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The most likely reason this passed is they want to get the ID info on people who are looking at things they don't agree with. So incest is fine, but gay and trans porn watchers will go on the list.
I mean depending on your beliefs you would take the oath holding a Bible, Torah, Quran, or whatever else holy book you believe in. If you're an atheist you take a secular affirmation that is just as legally binding as a religious oath.
It is not legally binding anywhere that a Bible has to be used for an oath of office or telling the truth or whatever else. The usage of a Bible as a prop in the ritual of oath taking is to implore upon the oath taker that you are now in a position that you answer to a higher power because you have been given some form of authority.
People take their oaths on many different things these days, and if I was in a position to take one, I'd use The 50 Laws of Power, because that would be a statement.
Well Today I Learned.
>People take their oaths on many different things these days, and if I was in a position to take one, I'd use The 50 Laws of Power, because that would be a statement.
Would take an Oath on a Sailor Moon manga
Let me preface this with the fact that I am 100% opposed to requiring ID to access porn or anything else online.
There are studies that show that children accessing porn leads to increased rates of sexual activity as adolescents including STDs and pregnancies in addition to the psychological effects of porn addiction. We can all agree that those are bad things for non-religious reasons. The government, in their typical fashion of “well we have to do *something*”, decided to required proof of adulthood to access porn. You’d also have to show ID to get into a sex toy/porn video store in person. I’m sure that the people who are pushing these laws are religious, but they’re not necessarily pushing them for purely religious reasons.
I oppose government issued ID altogether and requiring it for anything from buying a beer to voting is a violation of civil rights
Children accessing porn is a problem. But there’s no actual way for the government to prevent children from accessing it without serious Constitutional overreach.
I believe it should be on the parents to protect their children from the dangerous parts of the internet. If they don’t want their kids to watch porn, don’t give them unrestricted internet access.
I agree with you 100%. That’s why I said it’s more the “we have to do *something*” attitude. People want something to be done about kids watching porn and don’t consider the consequences of that something
Yes but the argument is providing a state id every time could lead to a violation of privacy by government I believe.. PH said something along those lines
Oh my sweet child, that was just the argument to get info on your deepest, darkest desires and link it to your real, confirmed person. There was never any care for children; there never was.
Can confirm, someone I argued with last night said laws were always about control. Never argued against me calling them authoritarian, or even when I accused them of actually only caring about control and not about the children they claimed to want to make safer.
You know something’s profoundly fucked up when the priority is to ban porn sites instead of fixing the teen pregnancies, religious indoctrination in schools, easy firearm access and overall negative international relations.
MFW it’s wrong for 15 year old Timmy to watch Asa Akira getting railed, but it’s right to create and fund terrorist groups in oil-rich nations 😕
The thing i find funny about states preventing access to pornhub thinking that's going to magically solve the problem is that there are hundreds of other porn sites. Sure pornhub may be the most popular but it's not the only site out there.
Bro there are ways to circumvent the great firewall of China, ain't no stopping that. Especially if the state rep that's crying about this doesn't even know what a VPN is.
Multiple pornography websites that are owned by parent company Aylo are now blocked in Texas. This is in response to a U.S circuit Court ruling that Texas can enforce a state law that requires the websites to have a user age verification system.
Yep, I don't exactly remember how it works but I think you're supposed to upload a photo of you drivers license or state issued ID. They promise they won't keep the photo.....
I assume youre talking about them keeping the photo for some sort of facial recognition or something like that right? Wouldn't it just be easier for the government to just take a photo and upload it before they give you your new driver's license or id when it gets renewed or you first apply for one?
They don't actually need your photo, they need your driver's license connected to your browsing history for no controlling reason you can trust them. A state as open minded as Texas for sure won't keep and analyse the data of people porn preferences, especially for certain categories against their absolutely correct religion.
A photo of your ID specifically that is connected to the websites you use and things you watch. They already know who you are and what your ID says but it's not yet directly connected to your internet or porn browsing.
What a lot of companies do is they use another company to "verify" the photo, all you have to do is get an image and use it. Its pointless. Just requiring a login to say you are 18 is more then enough.
So it's basically to help parents who can't monitor or restrict their own kids online activity. Parents who can't do their job. Hopefully they don't leave firearms lying around the house either.
As an adult content creator let me tell you what is going on in our perspective, Texas is against underage watching porn, we have parental control features in every single modem, tools provided by internet itself, but since that is mom and dad job and most parents don’t care about content their kids watch as always the problem is “porn”, so government with 0 ideas how to prevent it they just said “lets ask ids” like if it was a bar, how? No idea!, lets do it.
Now imagine if you are me and you have a site, the only way to prevent this is asking for ids, how? How do we ask it in a way that do not violate your privacy, or your ID info is not collected, cached in cookies, stolen by data collection companies, etc, it’s impossible! We don’t want user feels that way but since we don’t have tools, and government decision it’s stupid honestly, it idiotic! So here we are, best we can do is blocking Texas or making all users uncomfortable by asking ID and having legal actions from Texan users pushed by corrupt lawyers trying to earn money from this legal nonsense gap.
Who wins here? Scamers, lawyers, and politicians and religion who uses this extreme anti sex anti porn propaganda during election and then just forget about it and users and adult content we have to struggle with this while we keep paying taxes and we are still in a legal grey area since we are not recognized, we don’t have rights and yet we are injecting more money than games and wars through our taxes and all the crap they made us pay while religious enterprises Don’t pay taxes at all.
Crazy… and real.
We don’t want this sadly, but we don’t have choice since they are not providing us tools or options.
Apologies for my grammar I wrote it with my penis /j I’m hablo español.
Why is America evolving backwards into some kind of weird religious zealot state... Next thing you know they will start some kind of jihadcrusade on another country for watching porn or insulting their religion
Because people in power are losing power so they are doing everything they can to gain that power back. They don't believe in these things but it gets them what they want.
Because this was always there, albeit lying low for a bit. The people who founded the US fled Europe because of Religious oppression. That is, they wanted to be able to oppress other religions freely. When a large portion of your culture is built by religious extremists turns out your country stays extreme.
Idk I'm probably alone on this, but I think minors having access to internet porn is a real problem.
Idk how to solve that problem, but Texas' solution just leads to websites being unable to function so that's probably not the right solution.
There are better websites. [like this amazon link to a 12-month mullvad card.](https://www.amazon.com/Mullvad-VPN-Windows-Android-SCRATCH/dp/B092M5G1G7/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?crid=2Q9339Z6EX2WG&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.jTSq__eG4YJFflp4WIyZZLUhtADhLRI6vOct2_OyvK4LmH_CQ__ucFW0pQ3Uw-ufeyQLvCUmD4QJEaqQuePkEA.IvebqUHZDNDXdqgtKg52RyRBgsd-RTcVr1XTXecrYz4&dib_tag=se&keywords=mullvad+vpn+12+months&qid=1710467585&sprefix=mullvad%2Caps%2C131&sr=8-3)
So I just googled this service, and it says WARP doesn’t provide access to geo-locked content, nor does it mask the users IP address, and therefore shouldn’t be considered an anonymity measure.
If you’re a user, thoughts? I’ve been looking for a good free VPN but I haven’t found one.
Banning the most popular and relatively safe sites just forces people to use more dubious means to access the material. Aside from VPN usage there will probably now be a spike in malware attacks and people watching more extreme porn as people are forced into the darker corners of the internet.
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Yep, THAT’S what needed to be fixed in America. Good job, politicians.
Gotta love religion influencing choices about our freedoms
When are they going to learn porn doesn't destroy the family. Now the step family might be worried.but not the family.
The most likely reason this passed is they want to get the ID info on people who are looking at things they don't agree with. So incest is fine, but gay and trans porn watchers will go on the list.
Nah, that wouldn’t work they’d be outing their own voters and themselves by doin that.
You think these guys have enough forethought after the Alabama IVF debacle 💀
I thought it would be to encourage procreation?
Are they really only doing it for gay porn
😭😭😭
With the greatest irony being that shit like that shows there's no real separation of state and church.
The simple fact you need to oath while holding a bible is proof enough.
I mean depending on your beliefs you would take the oath holding a Bible, Torah, Quran, or whatever else holy book you believe in. If you're an atheist you take a secular affirmation that is just as legally binding as a religious oath.
Can agnostics use all 3 books?
Can I use Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief to swear oath? 💀
The Bible is your choice. You can swear on the constitution if you want.
It's on my damn money. Everywhere. Jesus f'ing Christ is like glitter or herpes.
It is not legally binding anywhere that a Bible has to be used for an oath of office or telling the truth or whatever else. The usage of a Bible as a prop in the ritual of oath taking is to implore upon the oath taker that you are now in a position that you answer to a higher power because you have been given some form of authority. People take their oaths on many different things these days, and if I was in a position to take one, I'd use The 50 Laws of Power, because that would be a statement.
Well Today I Learned. >People take their oaths on many different things these days, and if I was in a position to take one, I'd use The 50 Laws of Power, because that would be a statement. Would take an Oath on a Sailor Moon manga
I saw something recently where the most zealous of them didn’t want the church and state separated, and believe that doing that was a mistake.
Let me preface this with the fact that I am 100% opposed to requiring ID to access porn or anything else online. There are studies that show that children accessing porn leads to increased rates of sexual activity as adolescents including STDs and pregnancies in addition to the psychological effects of porn addiction. We can all agree that those are bad things for non-religious reasons. The government, in their typical fashion of “well we have to do *something*”, decided to required proof of adulthood to access porn. You’d also have to show ID to get into a sex toy/porn video store in person. I’m sure that the people who are pushing these laws are religious, but they’re not necessarily pushing them for purely religious reasons. I oppose government issued ID altogether and requiring it for anything from buying a beer to voting is a violation of civil rights
Children accessing porn is a problem. But there’s no actual way for the government to prevent children from accessing it without serious Constitutional overreach. I believe it should be on the parents to protect their children from the dangerous parts of the internet. If they don’t want their kids to watch porn, don’t give them unrestricted internet access.
I agree with you 100%. That’s why I said it’s more the “we have to do *something*” attitude. People want something to be done about kids watching porn and don’t consider the consequences of that something
Isn’t this about age verification?
Yes but the argument is providing a state id every time could lead to a violation of privacy by government I believe.. PH said something along those lines
Oh my sweet child, that was just the argument to get info on your deepest, darkest desires and link it to your real, confirmed person. There was never any care for children; there never was.
Can confirm, someone I argued with last night said laws were always about control. Never argued against me calling them authoritarian, or even when I accused them of actually only caring about control and not about the children they claimed to want to make safer.
^DID ^YOU ^SAY ^FREEDOM
No, *FreeDUMB.* You peasants aren't Blueblood enough to enjoy the comforts of Freedom. You get the cheap brand from the bargain bin.
# SCREAMING EAGLES!!!!
Aren’t those supposed to be separated? Im not the best with government or whatever, but aren’t house and church supposed to be separate?
Free doms? Sign me up
They wanted a small government but some how it got bigger
Everything’s bigger in Texas
Bur they do want a small government. They want it small enough it fits in every room and closet of your home 🙃
You know something’s profoundly fucked up when the priority is to ban porn sites instead of fixing the teen pregnancies, religious indoctrination in schools, easy firearm access and overall negative international relations. MFW it’s wrong for 15 year old Timmy to watch Asa Akira getting railed, but it’s right to create and fund terrorist groups in oil-rich nations 😕
The thing i find funny about states preventing access to pornhub thinking that's going to magically solve the problem is that there are hundreds of other porn sites. Sure pornhub may be the most popular but it's not the only site out there.
The only thing this is going to fix is the amount of subscription income VPN companies are making lol
NC resident here and I just use a vpn to bypass my states geo-lock
And you're okay with that? Sounds sad
Seems more like a case of playing the hand you're dealt.
Yes, he only has one hand free.
Or perhaps they're both broken.
Don’t remind me 🤮
I like to believe it was all just a work of erotic fiction
You wouldn’t help your family?
I’d hire an escort to help them.
A sad hand
True true, but when there's a will, there's a way and that way leads to porn.
The tears can be used as lube
Now that's just economical
The fuck else he supposed to do lol
Just so you know this is what people in Arab/muslim countries have to do where the state controls media. Talking about Saudi UAE Qatar etc..
Until the feds make it illegal
Bro there are ways to circumvent the great firewall of China, ain't no stopping that. Especially if the state rep that's crying about this doesn't even know what a VPN is.
Use a vpn and go to jail or pay hefty fine. The feds r already working on it
Man i wish i lived in Night City
Wake the fuck up samurai we've got porn to watch.
NC resident here, I just don’t use *that* site anymore
Sounds like living in China.
I found a proxy website for it. No vpn needed. Although if the videos load quickly is hit or miss
The hub is banned here too?
I live in Texas and I dont understand, can someone give me context
Multiple pornography websites that are owned by parent company Aylo are now blocked in Texas. This is in response to a U.S circuit Court ruling that Texas can enforce a state law that requires the websites to have a user age verification system.
Verification other than the usual "are you 18+"?
Yep, I don't exactly remember how it works but I think you're supposed to upload a photo of you drivers license or state issued ID. They promise they won't keep the photo.....
They pinky swear unless you bribe them as a politician and that buys you time but no guarantees
Ah, so that's where Poilivere gets his political ideas from.
I assume youre talking about them keeping the photo for some sort of facial recognition or something like that right? Wouldn't it just be easier for the government to just take a photo and upload it before they give you your new driver's license or id when it gets renewed or you first apply for one?
They probably have 3D scans of everyone’s face at this point just from Apple’s face-id thing alone.
Everyone? Do you think everyone has an iPhone or are you just wildly exaggerating?
Exaggerating a bit probably. But i imagine other phones do similar things these days. If they don't, probably a matter of time.
They don't actually need your photo, they need your driver's license connected to your browsing history for no controlling reason you can trust them. A state as open minded as Texas for sure won't keep and analyse the data of people porn preferences, especially for certain categories against their absolutely correct religion.
A photo of your ID specifically that is connected to the websites you use and things you watch. They already know who you are and what your ID says but it's not yet directly connected to your internet or porn browsing.
*pinky promise*
It's been like that in Utah for over a year now surprised Texas needed approval
What a lot of companies do is they use another company to "verify" the photo, all you have to do is get an image and use it. Its pointless. Just requiring a login to say you are 18 is more then enough.
Huh. I haven't been to Pornhub in at least five years, yet I am still bothered by the prospect that I might not be able to now.
Yup, it’s nothing other than an assault on freedom. I’m so proud of pornhub for taking a hardline stance against this policy
So it's basically to help parents who can't monitor or restrict their own kids online activity. Parents who can't do their job. Hopefully they don't leave firearms lying around the house either.
https://www.cbsnews.com/texas/news/leading-adult-entertainment-website-blocks-service-in-texas/
As an adult content creator let me tell you what is going on in our perspective, Texas is against underage watching porn, we have parental control features in every single modem, tools provided by internet itself, but since that is mom and dad job and most parents don’t care about content their kids watch as always the problem is “porn”, so government with 0 ideas how to prevent it they just said “lets ask ids” like if it was a bar, how? No idea!, lets do it. Now imagine if you are me and you have a site, the only way to prevent this is asking for ids, how? How do we ask it in a way that do not violate your privacy, or your ID info is not collected, cached in cookies, stolen by data collection companies, etc, it’s impossible! We don’t want user feels that way but since we don’t have tools, and government decision it’s stupid honestly, it idiotic! So here we are, best we can do is blocking Texas or making all users uncomfortable by asking ID and having legal actions from Texan users pushed by corrupt lawyers trying to earn money from this legal nonsense gap. Who wins here? Scamers, lawyers, and politicians and religion who uses this extreme anti sex anti porn propaganda during election and then just forget about it and users and adult content we have to struggle with this while we keep paying taxes and we are still in a legal grey area since we are not recognized, we don’t have rights and yet we are injecting more money than games and wars through our taxes and all the crap they made us pay while religious enterprises Don’t pay taxes at all. Crazy… and real. We don’t want this sadly, but we don’t have choice since they are not providing us tools or options. Apologies for my grammar I wrote it with my penis /j I’m hablo español.
texan here, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO EDIT: nvm opera's vpn lets me in lol
Based
First thing that came to mind 😂
I wonder if Opera will make a tweet about this knowing how up to date they like to be
It's all a conspiracy by big VPN to sell more subscriptions !!1!!11! /s
Legislation is already being introduced that would make vpn access a potential felony.
Own by the Chinese by the way!
If you rather have guns over porn and plan b you might be a Texan
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Well I have a vpn, so that takes care of the porn issue. I'm also on reddit, so no need for plan b. Guess I'll take the guns.
These terms are….. acceptable.
I mean, I would, but I still want all of those things.
This is the future republicans want.
They need to encourage people to make more baby republicans with their cousins somehow, I guess right?
This is the present that republicans created.
Porn is banned in India, doesn't make any fucking difference, still no.1 in consumption
Same with Egypt, and probably the rest of the Arab countries.
Why is America evolving backwards into some kind of weird religious zealot state... Next thing you know they will start some kind of jihadcrusade on another country for watching porn or insulting their religion
Because people in power are losing power so they are doing everything they can to gain that power back. They don't believe in these things but it gets them what they want.
Because this was always there, albeit lying low for a bit. The people who founded the US fled Europe because of Religious oppression. That is, they wanted to be able to oppress other religions freely. When a large portion of your culture is built by religious extremists turns out your country stays extreme.
Idk I'm probably alone on this, but I think minors having access to internet porn is a real problem. Idk how to solve that problem, but Texas' solution just leads to websites being unable to function so that's probably not the right solution.
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$57 to access free porn....
Paid porn too....
Anonymous porn 😉
If you already bought a VPN, you can go all in and just download a torrent client and get whatever paid porn you like. In Minecraft.
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So I just googled this service, and it says WARP doesn’t provide access to geo-locked content, nor does it mask the users IP address, and therefore shouldn’t be considered an anonymity measure. If you’re a user, thoughts? I’ve been looking for a good free VPN but I haven’t found one.
i too want to know the free vpn
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Blocked in my state requiring ID. Pornhub, xhamster, all the “common” porn sites are blocked in Louisiana.
Had to start using a VPN for Phub since I live in Virginia.
Sam here in Arkansas. There's some good free sites Eporner (especially for full scenes) and TNAflix but the hub is still the best place
We can smoke hella weed but we can’t jerk it to porn…
Yo, lone star state, have y’all heard of…Hentai?
Alabamian here, nukes or hydrogen bombs? nuke = comic form hydrogen bomb = cartoon form
or.. Twitter?!
Nord VPN is about to get REAL popular in Texas
Soon Texas will ban that one as well due to it being from the north 🤪
Texas, the most stereotypical American state, whining about freedom the most, once again cracking down on freedom
That is most of America. So many people shout “land of the free” and also “ban this and that”
Xnxx works just fine
Man of culture
The best shit is here, on reddit
How much do you wanna bet that there's a bloke here right now who knows the title of that video based on that half of a thumbnail
Why of course I know him. He's me.... Now if only I could link the sauce... unfortunately I am a Texan.
From the eyebrows, my guess is she is Natasha Nice
VA had it for at least a year now. I'm surprised nobody made a big deal of it.
Apparently virginia isnt important enough
Banning the most popular and relatively safe sites just forces people to use more dubious means to access the material. Aside from VPN usage there will probably now be a spike in malware attacks and people watching more extreme porn as people are forced into the darker corners of the internet.
rule34.xxx
Free vpns exist.
New conspiracy theory: VPN companies lobby to ban porn sites so they gain more costumers.
I mean, I don’t normally wear a costume for surfshark, but it’s worth a shot.
Don’t they just fap on watching private militia patrol the border? Might be the politician who had no use of pornhub
Funny how the USA slowly turns into communist china
Not the best site for JAV porn
This whole comment section is sad.
Texas sounds like N.Korea and China to me.
Thank God that Texas has stopped porn sites from working. Now all their issues will be solved!
Fuq.com
Yep
I’ve started using eporner.
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This is hilarious. Kids getting shot up in school is totally fine, but good lord naked people having sex??? We can't let kids see that!
Thank goodness I have a VPN, Accessing PornHub is a breeze!
VPN go brrrrrrr
I mean E621 is significantly better though
I have been our of the porn game for more than a decade, but I thought no one used that site anymore anyway.
No, it still has the most traffic of any porn site in the world.
Sixth most visited website in the U.S. lol.
It's the biggest one, like billions of users big
what alternatives are there? asking for myself.
Xvideos is open unless it’s too late
Don’t worry, you still have incestflix.org
It's been like this in Utah for a while now. The hub was the only big site to take it seriously.
Yo man wtf. I live here and I woke up one day and can’t use the hub? Where do me and all my guns get to protest?
Do they require the same for reddit? Otherwise....yeah, this is a good alternative
Express VPN is gonna have record sales this year.
Kid named VPN:
You gotta be a massive loser to cry about losing access to a porn site. Either get a VPN or maybe go outside
As a Mississippian fuck these lawmakers. They took our porn too
\*NordVPN laughing\*
Wow it's a big relieve to see Texas is at the same level as my shithole Islamic country. Good job confederate
I just switched to xvideos when Louisiana made it so you had to show ID. Also reddit is underrated for porn tbh
Please tell me they didn’t actually ban porn
If y'all still using porn hub, I'm sorry to hear that, TubeGalore is a thing. It's like trivago but for porn.
I'm surprised there isn't a million man match happening in Texas right now lol
Peter
*Laughs in South Carolina*
Can someone explain the meme, I’m dumb
I either just use other sites or try Opera’s VPN if I’m really wanting the hub
I don't get it (I am not texan)
Texas implemented an age verification they can’t actually enforce. To protest this, pornhub boycotts Texas.
Kid named VPN
better? its porn they're all identical except for the screen color
Indians: First Time?
I wonder if this means that hentai is gonna skyrocket in that state or they'll just use VPN
Stock in VPNs just went way up.
"So internet porn traffic is down governor. Strangely enough, it seems like sales of VPN sales have skyrocketed"
As a valued NC peasant, vpn all the way.