If only someone could invent a VPN. One of these days...
this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2025
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But how will the south watch all that transexual porn they love so much?
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I had no idea that US states could block websites at the state level
Of course they can, ineffectively, and sometimes legally. It depends on the details.
I suppose here the states will lose in court, but it takes time... 1A is on the people's side, and precedent is also on the people's side. But the Fifth Circuit Appeals Court is batshit crazy, so who knows.
They can't. The article title is misleading.
This is porn websites choosing to block users from certain states rather than jump though ID law hoops.
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I guess the South is going to have a harder time rising now.
Welp. back to working on them thar siblings and relatives then.
Picture conservative white southern men who never got their GED trying to frantically Google what a VPN is, because they're missing their interracial porn before the Klan meeting that night.
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lol .... as if .... I'm sure there is a boom in subscriptions for VPN services in the south at the same time .... especially for every political office holder at every level of government
Ha! You seem to be under the impression that the laws are enforced for them also.
"Laws for thee, not for me!"
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Can they access the hundred other porn sites?
Looks like the big-name ones are either complying with the ID law or self-blocking like Pornhub. Smaller ones are operating as normal for now.
Tfgames.site (not a commercial site, but a database of adult videogames involving physical transformations) stopped allowing access to IPs geolocated to at least some states due to similar laws, ID or no.
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I actually just checked after seeing this post, no ID requirement popping up in Tennessee for whatever reason. I also realized I don't believe I had ever typed pornhub.com into a browser before until now. If somehow i had ever been there it was from search engine results I guess, never knew they had a main page.
Thanks. It's interesting seeing them blocked like this, considering how influencial the porn industry was for decades.
~~(My spell check is failing me for influence al)~~
influential
Thaaank you. I had the i and a reversed
From the article:
As of today, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina join the list of 17 states that can’t access some of the most popular porn sites on the internet, because of regressive laws that claim to protect children but restrict adults’ use of the internet, instead.
Yes, I saw that. It doesn't change my question.
My interpretation is that they're targeting the major players for lawsuits and ignoring the small fish. I could be wrong though.
We need a modern day Larry Flynt.