Posted on 03/14/2024 5:26:41 PM PDT by Callahan
Well then
Your comment lamenting the loss of the first amendment makes no sense.
Well, actually it does if you contrast the holding in Ferber and the Texas law.
And the people of Texas say, “Good riddance!”
Ah. Got it.
Came here to post this, leaving happy!
Well..... it’s back to the little whorehouse for Texas.
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.
“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.
You project your kinks too much.
Given the state of our government, there many reasons to use a VPN aside from your prurient pursuits.
Did they now? /rimshot
:^D
Premature extract-ulation?.................
So you need ID to look at porn, but no ID to prove you are an American to vote. okay,, clowns will be clowns
“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.
You are exactly right.
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.
Or that shack outside LA Grange
SOME VPNs cost money. MANY do not. And can be found and installed with a few mouse clicks starting at your favorite search site.
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.
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.
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