Of course it's legal. It's just stupid.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2025
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I’m doing my part by buying pornographic magazines and distributing them at local schools. I tried handing out flash drives, but the kids had too much training against plugging in a drive of unknown origin to prevent against malware. Analog porn is also sorta retro, so that’s fun.
/it’s a joke, stupid
God damn it, you had me up until the end. I was rooting for you at first, but now I'm just disappointed.
youre supposed to buy smut and put it under a rock in a tree stump in the woods, as is traditional
Speaking of. Why aren’t you potheads flinging truckloads of seeds along the nation’s roads and highways?! We should be neck-deep in high-quality ditchweed at every corner by now!
And another thing! How come I can’t get no Tang around here?
Because it's not the 2000s anymore. Legal weed is already easily obtainable in over half the country, and no one wants to smoke ditchweed. We've all moved on to concentrates. Even if you still smoke buds, you can't even find seeds in the bag anymore. These days you have to go out of your way to obtain them, and nobody is going to bother with that.
There's also the fact that stoner culture is dead. People have finally come to the realization that it's possible to smoke weed without making it your entire personality. The whole stoner stereotype isn't really a thing anymore. We've moved onto other things.
Bruh. Harsh.
Huh? What was "harsh" about my comment? You asked a question—and as someone who smokes weed every day—I felt qualified to answer it, so I did. What is the issue? (edit: Is it because I speak in a straightforward, manner-of-fact way?)
Oh, sorry. Just riffing on the stoner thing. Nah, you’re good. Thanks for the added take.
I don't get it, but okay.
I digress; you're welcome.
I haven't seen a seed in like 15 years and I smoke all the time!
No shit. Well, I guess that would explain it then.
Asking the legitimate real questions
This could all be solved with some zero knowledge proof technology so they can just prove your age and gain absolutely no tracking capabilities, but of course that will never happen.
Please elaborate
Its a cryptographic way of verifying something without having to expose the information it's verifying.
Lets say you need to prove you're over the age of 18
You can have a digital ID that has your birthdate on it.
Through some fancy cryptographic stuff I can't explain, the website could challenge your ID to prove your age, and the ID could return a response that proves you are over 18, but it doesn't need to actually give your name or age in response, and it's response isn't something that can be linked back to your ID.
Now simply having an ID isn't necessarily enough, kids could just take someones ID, so it might need to have some biometic's added and be a small piece of hardware that has the digital ID, so when the website challenges the ID, you unlock the ID with your fingerprint, and now the website knows the owner of that ID is the user of the ID, and they are 18 or older.
For this to work though you'd need someone who has authority on your age to implement the digital ID properly, and then write the software that will validate things.
So you could go to the DMV as an example, they issue you a license while you're there, you authenticate the ID with your finger print (but they DMV doesn't get your fingerprint, it's just stored on the ID) and then the website can challenge the ID and get a response that verifies you're old enough, without verifying who you are, or your age.
Edit: just to add, and ID like this wouldn't be limited to online. You could go to the liquor store and validate without them having to see your ID which exposes where you live for example.
I see. Yeah I’ve thought about something like this where you go to a notary or something to register and then use biometrics. People still don’t like it. They love porn too much.
There's nothing to dislike about it though if it's done right. Everyone would just have the right ID, and there's nothing to worry about when verifying the age. The uses become much larger than just porn.
For sure. Try to suggest it to anybody on Lemmy though. They’ll downvote you to smithereens.
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I'm old enough to legally view any form of pornography that's legal to create.
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There is no legitimate government interest in monitoring my pornographic habits.
May they suffer the wrath of their porn-deprived populace.
So, keep up geoblocking the Idiot State, with a page listing all those politicians and judges who caused this.
A good idea in theory, but something tells me that somebody logging into PornHub isn't exactly going to be receptive to politics at that particular moment.
That's the point. Blam it right into their faces to see who cock-blocks them.
You might be surprised. There's some really gross right-wing power fantasy porn hitting front pages.
Time to start finding woods porn again. Maybe this time USB drives scattered in the underbrush.
Geocaching porn network?
GeoFappr?
Lol this is a terrible but hilarious idea. Public indecency rates are gonna explode
Honestly doesn't sound like a bad idea
Helps curb the sedentary lifestyle epidemic as well! I’m all for it. Think of the ~~senator’s~~ ~~yards~~ interesting natural locations where you could hide caches.
Maybe if you so-called prudish fucks ever had an ounce of self-control it wouldn't be exploding so much, would it?
It's just like how the places with the most anti-trans sentiment consume the most trans pornography. It's all about removing the temptation because they have zero self control. "I can't be trusted to not spend every waking moment jerking off because deep down I'm a filthy depraved fucking cretin, so I must take away joy from everyone else who might use pornography responsibly!"
Especially now, when Palantir is making a giant database on US citizens from Federal government data, why would anyone feel comfortable identifying themselves to a pornography site? To be on some list someday that will be used by the religious police to jail you for the crime of jerking off to the "wrong" thing? Give me a break.
On the other hand, jerk off as much as you want to. Jerking off doesn’t hurt anyone, go for it.
Sorry, didn't mean to imply it was a bad thing. It's only a bad thing when you want to limit others because of your own lack of self control as a means to control yourself.
Well if you do it too much, you can indeed hurt yourself.
Hell, one time I had been having so much sex so frequently that my dick literally got swollen from too much abuse. Kind of freaked me out at first.
Next it’s going to be attacks against VPNs.
Probably going to see an uprise in things like lorawan or consumer-owned mesh networks.
Most people can/t figure out how to change their password. Those technologies are going to have to get real easy real fast to get somewhere.
I mean “one button” easy.
Essentially a return of the rural barbed wire phone network.
Not connected to the larger internet, locally managed and controlled. I can even see pirates rolling out their own streaming services to people on the local mesh network.
This is really cool, thank you for posting it
We're a ways off from that, simply because VPNs have too much business utility.
But we're definitely moving in the direction of "Everyone who uses the internet has to show their ID first" as a means of tracking the bulk of retail web surfing.
I mean, they get your social when you purchase service.
Not if you're just renting a server in a foreign country with different privacy laws and rolling your own VPN.
Also some VPNs allow payment with cryptocurrency.
Mullvad, for instance, accepts Monero, Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, and Bitcoin Lightning.
I meant Internet service. Cox or Comcast or Verizon or whoever.
True, but if you use a VPN and don't use their DNS (and especially if you set up a recursive DNS server of your own) they have a lot less information about what you do online.
don't use their DNS
As long as you use encrypted DNS, like DoH (DNS over HTTPS). Regular DNS is unencrypted, so the ISP can trivially collect data even if you use a custom recursive server (either your own or a public one like Cloudflare, Quad9, etc).
Running a recursor on a VPS then querying it using DoH seems like a reasonable approach to me. I've got an AdGuard Home server on my home network that uses DoH for all upstream DNS queries, but I'm currently just using Quad9 rather than my own recursor.
So dumb.