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  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.
context: "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…. >
  
  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! >
  
  The last third of that photo loading over a period of several minutes made me a man. Absolutely on Navigator. >
  
  I'm glad someone else remembers those times!  And Navigator was the only way to get Progressive images, no other browser came close! >
  
  The first to introduce customization, like themes as well!   Opera swept in a year later to try and launch with the fluff, but navigator was my jam for as long as I can remember. 
  These days the internet may seem wild-west, but those days back then were the gold rush. >
  
  You also had to subscribe to an ISP (dial up) back then.  I used Concentric.net, for about 12 years, until they just vanished.  As did all the accounts i had set up with my concentric.net email :(
  I probably spent a couple thousand hours, playing Ultima Online (in beta, then production) even before the Trammel/Felucca split, on dial-up! >
  
  Ultima was such a staple of the time! I remember how much I loathed EarthLink back then in my area.
  Such a weird fondness for the tones of a pre-56k ISP dial-in. Horrid sound, but it was the gate to the world opening.
  Edit: typo >
  
  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 >
  
  Isn't this the same party that despises government interference?? >
  
  Only if it makes them a target.  They adore it when others are the target. >
  
  Well, this should be eye opening. I don’t they know how many targets are in their own house on this one. >
  
  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. >
  
  I own a sex toy shop. I hope one day I get an email from Turkey, but so far it's just spam and the occasional product inquiry. >
  
  Doesn't anyone just jerk it to the bra and panty section of the Sears catalog anymore? >
  
  What's Sears and a catalog? Is that The Kardashians new line? >
  
  First, my kids hear a dial tone on tv and have no fucking clue what it is. Now you’re doing this to me. >
  
  Tell them that back in the day, when you wanted to use the internet, first the internet would have to call and yell at you over the phone. >
  
  Lol they also wanted to know why the Simpson kids had to be home at a certain time to watch a certain show. >
  
  "Well y'see Billy, when a television program came on, it aired that one time at a specific time and day. Maybe the day after if it's popular, or the next week before the new episode's time slot, but that's it. If you wanted to see it again, you had to get lucky and hope that the network would put it on as a rerun, and hope that the episode you want is playing. Also, you couldn't pause, fast forward, or rewind it. You had to check a channel called the TV Guide and see if your episode was playing later, then program your VCR to record it to a VHS tape. Only then could you watch an episode on demand."
  "But Parent Figure, what if the show wasn't on a rerun?"
  "Well, then you're fucked, Billy. If you were a fan of less popular, less profitable shows, then they didn't get reruns, or they'd only happen once in a blue moon at 4AM or something. In that case, you just never got to see it again, officially anyhow. Later on, people would upload their own copies of these shows to a magical place called LimeWire. But you had to be careful: sometimes it wasn't the TV show, sometimes it was a cartel beheading, or two gir- uh, a rickroll, Billy. Just one guy and no cups involved..." >
  
  You had VCR. >
  
  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 >
  
  Friend of mine was convinced he could slightly descramble by rubbing a piece of aluminum foil on the shield of the coax connector on the back of the cable box. He'd wrap a piece around it and proceed to slowly twist and adjust the position for the perceived, coincidental payout moment when a blue-green, smeared, distorted titty would be kind of visible for five seconds. >
  
  Isn’t this beat for beat that scene from American Pie? >
  
  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. >
  
  The youth will have to get their porn from the woods like we all had to as kids. >
  
  or forums with torrent or one click hoster links >
  
  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" >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  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? >
  
  This is a garbage, feelgood law. It won't last long, mainly because it will fail. >
  
  Coming to a red state near you. >
  
  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. >
  
  This is a great ad for VPN service companies. >
  
  ”…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. >
  
  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. >
  
  So THAT case is a little different.  This is imposing rules on the sale of pork within the state of California.  So basically saying Kroger or whoever they have there can’t sell pork from a shitty farm.  Which would mean they can’t buy from Billy bob’s discount pig farm in Missouri.
  IANAL, and I’m not sure how I feel about the constitutionality of this particular legislation.  On one hand, it’s clearly only regulating stores within California, but because it also affects interstate commerce, I’m not sure how that ties into it and I’m not well-versed enough to say whether they would be legal or not. >
  
  Thanks for checking it out and commenting! I guess I saw the connection in that one state's law is affecting businesses based in other states. You're right, no state currently can tell businesses elsewhere how to run, but this current case points out that it can end up doing so in a de facto way if said business wants to be able to reach consumers in that state. I agree that it's different though since in the pork case it sounds like many businesses could tank if they can't sell to their biggest customers, which are apparently all in CA. >
  
  It's the same reason that cars follow California emission standards despite the fact that other states are less strict.  
  Nobody is going to give up that big of a market, and it's not efficient to try and make 50 different variations on an engine to try and match all the various state rules. >
  
  Makes sense >
  
  How long until we see NordVPN billboards across Louisiana? >
  
  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. >
  
  I was born in 1900, I swear >
  
  I was born in 1900 or 2004, whichever has me doing less scrolling >
  
  Anyone else remember Adultcheck? >
  
  The sons of louisiana deserve to send trillions of their kids to an early sock like their fathers before them >
  
  Cool. 
  So someone puts in January 1st 1975. 
  Very safe. >
  
  No to gun registries, yes to porn registries.  Party of small government eh. >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  
  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. >
  
  If they don’t keep the information, how can you audit them to ensure they’re following the law? >
  
  As a Los Angeles resident I was really confused and outraged. Then I read the comments and realized “La” for Louisiana. Now if you’ll excuse me I’ll go back to browsing r/RealGirls without any restrictions. >
  
  Now there is a way to get people to get an ID. >
  
  Porn is now sponsored by Nord VPN. >
  
  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. >
  
  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. >
  
  Oof.  For a second I thought they meant Los Angeles and now im so relieved >
  
  Say… What does this “Block User” thingy do? >
  
  Fuck it, make your own >
  
  Eh, it is LA, kids (and other family members) can just bang their relatives.
  As long as they pray afterwards. >
  
  I watch all my porn from right here. >
  
  Social conservatism is just an angry old white guy staring at a glob of toothpaste and angrily trying to squeeze it back into the tube. >
  
  Based on this article I should take a trip to LA and sue if not asked my age. >
  
  Christian fascism hard at work >
  
  Same politicians that absolutely refuse to consider any action on gun control.  Your 12-year-old can be murdered at school quite easily but heaven forbid he sees a titty. >
  
  This just gonna lead to more pirating  off sites like simpcity 🤣 
  Anyways  amatuer stuff is better so