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Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South
Submitted 4 weeks ago by sabreW4K3@lazysoci.al to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.404media.co/pornhub-is-now-blocked-in-almost-all-of-the-u-s-south/
Comments
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
The exact phrasing varies, but in most states, the details of the law are the same: Any “commercial entity” that publishes “material harmful to minors” online can be held liable—meaning, tens of thousands of dollars in fines and/or private lawsuits—if it doesn’t “perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material.”
Sure seems like that would cover a lot of websites, including most news sites.
ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
Yay, another paywall link
millie@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
404 Media: we’re not like the rest. Except when we are.
shakcked@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
I wouldn’t quite call it a paywall. This article is free with an email sign up. They discussed this before and not sure I believe it but their reason/excuse for free email sign up was to combat AI scrapers. They noticed their articles were getting scraped by a few well known AI scrape and repost “news” sites.
Trantarius@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
If they actually wanted to protect children, the answer is simple: reverse the responsibilities. Require porn sites to include metadata indicating it isn’t safe for minors. Require browsers to recognize that metadata, and filter out that content if parental controls are enabled. If parents are still too lazy to turn it on, make it default (like “safe search”, but more effective). The fact none of them have even suggested this is proof they don’t care about children or even porn, they just want to be seen as if they do.
limerod@reddthat.com 4 weeks ago
Parental control software like Adguard or Adguard DNS family protection, filter out NSFW content like this website. A website doesn’t even need to do a thing for it to work.
Chakravanti@monero.town 4 weeks ago
They don’t care about anything other than watching you. They don’t care how old you are. That’s just an excuse.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Yeah I hate when the real topic gets buried in nonsense white noise. This is PURELY about collecting those IDs and data.
DavidGarcia@feddit.nl 4 weeks ago
good, god fearing christians should only watch mormon porn
some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Hence, no one watches porn anymore. /s
HeartyOfGlass@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
This is devastating for my “southerners watching pornhub” kink.
tal@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Or does it make it more taboo and thus more appealing?
AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
*turns to look at Alabama expectantly*
ApeNo1@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
South of the border you can no longer watch films that go “South of the Border”.
GrindingGears@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Praise be. By his hand. May the Lord open.
Gilead voted for this…
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Temba, at rest.
Linktank@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Good thing there’s more than one porn website then I guess. Don’t tell them.
scbasteve7@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Its all porn, pornhub just prohibits itself from operating in states that pass this legislation.
The legislation in question requires you to prove you’re over 18 to enter these sites. Whether that’s through id or credit card info. However, this can lead to some pretty insane security issues. Just imagine if the id of every user along with their browsing data got leaked.
So instead, pornhub just refuses to operate in those states.
Gerudo@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
A surprising number of adult sites have been blocked. Most who abide by the block are the big branded companies. There are plenty who just ignore it, but those are mostly smaller aggregate sites that if one goes down, there are a dozen others just like it.
jdeath@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
there’s so many! but which ones!?!
Alice@beehaw.org 4 weeks ago
I’m not showing my driver’s license to any porn website, that’s stupid.
Linktank@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
What a weird world to live in. Who would ever do that?
Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
They all have cousins, so…
schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
John Perry Barlow was right: www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence
dragonfucker@lemmy.nz 4 weeks ago
Did he have a solution to the problem of online anarcho-capitalism?
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
Legalize recreational nukes, worldwide.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
I hate purity culture.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 weeks ago
Since that article is paywalled: Can someone from there enlighten me? Is it just some of the major platforms? Do you still have access to xhamster, xvideos and whatever? And how likely is it that they get blocked, too, in the near future?
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
it’s a matter of time before all the porn sites effectively go “we don’t want to deal with this legislation or with handling the PIIest of data. we’ll just IP block this whole region”
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 4 weeks ago
Ah, thx. I was under the impression that these porn sites get blocked... But it's the other way around, the porn sites block the users because they don't/cant't implement the regulations.... Thx for explaining.
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
That is actually what is happening. Nothing in the Florida law blocks these sites, they just don’t want to deal with it.
JokeDeity@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Just wait till my VPN hears about this!
Strayce@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
In other news, VPN subscriptions have skyrocketed in the U.S South.
tal@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Honestly, it might be a good thing long-run to have a higher percentage of users on VPNs. They aren’t a magic cure-all, but they do help make it safer to use untrusted networks and discourage some things on the service side, like geolocating and data-mining users based on IP.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 4 weeks ago
I’m worried it will lead to bans of those though too.
corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
I was raised Rural. I can confirm.
BuboScandiacus@mander.xyz 4 weeks ago
Or tor
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
Tor is too slow to watch videos. Wouldn’t wanna get interrupted in the middle of jerking off