Comment on New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state
shalafi@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Me visiting me in 1998:
“So, yeah, the United States has fallen to fascism, it’s all over but the shouting. Donald Trump is the President for the second time. Yes, that Donald Trump. Censorship is the rule of the day and the only major corporation to stand against it, taking a hit to their own profits, is the internet’s largest focal point for porn, a sort of hub for porn.”
“You are clearly demented. Get the fuck out of my house old man.”
“Wow, a second time? He must have done really well the first time!”
Yeah, not really. He tanked the economy into nearly a recession, then over 1M people eventually died from a respiratory virus, he lost re-election, failed to lead a coup, then was convicted of 34 felonies but the judicial department slow-walked until he was re-elected again. Yeah. 2020s have been rough.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 months ago
I wouldn’t really describe complying with a law as taking a stand against it. Pornhub blocks all US states which require ID verification.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Which is ridiculous if you think about it. The whole point of a website is that the visitor goes to them. Unless their servers are located in a place that place should have no jurisdiction or authority over them whatsoever.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 months ago
Yeah, I their their proposed option of using standardized tags for content blockers for parents to use is much more sensible. But this law isn’t about protecting children, it’s about control and seeing what they can get away with. With the stir about transgender people being classified as nihilistic violent extremists the idea of seeing discussion of LGBT topics online as “obscene” and requiring submitting your ID to do is not far fetched.
hector@lemmy.today 10 months ago
They are not complying with the law, if they were complying with the law they would be doing age verification and collecting everyone’s information in a masturbator base.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 months ago
They are not displaying content that requires age verification in those jurisdictions. That’s compliant.
hector@lemmy.today 10 months ago
Exactly, they are not doing the age verification. What would you have them do?