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Pornhub Pulls Out of Texas
404media ^ | 3/14/24 | Samantha Cole

Posted on 03/14/2024 5:26:41 PM PDT by Callahan

All of the sites in Aylo's network, including Pornhub, YouPorn, and Brazzers, are blocked in Texas, their homepages replaced with a message about the company's rejection of age verification laws…

(Excerpt) Read more at 404media.co ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: aylo; censorship; childtrafficking; fabianthylmann; ouissamyoussef; porn; pornhub; stephanemanos; texas; verification
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To: thegagline

Well then

Your comment lamenting the loss of the first amendment makes no sense.


21 posted on 03/14/2024 8:20:57 PM PDT by Persevero (You cannot comply your way out of tyranny. )
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To: Persevero

Well, actually it does if you contrast the holding in Ferber and the Texas law.


22 posted on 03/14/2024 8:32:22 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024)
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To: Callahan

And the people of Texas say, “Good riddance!”


23 posted on 03/14/2024 8:55:31 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (Disband and Defund the putrid FBI. America does not need an out of control Gestapo)
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To: Callahan

Ah. Got it.


24 posted on 03/14/2024 9:20:28 PM PDT by napscoordinator (DeSantis is a beast! Florida is the freest state in the country! )
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To: Vermont Lt

Came here to post this, leaving happy!


25 posted on 03/14/2024 10:34:50 PM PDT by FrankRizzo890
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To: Callahan

Well..... it’s back to the little whorehouse for Texas.


26 posted on 03/14/2024 10:51:49 PM PDT by LastDayz (A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
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To: MeanWestTexan

If you or some horny teenager want to use a “free” VPN that is selling your a data and putting ads and malware on your computer to make money go ahead. In any case, the point is it now requires at least some level of effort before kids in Texas swamp their brain with endless porn on the most prominent commercial sites, which seems reasonable to me.


27 posted on 03/15/2024 2:02:14 AM PDT by Callahan ( )
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To: MeanWestTexan

“There are all sorts of free VPNs.”

I use IP Vanish as my VPN provider. I believe it costs about 9 bucks a year. I use it with my Kodi framework and The Crew Add-on. I get every hockey game and any movie I want to see.


28 posted on 03/15/2024 3:31:04 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Trump/Jennifer-Ruth Green in 24)
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To: Callahan

You project your kinks too much.

Given the state of our government, there many reasons to use a VPN aside from your prurient pursuits.


29 posted on 03/15/2024 4:33:37 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Sometimes There Is No Lesser Of Two Evils)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...
Did they now? /rimshot

30 posted on 03/15/2024 9:45:07 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: cotton1706

:^D


31 posted on 03/15/2024 9:46:08 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Putin should skip ahead to where he kills himself in the bunker.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Premature extract-ulation?.................


32 posted on 03/15/2024 9:48:09 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: Callahan

So you need ID to look at porn, but no ID to prove you are an American to vote. okay,, clowns will be clowns


33 posted on 03/15/2024 10:55:08 AM PDT by Callnote (Stacking sats, don’t have time to explain, study it for your self !)
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To: thegagline

“Yes, I read NY v Ferber back in law school.”

You went to law school and still don’t know that porn is NOT speech protected under the first amendment?

Did you read Miller v. California?

Obscenity. such as the depiction of penetration in porn, (let alone the far more obscene content of sites like pornhub such as the explicit depiction of rape and torture) is still technically illegal under federal law.

From the Justice Department’s website:

“federal law prohibits both the production of obscene matter with intent to sell or distribute, and engaging in a business of selling or transferring obscene matter using or affecting means or facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including the use of interactive computer services. (See 18 U.S.C. § 1465; 18 U.S.C. § 1466). For example, it is illegal to sell and distribute obscene material on the Internet. Convicted offenders face fines and up to 5 years in prison.”

https://www.justice.gov/criminal/criminal-ceos/citizens-guide-us-federal-law-obscenity

The problem is that these laws have been unenforced ever since Bill Clinton became president.


34 posted on 03/15/2024 11:29:29 AM PDT by unlearner (I, Robot: I think I finally understand why Dr. Lanning created me... ;-)
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To: DesertRhino

You are exactly right.


35 posted on 03/15/2024 11:30:42 AM PDT by unlearner (I, Robot: I think I finally understand why Dr. Lanning created me... ;-)
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To: Callahan

Not rejection of age verification laws. Recognizing that those laws are written with zero understanding of technology and are impossible to follow. So they officially block the state, and users are already probably connecting with VPN, and nothing actually changes.


36 posted on 03/15/2024 11:32:24 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: LastDayz

Or that shack outside LA Grange


37 posted on 03/15/2024 11:32:43 AM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Callahan

SOME VPNs cost money. MANY do not. And can be found and installed with a few mouse clicks starting at your favorite search site.


38 posted on 03/15/2024 11:33:42 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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To: discostu; All

https://x.com/KenPaxtonTX/status/1768416387607810366

PornHub has now disabled its website in Texas. Sites like PornHub are on the run because Texas has a law that aims to prevent them from showing harmful, obscene material to children. We recently secured a major victory against PornHub and other sites that sought to block this law from taking effect. In Texas, companies cannot get away with showing porn to children. If they don’t want to comply, good riddance.


39 posted on 03/15/2024 2:40:15 PM PDT by Texan4Life
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To: Texan4Life

They aren’t on the run. Most folks use VPNS, especially folks accessing smut. With a VPN your computer can “be” ANYWHERE.

These laws are frankly just political masturbation. They don’t bother the illegitimate cause they already don’t care. And they barely bother the legit sites like PornHub because they know the customers use VPN. No victory was secured, none of the legit companies are actually trying to show porn to kids, they greatly prefer people with credit cards. They can’t comply because the laws are stupidly written and don’t understand anything about the technology, NOBODY can comply with these laws. But they don’t have to worry, because the users will use VPN.


40 posted on 03/16/2024 6:32:43 AM PDT by discostu (like a dog being shown a card trick)
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