoop into their users personal information. Same deal for the similarly positioned social media law that was also passed

[Goredho 17,652]

2 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Here's the rub: the people who passed this bill don't give a single fuck about protecting children. They just needed a pretense to pass legislation to let them turn the state against websites they don't like and snoop into their users personal information. Same deal for the similarly positioned social media law that was also passed

Yeah, I get that.  I should have put protecting children from accessing pr0n in quotes.

[WhatTheBuck 28,929]

40 minutes ago, Goredho said:

But in terms of protecting children from accessing pr0n, they a search and click away?  I guess if they can enforce the block of content from the site that does have a majority pr0n content on the click through.

14 year old me would have been intrepid enough to fap to thumbnail gifs.

Google blurs the thumbnails in the search results now. 

[Horn Dog 10,158]

2 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Google blurs the thumbnails in the search results now. 

14yr old me was fapping to scrambled CineMax images so blurred thumbnails would be like armature hour. 

[WhatTheBuck 28,929]

2 minutes ago, Horn Dog said:

14yr old me was fapping to scrambled CineMax images so blurred thumbnails would be like armature hour. 

Knock yourself out.

[dcbc 14,644]

54 minutes ago, Captainant said:

Here's the rub

[crash_davis 23,470]

2 hours ago, Goredho said:

So how does this work for search engines?  You can still go to google, search for ass, go the images or videos results and see some shit to fap with.  Does Google have to start policing that?

Amateur. Professional perverts know to use Yandex for NSFW, torrent, and other shit that Google is forced to filter.

[crash_davis 23,470]

Idiot motherfuckers of a certain political spectrum were revolting daily when they had to wear masks during the peak of Covid. Gubment is restricting mah civil liberties!

I am seeing that they are equally pissed about this government action. 

[Goredho 17,652]

1 hour ago, crash_davis said:

Idiot motherfuckers of a certain political spectrum were revolting daily when they had to wear masks during the peak of Covid. Gubment is restricting mah civil liberties!

I am seeing that they are equally pissed about this government action. 

Yeah, government acting as a man in the middle gateway between you and information seems like a milestone towards a dystopian future.  I realize they’ve probably been snooping all along, but restricting access seems brand new?

[crash_davis 23,470]

11 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Yeah, government acting as a man in the middle gateway between you and information seems like a milestone towards a dystopian future.  I realize they’ve probably been snooping all along, but restricting access seems brand new?

it's all for the kids. We can restrict access to porn to save them (and kittens) but we can't restrict access to guns to save them from being slaughtered in schools.

Please vote for me!

[Captainant 28,534]

11 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Yeah, government acting as a man in the middle gateway between you and information seems like a milestone towards a dystopian future.  I realize they’ve probably been snooping all along, but restricting access seems brand new?

It's not restricting access - it's requiring personal identification and being stored in a database. You know, that thing the gun nuts always complain about being an infringement of their 2A rights? So weird that porn is so dangerous you need to be on a registry if you're looking at it, but guns are hunky dory

[Goredho 17,652]

1 minute ago, Captainant said:

It's not restricting access - it's requiring personal identification and being stored in a database. You know, that thing the gun nuts always complain about being an infringement of their 2A rights? So weird that porn is so dangerous you need to be on a registry if you're looking at it, but guns are hunky dory

Is the database maintained by the state/government or the business purveying porn?

[956 Worldwide 35,592]

7 minutes ago, Goredho said:

Is the database maintained by the state/government or the business purveying porn?

“Hand over your identifying data and information about your fetishes to this private business that doesn’t want it but has to collect it because otherwise we shut them down.” 

Edited July 11, 2023 by 956 Worldwide

[dcbc 14,644]

15 minutes ago, 956 Worldwide said:

“Hand over your identifying data and information about your fetishes to this private business that doesn’t want it but has to collect it because otherwise we shut them down.” 

 

And prove compliance by handing the information over to the government.

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4 hours ago, Goredho said:

Yeah, government acting as a man in the middle gateway between you and information seems like a milestone towards a dystopian future.  I realize they’ve probably been snooping all along, but restricting access seems brand new?

The feds are another story, but the state (of Texas) hasn't been snooping, at least not like this.  This is completely new territory, both creating the means to try and see who is accessing porn sites, and trying to block it if you refuse to identify yourself.

3 hours ago, Goredho said:

Is the database maintained by the state/government or the business purveying porn?

Well, you see this goes into effect on September 1st, so Texas still has almost 60 days to figure it out.   

Texas does have a digital identification process called Texas by Texas (TxT), so I'm guessing they are busy putting together the infrastructure/APIs/whatever for porn sites to access it.

In Louisiana, there's a couple of ways, but one of them is that the state setup a "digital wallet" (which I guess mirrors our Texas by Texas thing) and so when you go to a porn site, it asks for information, and you put the information in, and it hits up the state's "digital wallet" to see if you are old enough to access the porn site. 

There are some commercial third-party verification databases if you don't want the state knowing, and you present/verify your ID with them, but then who are they selling their data to?  The state?  Is the state going to leave that information alone?  

Edited July 11, 2023 by atomheartbevo

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Because websites found in violation of the law will be given fines/penalties, I'm assuming somebody working for the state will spend their days trying to find websites in violation of the law while picking up a paycheck to do it.

 

[South Austin 53,222]

4 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Because websites found in violation of the law will be given fines/penalties, I'm assuming somebody working for the state will spend their days trying to find websites in violation of the law while picking up a paycheck to do it.

[NeverMarryAStripper 22,294]

6 hours ago, crash_davis said:

it's all for the kids. We can restrict access to porn to save them (and kittens) but we can't restrict access to guns to save them from being slaughtered in schools.

Please vote for me!

I’d like them to show me the porn  video that killed 60 people in less than an hour

[Schulz2.0 29,280]

1 hour ago, NeverMarryAStripper said:

I’d like them to show me the porn  video that killed 60 people in less than an hour

I see you have high end snuff film tastes.

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4 hours ago, South Austin said:

You jest, but if they aren't actively seeking out such porn sites that aren't doing verification, or if they are verifying porns sites that are reported by people, then it's a toothless law.

The State of Texas is going to pay somebody to look at porn.

And I'm sure there will be plenty of citizens doing their own research to report porn websites to the State of Texas.  I know one or two that I could picture doing that, and I'm going to mention to them that every time they report such a site, they themselves will probably end up in a database for visiting said site.

Edited July 12, 2023 by atomheartbevo

[Evil Bill Obrien 3,510]

10 hours ago, WhatTheBuck said:

Knock yourself out.

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21 minutes ago, Evil Bill Obrien said:

[wood 11,764]

Got damn. This state is just getting more difficult to live in by the day. JFC. FML.

[Beau Vine 55,863]

On 7/11/2023 at 9:31 AM, WhatTheBuck said:

Knock yourself out.

Easy.  Now try this:

Edited August 3, 2023 by Beau Vine

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2 hours ago, Beau Vine said:

Easy.  Now try this: