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oh it looks like it's working again

Yeah pulling out is never enough, you need to wear protection.

Slippery slope is nonsense. We dont allow a bunch of other things for children, its not any different because the company would rather stop selling altogether then to adjust for regulations.

A lot of people here are acting like free access to any type of pornography is a net benefit for society as well, which I find strange.

The real issue is that most people dont know how to use vpns. So they just go to sketchier websites.

"Land of the free"

They should really look at changing their national anthem.

And more importantly, these laws are written so broadly that these age verification laws can be applied to any website that the state government doesn't like whether they host porn or not. CNN posts article about killings in Gaza? That's not appropriate for children so ID needed. Left-wing forum that's critical of the local Republican government? Well that's not appropriate for children either so we'll need to see the IDs of everyone that has ever visited the site.

I hope these laws get overturned sooner than later but I won't hold my breath.

They're welcome to try, but I seriously doubt they will be successful

Or they are laws to prevent children from seeing pornography.

It's much broader than sex though:

Florida’s law is HB3. The law is broad. It requires a website that provides material that is “harmful to minors” to provide a means of “anonymous age verification” to its minors. What does it mean for material to be “harmful to minors?” According to the law any material that “the average person applying contemporary community standards would find, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.”

I guarantee this will be used (or at least attempted) to silence political speech critical of local governments. It's far too easy to come up with even the weakest justification for why something isn't appropriate for children and Republicans have an army of useful idiots ready to parrot their rhetoric and convince everyone else who isn't paying attention to what's happening.

further, paradoxically, denying access to porn puts women in more danger. most porn consumers will probably just get a vpn and roll with it. but enough of them will translate their frustration into violence against women for it to be a problem. we know this because we've seen it before. sex work is degrading, dehumanizing, and exploitative, but banning it consistently makes it worse, not better, for the people most endangered by it.

I mean, it kind of writes itself, but yeah. Sometimes the easy ones are, in fact, the best ones.

The old rule of don't put your dick in crazy

I mean, yeah, otherwise they'd want regulations that prevent it from being manipulated by individual rich people, but they have always been against anti-monopoly regulation and other protective regulations.

"Free market" doesn't mean free from regulation, it means free from interference in the supply and demand of the product. But there's still a need to prevent other forces from interfering with supply, including from those participating in the market. If a single company prevents any competition from entering the market, that is what's not "free market".

They sort of did awhile ago with VPN hub. I haven't heard about it in awhile though. I wonder if they're trying to distance themselves from it

It's good to be a VPN service these days. I bet business is up.

Don't want them to ban vpns

They can probably include it with PH Premium.

The legions of hicks love this kind of virtue signaling oppression and don't mind that they're stuck in a trailer park. Priorities.

It doesn't even manage to block access to porn. For god's sakes you'd have to block the entire Internet.

I probably shouldn't say that or they'll get ideas. It's all performative.