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Lmao. Lots of people born Jan 1st 1900 bout to start viewing. Wonder if they'll begin changing ads to that demo.
"She added that although some personal information will be required, companies must not retain personal data after complete verification."
Surely they won't. >

Even if they do, it is secured.
Even if it is secured, there won't be any breaches.
Even if there are breaches, the terms of service you agreed to will make it impossible to sue them. >

And even if you can sue them, you'll be forced into arbitration.
And even if you aren't, they'll stall it out until you run out of money, give up, die, or any combination of the above. >

Or you'll just get a check for $10 five years later from the class action. >

$10?  Look over here at Mr. Money bags.  It will be a gift certificate to Block Buster. >

I got a gift-certificate for K-mart, but only for use on items sold in a blue-light special. >

My mom worked the toys and apparel for a while I remember when I was young. She would take me in the back and show me all kids of stuff like the break room and stuff. One day she got sent home early and I was so worried she didn’t loose her job but that 9/11 happened and my brother signed up for the army afterwards I think is what happened it was a weird time in my life… my life is so much more weirder now than I ever thought it would be…. >

Is this pasta? >

The youth will have to get their porn from the woods like we all had to as kids. >

or instagram.  Instagram is literally full of soft core porn disguised as cosplay. >

A lot of social medias just have str8 up porn too, like reddit. >

We can’t just click the “yes, I’m 18” box anymore?? >

I’ve wondered when this would happen since before the first images could even download efficiently. 😅 >

gilliananderson_boobs.jpg has finished downloading.
Whew! Time to see what this is all about! >

Good gracious, I'm old enough to remember when Netscape first supported progressive jpeg downloads, over a 1200 baud modem! >

Ugh whenever someone says “I’m old enough to remember” in relation to porn I’m immediately reminded I come from the generation who grew up with African tribal women in NG and the ladies underwear section of the Sears Roebuck catalog as our earliest outlets. >

Don't forget the magazine in the woods. >

That was very much real.  The woods close to the apartments I grew up in, every summer stashed away in a few trees you could always find magazines in the trees hidden away.  Some people think it's a fable or legend, but it was real. >

Filesharing didn't begin with the internet... >

What exactly can Louisiana do to a website that isn't located in Louisiana, often not even in the US?
Several years ago I owned some adult-type websites and I would get occasional e-mails from the government of Turkey demanding that I take them down because they violated Turkish law. Not that I block Turkey but straight-up take them down. Straight to trash they went. >

Lawsuits, but I don't think they have standing for just having a website up on the internet. Stuff like GDPR where EU citizens have accounts and are doing business (using services) with US companies like FB and Twitter is an example of what can be done. >

Those laws like in EU regard actively targeting EU citizens. Simply being acessible from a region usually doesn't constitute a basis for anything. >

That's my point, the general mechanism for disputes with sites is lawsuits, what you said is why I said they wouldn't really have standing just existing in a country. >

Isn't this the same party that despises government interference?? >

Ooh, La = Louisiana
This headline now makes far more sense. >

Yeah I got confused why a bill would only interfere with a single area of California because I read L.A. >

Gotta love feel good laws that can't be enforced, and any attempt to actually make it happen leaves a whole host of privacy issues.
From a tech perspective. A website has no one to enforce this just on Louisiana based residents even if they wanted to. You can't use the IP address to just target ones located in Louisiana because any border city may show across in the other State. And because a simple VPN to a server elsewhere defeats it. The ISP can't enforce it based off of physical address because, once again, a VPN to a server in another State or country will hide the traffic from the ISP and defeat it.
The only way you're going to have any sort of anything resembling success would be to require the websites to verify everyone going to the site, otherwise a VPN will bypass it. And once you do that, there will be data breaches which exposes fairly sensitive information that might be used to blackmail someone or to get them fired from a job based on their search history. So there's massive privacy concerns there. And even if they did that, any site not based in the US will just ignore the requirements anyway.
This shit is exactly why politicians should face repercussions for putting laws forward that are blatantly unconstitutional and/or completely unenforceable. >

From what I understand from the article, the enforcement comes in by the parents being able to sue the website. Good luck if the website is hosted somewhere outside the U.S. >

And most porn sites are, funny enough, at the very least owned by parties in other countries. Of course, they usually have US servers to make things faster, as most websites do. >

Oh no! How will I ever circumvent the internet’s air tight age verification systems!!
-NO UNDERAGE PERSON EVER >

The toothpaste is out of the tube at this point.  There’s no way to stop kids from watching porn >

Was there ever? >

I’m old from the pre internet era.  It was snooping playboys from your dads sock draw or scrambled playboy when cable first came out >

Yea the underwear section from the fat Kohls catalogue that appeared in the bathroom a few times a year was a staple of mine. That or spending 2 hours to download a nudie off kazaa using a dial up modem. Circa 2000 or so. >

The best thing about the catalog is that it doesn’t destroy your brain with overstimulation >

Time for kids in Louisiana to start cranking down to nude yoga on youtube >

Or just hop on a VPN and sign into literally anywhere else. >


sign into literally anywhere else.

...and start cranking down to nude yoga on Youtube. >

Please, we have to educate them, by making them crank to naked news >

CSPAN but naked. >

CSPAN butt naked >

Coming to a red state near you. >

Dad, I want a subscription to Nord VPN for Christmas. >

For real though, Nord is the shit. Haven't had any issues. >

I've been using expressVPN for about 3 years now and it's been great. >

Private Internet Access? >

There's a lot of companies offering nearly identical service for nearly identical pricing. Their sponsored ads on YouTube even all look the same.
It's almost impossible to tell them apart.  Until one of them has a data breach that they claimed was impossible because "we don't even keep logs".
Assign them all a number roll a 20-sided dice, use that one. >

Mullvad let's you mail them cash. As close to untraceable as you are gonna get. >

you can also super easily buy with crypto >

Crypto is meant to be traceable. It's in fact built on the idea of super in depth logs of all transactions. >

Originially crypto was advertised as anonymous, but it has been proven to be anything but.  I don't get why anyone still thinks it is. >

They will tie the type of porn you watch to your id. I'm sure this won't have any negative impacts on the LGBT+ community in the state, at all. 
...but I bet there's gonna be a lot of shock when they find out how many "good ol boys" like twink porn. >

Any kid with a boner and basic intelligence will easily get past the age verification. >


with a boner and basic intelligence

Apparently, Laurie Schlegel thinks they are mutually exclusive. >

About 20 years ago I learned more Spanish from a RPG Porn Game in said language than I ever did in 4 years of Spanish Language class. It's all about motivation. >

This is a garbage, feelgood law. It won't last long, mainly because it will fail. >

Exactly the type of law that politicians specialize in >

How in the hell is this going to be enforceable?
Is the state going to employ people who literally search for porn websites all day and block the ones who don't comply?
Ridiculous. >

It's not enforceable.  States can't create interstate laws.  So Louisiana can't force a company that is based and hosts their data in California to comply with a law in Louisiana. >

States can create laws that regulate conduct within the state (with some exceptions) like they are doing here. >

But that's not what they're doing here, unless their intention is to regulate porn companies that operate within Louisiana only.  There may be some, but most of them do not for sure.  To my knowledge, most are in California, Arizona, and Nevada.
Now they COULD create a law that says Louisiana residents can't access porn unless they have registered with the state of Louisiana or something like that and then they would hold their own residents liable if they break the law.  They CANNOT say that clownsex.com out of Los Angeles must abide by their rules because they have no jurisdiction over that company. >

So a supermarket company headquartered in Vermont can sell spoiled food in Louisiana all day, and there’s nothing Louisiana can do? >

So that's actually having to do with transporting a physical product into the state, which is a little bit different and I'm not 100% sure what the rules on that would be.  At that point, something is crossing state lines.  So it's possible they can make a law that says spoiled food can't be imported into the state.  But they CAN'T make a law that says spoiled foods can't be sold on the internet or require spoiled food sellers to have people verify their location to prevent sales to their residents, because "Vermont Grocery" does not fall within their jurisdiction. >

Why does online matter? Are you going to make our poor Louisiana grocery online shopper travel up to Vermont to sue? >

Online matters because because these laws are all location-based.  If I, SweetCosmicPope, open up a business delivering pot.  Let's just assume that legal in Washington (it isn't).  But let's assume it is.
Because I am located and running my business from Washington, I am under the jurisdiction of 1. the state of Washington and 2. The United States of America federal government.
My website is accessible to Louisiana residents just like anybody else in the world, but I do not provide any physical services in their area and have no physical presence in Louisiana.
So let's say the state of Washington tells me I need to verify people's ID before I can accept any orders.  I would have to comply or get in trouble, because I am under their jurisdiction.  Similarly, if the united states comes in and says no marijuana sales can be made online.  I would have to comply and my business would be ruined.
But the state of Louisiana cannot force me to have an age restriction to view my products, because laws in Louisiana do not apply to an entity in Washington.  They MAY be able to keep someone in Louisiana from purchasing a gift for their cousin in Seattle, but again I'm not well-versed in the laws of interstate commerce. >

What about online gambling? That isn’t legal in several states. It is of course entirely online and entirely regulated uniquely by different states. These corporations are typically incorporated in Delaware. >

That's an interstate commerce issue again.  Because money is changing hands across state lines, I'm not exactly sure how that works.
What I DO know is let's say draftkings (I don't know where they're based) is based out of state, which I assume it is.  They cannot tell draftkings they have to do anything with their site.  They can't tell them they have to check IDs, they can't tell them they have to close up shop, etc;  I would imagine they have ways to stop Louisiana residents from receiving funds from gambling on their site, but that kind of stuff is way too complex for me to know all the ins and outs. >

No to gun registries, yes to porn registries.  Party of small government eh. >

VPN... and back to the same as it ever was. >

"look where my hand was" >

"Time isn't holding up, time isn't after us" >

”…She said problems like depression, erectile dysfunction, lack of motivation, and fatigue can be directly linked to porn.”
“My Body, My Choice” doesn’t extend past masks or vaccinations for this bunch.
Anyway, I’d say, hands off my erection, but that sort of defeats the point. >

Correction: "A Body, My Choice" does not extend past themselves for this bunch. The double standard is the goal.
It's "my body my choice" when they don't wear a mask because your body is their belonging. Same with all other matters of 'choice'; it's fine if Hershel forces you to get an abortion, just as it's up to an elected official or a judge to decide whether or not you're going to get one or give birth.
Think of the 'royal we': when conservatives use terms like "America", or "We" or "Freedom", they're talking about themselves exclusively. >

I was born in 1900, I swear >

I was born in 1900 or 2004, whichever has me doing less scrolling >

This is a great ad for VPN service companies. >

Anyone else remember Adultcheck? >

Of all Louisiana's problems this must be pretty far down the list >

One would think, especially after going through 10 constitutions since 1812. Maybe the whole, trying to practice Napoleonic civil law in an English common law country thing doesn't work too well?
Especially when you mix a fuck ton of corruption in... >

I dunno, maybe with a new Constitution they can make it work this time. >

Cool. 
So someone puts in January 1st 1975. 
Very safe. >

Whatever happened to the "small government" ideals of conservativism? Oh wait, it's a lie that they use only at their convenience. >

"Small government" means the government shouldn't tell them what to do. Surprisingly often these things boil down to who is telling who what to do. When Conservatives are being told they hate it. When they're doing the telling they love it. >


The Republican state representative

Ah, there it is: “small government” conservatives demanding that private activities be regulated.
I’m shocked SHOCKED that this dingdong doesn’t know what a VPN is. >

i can see no argument for this.. do you want a quasi-government entity accessing your porn viewing habits? How likely is it that this information is not protected, and is in fact actively traded/sold? >

How long until we see NordVPN billboards across Louisiana? >

Considering that Minnesota just got their asses handed to them on their gold bullion laws, with a three judge panel declaring they, as a state, do not have a right to enforce laws on out of state businesses that don't inherently do business in their state (ie take up residence to where they'd have to pay taxes), I don't foresee anyone complying with Louisiana on this. 
And if Louisiana tries to sue reddit or pornhub, well, Minnesota already set the federal precedent on this one, so we'll have to see. 
Especially since Minnesota accepted the verdict and amended their laws to reflect the verdict. >

They think they're getting around this by saying that parents will individually have to sue the company, rather than the state doing it. >

On what grounds?
Don't parents have a responsibility to monitor and properly configure their home internet?
Also, most ISP's and routers offer content filtering. >

Just felt a huge disturbance in the force! The cries and pain felt by thousands of teenagers all at once. >

In the old days, the only access we had to porn was an uncle’s playboy collection or finding the random Hustler magazine in the woods >

Smart move Republicans. Everyone knows republicans don't watch porn because they are good Christian people. You guys aren't pushing your voting age bracket into the 80+ range at all. >

We all watch porn, including myself, I still don’t think a 12 year old should be able to log onto a pornographic website though. I don’t see how those two things are mutually exclusive, or how republicans/conservatives are hypocrites for this piece of legislation as if we don’t restrict the access of movies, alcohol, etc from minors too >

none of those things are regulated in private homes though.
you smoke your parents cigarettes and drink their beer and watch their porn. at some point it's the households responsibility. >

"Pornography is destroying our children"
Ok, how? Show me verified data to back up this statement. >

Sex is addictive, and so is porn. Maybe not in the same physical dependence as literal drugs but it is true that without regulation it can become an addiction that is very difficult to beat (no pun intended). And don't say that it gives young people any sort of realistic expectations for sex either, because it doesn't.. >

Fuck it, make your own >

Porn is now sponsored by Nord VPN. >

Yes, I'm sure this will prevent horny minors from looking at porn the same way all those PSAs and ID pop-ups on the websites stopped teenage me from cranking it. >

What about Reddit? Is that less than 33% pornography?
This whole assault on pornography is ridiculous. The only thing that porn needs to do better is showing a better, more realistic version of sex.
Clearly, this is all part of the fantasy that people need to be celibate before marriage but even back in the 1950s/1960s 95% of the population was not that way. These radical Christians view porn as a some kind of gateway drug to having sex.
If someone is experiencing erectile dysfunction or sexual problems, that's on them to just moderate their porn watching. >

Porn definitely has a lot of problems but pushing it to the shadows doesn't fix them >

Well, it is getting better when women start producing it. 
The actresses are treated better. 
Some of the men literally ruin their penises for it.
I think the US government needs to protect all sex workers better. Decriminalize prostitution. >

If they don’t keep the information, how can you audit them to ensure they’re following the law? >

That's insane and seems super unconstitutional. Use a VPN but now even websites are blocking VPN's witch also seems like it should be against the law. Hell Chrome is going to start blocking extensions like Adblock.
Funny how it's always Republicans signing in these China style systems. The NSA already tracks everything anyways and nobody cares. >

So it asks are you 18? Yes or No