As more and more states pass laws targeting “pornographic material” in books and online, they are repeatedly running up against a problem: The Bible has not just a few passages that could be considered indecent

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That law is a complete waste of time. It’s inevitable its going to be overturned (if theres at least a shred of common sense in the Virginia courts)

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The majority of porn sites don’t even bother trying to comply with laws like this and there’s nothing state governments can do about it.

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Yep, sites that wish to comply with the new regulation simply block traffic from those states. Search results for VPNs increase sharply for a few days and nothing really changes.

Laws arn’t that easy to pass, makes you think if that effort was put into something constructive instead of reinforcing that prohibition doesn’t work…

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What does the law actually do?

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It makes conservatives feel all warm and fuzzy inside.

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Forces people of Virginia to start using VPN’s.

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They’ll appeal to the Trump SCOTUS.

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