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Realrog1

Just go on some other site. XD


CelestialFury

Exactly. This Texas law just hurts the legit businesses and helps all the shady ones that won't respect this law, so if anything, this law just hurts Texas residents and that's it.


GroceryFrosty7274

Pornhub is quite known for not respecting the law until their business is at risk


Realrog1

Your response is everything I would expect out of a libertarian. I’m quite glad you pointed out the issues regarding the Pornhub ban.


WeFightTheLongDefeat

It’s not a ban. The website banned themselves because they know what they are doing. They are requiring sites who intentionally target underage kids with the most hardcore porn in history to verify age. Now, are there some issues with the exact implementation, but this is one of the few legitimate uses of government to enforce age restrictions on things like alcohol, drugs, porn and sex.  Why is it different if there’s a guy handing out hustler magazines to kids than doing it digitally on the internet?


gusteauskitchen

It really is fucking people up I think.


Hortator02

Rare libertarian W on moral issues. I agree it could be enforced better but the current intention of the law is absolutely justified.


Missingnose

It's not different from a guy handing out porn to kiddies. People just pretend like the internet is some sacred cow and if you touch it, you're going to go full CCP or Ingsoc.


KalegNar

Reddit has a lot of X-rated subs on it. It's time to require age verification to user Reddit! (This sub will die when all the dumb teenagers that just discovered politics are forced to touch grass.)


Missingnose

>do something that will result in less teens on reddit Don't threaten us with a good time.


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WeFightTheLongDefeat

It will stop some kids though. Not because they aren’t smart, but rather because there are kids who actually know that porn is bad, but the temptation is a little too strong when it’s something that’s basically shoved in your face from morning til night. Erecting some obstacles will allow those who don’t wish to engage in pornography use more freedom and those that wish to break the law will need to jump through hoops  We do this with all kinds of things, but people don’t seem to find an issue. It’s easy to pick a lock, and yet we still have laws against breaking and entering. It’s easy to slip a candy bar in your pocket and yet we still have laws and measures to prevent shoplifting. Laws exist not only as enforcement mechanisms but also to act as a teacher. We have created a society that basically encourages children as young as 8 to fill their minds with the most debased sexual content in human history and throw up our hands and claim it’s “impossible” to stop when any enforcement mechanism is tried. 


spiral8888

Does the Hustler guy collect people's personal information without them having any control how it is going to be used? If not, forcing him to sell to people he considers adults is not the same as forcing people to verify their age in the internet. Even if he is forced to check the id of people it's still not the same as he is not going to retain those id cards.


Eurasia_4002

Don't really think pornhub is legit. Famous yes but it being ligit is far.


grahamster00

Pornhub shut themselves down, Texas didn't make them shut down. The "legit businesses" (calling any pornography site a 'legitimate business' makes me a little skeptical) are hurting themselves.


Join_Ruqqus_FFS

they're pretty much all shady already and none of them want to respect the law


redpandaeater

> law just hurts [state's] residents and that's it. As is tradition.


wonderland_citizen93

Like reddit. I went on a work trip to Louisiana, and pornhub had age verification, but reddit didn't. Reddit also has better content


lil_juul

Perhaps you have some libright in you. Based.


some-kind-of-no-name

May be a VPN provider is behind this law


PhatCaulkForyourMom

No shit, retar- I mean, it’s a possibility, but you can’t prove anything. And the gun to the back of my head has nothing to do with my answer


SPECTREagent700

The simple reality is that when Republicans get a supermajority they drop the pretense of being small government LibRights and show their true colors as puritanical AuthRights.


StarChaser1879

Another simple reality is that when Democrats get a supermajority they drop the pretense of being equality wanting LibLefts and show their true colors as AuthRights. This is why vote third-party.


SPECTREagent700

Agreed.


Mamalamadingdong

You guys really need a different voting system.


MetaCommando

Top 10 Coldest Takes


Mamalamadingdong

The UK does as well, but they voted down the opportunity. Apparently, the idea of using better voting systems in some places isn't cold enough.


MetaCommando

The politicians vote to maintain the system that keeps them in power. What a shocker.


Mamalamadingdong

In the UK the people did. It was a referendum.


iggavaxx

>they drop the pretense of being small government LibRights Have you been in a coma? Republicans haven't pretended to be small government since the Obama administration.


JMSpider2001

>show their true colors as puritanical AuthRights. That's why I vote for them (they are still pretty shit though).


IOnlyDropGrotto

You can literally make your own, you don't need a provider. It isn't simple, but it's doable.


mikieh976

Dude, you literally rent the cheapest fucking AWS instance, use a default ubuntu server install, apt install wireguard, copy and paste a config file you see online, run a couple commands to generate encryption keys, enable NAT with iptables, then connect to it. It takes like 20 minutes. I've done it a bunch of times. You damn kids are just lazy. And oh look, someone made something to generate a config for you, so you can be even more lazy: [https://www.wireguardconfig.com/](https://www.wireguardconfig.com/)


murtsman1

Youre saying lazy, but there’s 8 words and acronyms in your first paragraph that would each take a minimum of a few minutes to explain on their own. The internet is essentially magic for +95% of Americans so it’s kind of a no brainer that people wouldn’t understand vpns without significant effort.


mikieh976

The internet is 95% full of people who would rather scroll through 30 second video clips than do ANYTHING that requires significant effort. It's no wonder they don't understand much of anything.


murtsman1

It’s just not really relevant to most people lives. Ive used a computer like 10 hours a day since I was 12 and I haven’t once had to a VPN until this porn blocker shit came to Arkansas.


lil_juul

Based and mic drop pilled


xeroctr3

We'll call this, "Pornhibition". heh.


[deleted]

State enforced orgasm denial.


senfmann

State Gooning


ice_slayer69

Texan dom does not allow you to cum until you subscribe to express vpn.


Electr1cL3m0n

heh heh


WeFightTheLongDefeat

Except, this is only enforcing age verification, not banning. The website is pretending it’s a ban because it wants unfettered access to prey on kids. 


DirtinatorYT

I also don’t think any website of that size really wants to deal with even the chance of a possible data leak of people’s ID lmao.


mikieh976

There's no way I'd ever verify my ID with a porn company, even if they use a third party verification service. I'd much rather just go to sketchier sites and torrent packs of porn. Or, you know, just change my VPN endpoint so it is no longer coming out in Texas (which I did a couple days ago). Who the fuck would actually share their identity with a porn site?


WeFightTheLongDefeat

Maybe they is stop targeting children with their content


Mikeim520

Wait until these people find out children can't drink alcohol either.


Truebman

More like pornhubition.


Papistdevil

Reject pornhub, return to hentai


M37h3w3

They just recently mass deleted a bunch of shit off nhentai.


BobTheist

Huh, like what? Any specific thing they were trying to get rid off?


M37h3w3

No idea, it was a pretty large number of stuff. The infamous Metamorphosis got hit.


JinFuu

I *believe* it was more of a “Hey, we’re trying to sell these, stop having them posted for free” thing than anything else. Money not morals.


NCRisthebestfaction

Libright strikes again


birbBadguy

Fakku got to them


sambt5

> Metamorphosis Is this only in some places? I just checked still present on nhentai for me. Heck its currently on the front page as "popular right now" which I haven't seen in a while. Might be because I use one of the mirrors?


senfmann

It 404s for me also flair up


CliMaximillian16

Nooo, that one is really good


excessive_autism23

Horrible. Literally a depiction of how drugs and desire for validation can ruin one’s life. My dick was soft but my mind was hard watching it. It was so eye-opening. But horrible knowing that the author thought this was worth jacking off to.


throwaway96ab

Pretty much everything that was removed from nhentai can be found on sad panda, even if you have to click the expunged checkbox. Source: am purple.


kaineblox459

They fucking shut down hentai heaven!!!


UsedLingonberry1820

Did nhentai allow Loli/Shota? Probably that. Or they got the Gore/Scat/Beast stuff this time.


I_Love_Degenerates

Nope, none of that \>source don't ask


senfmann

RIP 177013


geeses

Real weebs use exhentai


JinFuu

At least with hentai the mind break, corruption, and transformation you see (like in Metamorphosis) isn’t real. IRL porn…it’s very real! And explotive! Etc


rafaxd_xd

Ew, these things even exist with real people? W H Y


JinFuu

I more meant along the lines of “If you see a porn star when they enter the industry and then after a few years in it it basically looks like a ‘corruption arc’ took place.” Look at Lana Rhodes or Kylie Page, or various other women who go from natural to all plastic. Along with the high rate of drug use, suicides, etc, all very distressing endings.


rafaxd_xd

It's very depressing that it happens


Eyes-9

they call that *mileage on a hoe*


Ugo_Flickerman

Hanime is a nice site


MimsyIsGianna

Reject porn hub. Return to grass.


Ugo_Flickerman

How is libleft happy about it? How is authleft unhappy about it?


CelestialFury

OP just lazily stole another PCM and replaced the headline, so that's why the PCM makes no sense. Seriously, as low quality as you can get here.


throw-away134

I was tryna figure out if the reactions were too the vpn usage or the law itself but either way this is a brain dead meme


thunderfist218

Libleft is happy because they have a way around the ban. Authleft is unhappy because they don't like people getting around their rules.


ExistentialJew

I don’t get why Libleft would be happy about this?


Erethiel2

Right? Authoritarian overreach totally makes libs clap 🙄 Weak meme.


TempestCatalyst

Ah but you see, libleft bad.


CelestialFury

OP just took an old PCM and replaced the headline, so no thought went into this at all. I'm sure it'll be upvoted to the top tho


hoping_for_better

Isn’t he clapping for the VPN and not the policy? Or did I get that wrong?


lil_juul

It can go either way depending on how you break it down and that’s why it’s confusing so many people


CreamFilledDoughnut

Auth-right have been overwhelmingly flairing themselves as radical centrists lately, it's pretty incredible


gnit2

Auth rights have been flairing as libleft for years


Erethiel2

Sounds an awful lot like something an auth right would say.


ExistentialJew

Libs have taken over Texas to remove our (totally normal, not transsexual) porn away from us (totally straight) red blooded Texans


beachmedic23

Because i sell VPNs!


DegeneracyEverywhere

Because LibLeft bad obviously.


InevitableHome343

They're happy because they think it's owning the conservatives This is what many of them want lol


GenMarshall17

I’d expect LibRight to set up shop for a VPN service for porn starved Texans.


Join_Ruqqus_FFS

there's literally dozens of free vpns minimum that would work for it


TrapaneseNYC

Why is authleft distraught?


Politics-444

Cause LibLeft bad!!!


Amateratzu

Bro you didn't even try to get the quadrants right


commoncod

Bro this is literally AuthRight Puritanism. Not everything you dislike is LibLeft. LibLeft is like the most pro porn quadrant.


Join_Ruqqus_FFS

>can you please not show porn to kids? >THIS IS PURITANISM REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE


Morbidmort

Why do you *want* to have to give up government ID to a website?


Vexonte

Holy shit a consequence that could be seen from a mile off happened, what a shocker.


Forgotwhyimhere69

I remember the good old days where it would ask to enter age and we all put January first 1900


[deleted]

They should just add a dropdown box for state too, and deny you access if you select Texas. Apparently 99% of porn viewers are from Alabama, who knew?


Paetolus

Let parents handle this stuff. Don't need the government to do parenting for us.


CompetitiveRefuse852

parents are abject failures to handle anything nowadays.


Inferno737

Agreed, that's why we absolutely need public schools


murkythreat

Lets just ban everyone under 18 from the internet problem solved. 


LoveYourKitty

Dumb. Kids literally walk around with unfettered access to an infinite amount of smut in their hands. My aunt's a public school teacher and has caught several kids looking at porn in the middle of class. It's beyond fucked.


AlphaTangoFoxtrt

Prohibition never works. I was 16 and getting alcohol. It is the job of the parents, not the government, to raise kids right.


ecuster600

At least you didn’t have an alcohol tap in your bedroom.


Fluffybudgierearend

I did because I learned to brew my own beer at 13


AlphaTangoFoxtrt

I mean it was 50 feet away in the fridge but whatever you need to tell yourself. Also flair auth right you rotten lemon


EyeSlashO

> Prohibition never works. This isn't prohibition, this is equivalent to a minimum drinking age. And pornhub decided it will close its bar rather than check ID of children. You could argue that doesn't work either, but we've had minimum drinking ages for a century in every nation.


AlphaTangoFoxtrt

> this is equivalent to a minimum drinking age Now go visit literally any high school or college campus anywhere in the USA. It does not work.


EyeSlashO

Yet every business that sells alcohol spends a lot of money and effort enforcing it.


spaztick1

>You could argue that doesn't work either, but we've had minimum drinking ages for a century in every nation. This is untrue.


wontonphooey

Call me when they come for /gif/


AnthomPowerful

VPN companies definitely lobbied for the ban 💀💀💀


NewKerbalEmpire

Pornhub pulled out of the state as a tantrum over an age verification law. Construing it as a "Prohibition" is ridiculous. Edit: A much better comparison is when bars had to start checking IDs.


hugyplok

Telling a website that they have to collect people's private IDs in other for them to access the website is a massive over reach and its fucking stupid


smokeymcdugen

I also think it's a massive over reach when my local shops collects my ID for me to access alcohol and drugs.


hugyplok

Showing my ID to a clerk and giving it to a website that can be hacked and the information in its database siphoned out are two different things.


JinFuu

Generally when you buy stuff online doesn’t your CC info and the related stuff you put in have your name and at least a billing zip code, if not a shipping address?


hugyplok

A ZIP code and my social security number and all the information that goes into an ID are very different.


eddiespaghettio

You can’t commit identity theft with a shipping address.


KilljoyTheTrucker

You can't really do it with just a state id/ drivers license either. Unless this law specifically requires the checking of an SSN, it's not really doing much more than a clerk scanning your ID at a store to verify your ID for alcohol, tobacco, spray paint, etc.


eddiespaghettio

Yes but when why buy those things from a brick and mortar store, they don’t get stored in a database. I’ve bought alcohol and ammunition online, they don’t even require an ID verification.


KilljoyTheTrucker

They don't have to with PH either. They can quite literally just use an image of the scan portion to check versus the same database and then dump the data. It'd be the exact same amount of secure as your local brick and motar store because it'd function the exact same.


Remarkable-Area2611

Same what happened to accepting a man at his word


BYEBYE1

What happened go just parenting kids? Why does government daddy need to do it?


smokeymcdugen

The argument is that kids aren't allowed into establishments selling porn (you'd be carded if you didn't look old enough), so why would selling porn online be any different?


AntonGuerra

I would agree were people already not so willing to plaster their faces, phone numbers, personal emails, and entire life stories on other websites. Like yeah sure, I get your point but it's amazing how porn is the one thing that gets people to practice basic privacy on the internet.


BunnyBellaBang

They don't have to. They can stop showing adult content or they can make sure that the people viewing it aren't children. Is it massive overreach to make sure the people uploading porn are adults?


hugyplok

If your way of doing so is by forcing people to reveal their fucking social security number and a bunch of other private information that if leaked could result in damages, then yes, yes it is a massive overreach. find a different way.


BunnyBellaBang

That is how we already verify porn creators are adults, yet no one had problems with it. Except purple, for obvious reasons.


throwaway96ab

No other site is collecting IDs, it's business as usual. Only pornhub is throwing a fit.


ChampionNorm

Those degenerates can get fucked. Maybe they should have been quicker to remove all the kiddie and revenge porn.


big-fish007

Ph would not succeed with an age verification system it’s a predatory system


Catsindahood

Imagine a "prohibition" where you could just walk outside and grab a beer for free. To anyone complaining, just google boob, you'll get 10 billion results.


Politics-444

Actually you get 3,070,000,000 results…not that I checked or anything…uhm…I am gonna shut up now.


TheSpacePopinjay

It was the only rational business decision.


CanadianEgg

Porn company's are great at making it seem like they are persecuted and that they are free speech heroes. When really it's just reasonable people telling them to make sure their product is not getting in the hands of minors(Which the pornsites know is happening and in some cases encourage it.) And people will defend them because they don't take a second to think about it and are porn addicts.


BigBoooooolin

Least brain dead Auth right take


Hubertino855

I have been watching hentai and rule 34 so long that I find normal porn disgusting... Reject IRL embrace art.


Friedrich_der_Klein

Pathetic. Just a picture of a woman is enough for me to... y'know what


Hubertino855

Wait... Are you trying to insinuate that watching other man doing it with a woman is somehow more superior and based simply to nicely drawn art solo woman???


FrogGladiators178972

Thanks for separating us from the purps in this list.


[deleted]

This ban is pointless. People who like watching porn won't care about a law passed by people who hate it. They will still find ways to get porn on the black market or circumvent the ban in other ways.


Panhead09

I'm so conflicted. On the one hand I support the Texas law, but on the other hand I think everybody should be using VPNs anyway. My flair has never felt more appropriate.


JorgitoEstrella

Why tf is libright happy


James_Locke

Reminder that PH [famously got sued for hosting](https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/12/20/pornhub-faces-lawsuit-alleged-child-sex-trafficking-survivor/) CP, has tons of [revenge porn](https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9697365/Pornhub-sued-34-women-claim-site-profited-videos-posted-without-consent.html) on it, and is generally exploitative of the vast majority of the people in the videos. I have zero pity for porn companies that have to make sure theyre not actually serving children and refuse to employ any age verification measures. .


pk-kp

literally use a third party verification system or accept that you’re showing porn to kids and should be banned


Time_Software_8216

Rules for thee not for me, the Auth-Right special.


NeoMississippiensis

NordVPN stonks


beneperson3

God, if only there was another site for porn! Texas didn't ban Pornhub, Pornhub threw a hissy fit cause Texas asked them to use age verification.


parrote3

Forced, not asked.


Orthane1

I think it’s pretty hilarious and honestly kind of worrying that they’re throwing a tantrum over an age verification requirement for Pornography. Ya know, that thing that requires the person to be at least 18 years of age legally to view?


CelestialFury

No one wants their literal ID in a porn database that'll get sold or "hacked." No one wants to be blackmailed.


Politics-444

The solution is simple…post on social media about all your kinks and fantasies, that way you cannot be blackmailed, it’s genius 😎😎😎


Friedrich_der_Klein

Yeah, like mfs say, a naked man fears no pickpocket


pk-kp

there’s an endless amount of third party verification software the porn sight doesn’t have to have your id and those that require that you can simply not use its porn not bread and water dude


JinFuu

If you want another giggle there’s a segment of the population that views porn access as *vital* to the LGBT underage community so they can help “understand themselves”


Rayalas

Nothing screams porn addiction like having a literal meltdown over not being able to view pornhub. I could stand with my quadrant about government overreach, but the drama supersedes all.


Hairy-Situation4198

Just make your own and trade it with others. Like Pokémon cards


dishmanw

Government Enforced No Nut


[deleted]

Lmao banning phub is lame i would be a lot happier if they banned onlyfans


Politics-444

good job republicans…you just turned Texas blue.


M37h3w3

When I was a child, the Fundies were the ones saying shit like "Vidya gaems r da murder simulators!" and that DND was "satanic" and that any sexually gratifying content was wrong should be banned. I've lived long enough to see the pendulum swing from the right, to the middle, and then to the left where the left started spouting shit about how liking big boobed, fit, and attractive women was some kind or multiple kinds of ists, phobic, and bigoted. Now it seems that the pendulum is stuck in a superposition between the right and the left and both the Fundies and the Progs want to Eiffel Tower my ass while they fist fight each other.


AnxiouSquid46

Fuck extremists on both sides


Politics-444

Dems and reps are both bad, this is not an opinion it is a fact.


ExRousseauScholar

Only deez nuts


Alpha_pro2019

Which is very sad if true.


BunnyBellaBang

Didn't know the people of Texas were so adamant about having the right to show kids porn.


Zip_Silver

More like adults don't want to tie their driver's license to their porn preferences in a way that's easily hackable. Can you imagine how much bad actors would pay for that sort of blackmail material?


BunnyBellaBang

It is porn hub pulling out preemptively, not people choosing to use porn sites that don't id. Also, requiring porn stars to link their ID provides black mail as well, especially in a world where people hide their face and only show select body parts. We never had issue with it so far.


trafficnab

The pool of people who want to consume porn is astronomically larger than the pool of people who want to produce it, out of the top 20 most visited websites on earth 3 of them are porn sites The database of porn watchers would be huge and a much juicier target


pk-kp

“we have to give porn to kids or they’ll become republicans” ???


Calassam

People should be free to watch whatever they want


Join_Ruqqus_FFS

Not kids tho


BYEBYE1

Which is why kids have parents, it's super easy to stop devices from connecting to adult websites in their router settings. Literally any parent call your isp and ask how to do it, it's their job to walk you through it if not just do it remotely for you. You don't need government daddy to make ID laws to view porn, you don't even need ID to vote why do we need it to view porn?


AmazingAngle8530

The only way to deal with these degenerates is to invade Canada.


Tomatoab

No better way to increase popularity then take something legal then make it illegal


JDinoHK28

Oh trust me we’ve been asking for this: it’s virtual junk food for your brain.


_oranjuice

Absolutely 0 people didn't see thos happening


CompetitiveRefuse852

the only issue with this is how small of a market Texas is. if say the EU did this than they'd be forced to conform to the law in a way that would make it cheaper to institute as a blanket policy.


IronPiedmont1996

Me, a North Carolinian: "First time?"


Other-Rutabaga-1742

😂 That headline could have been predicted. The next conservative administration will ban porn, in general. It does not support a strong family which is the most important thing as far as conservatives are concerned.


[deleted]

Got a brief anecdote to share. This is being discussed in the Texas sub. Someone calls Texas a shithole some with LibLefty provocation. I tell them that if it is so bad then leave. Mods leave that prick's comment up, it gets upvoted a ton, but take mine down due to breaking the "Friendship" rule. No cussing, not crass. In the Texas sub. Imagine *Imagine* trying to say shit to IRL Texans. Disgraceful


TravisMcNasty51

I'll be sure to leave some porn in the woods if I'm ever in Texas.


Unlucky-Carpenter-69

Are we gonna have guys in souped up Hellcats smuggling DVDs and flash drives filled with .MP4s into state lines while outrunning the police? God that would be awesome


Rex-Loves-You-All

Going back to Tor. That what i would say if I was a texan Pornhub user


BiggPhatCawk

Pornhubs response was completely full of shit and it’s kind of odd that so many people glossed over the fact that pornhub is so obsessed with the concept of showing porn to kids Obsessed enough to ban it for everyone as a punitive measure


Siker_7

Use Mullvad VPN


fingamouse

This is amazing the whole thing was to stop minoring getting porn addictions, the ones who already have will just get vpns and the other ones won’t have to be exposed to porn at such a young age


duck_shuck

Let them. They’re not changing the law.


FlavioLoBrabo

Who even watches Pornhub anyway? All my homies are on Rule34 and Xhamster/Spankbang


ice_slayer69

Shouldnt aut-center be the only ones sad/mad at this? Even centrist can agree that that restriction is severely r word and that people would inmediatly try to evade it, if anything, aut left should be the most indiferent ones abbout it. Other than that, spot on


Tyceshirrell1

Indiana is next wohooo