Porn viewers in Virginia, Arkansas, and Mississippi are now met with a video imploring them to contact their representatives about age-verification laws.
@Syo I’m not american, but I’ve never understood why people see porn as something bad, then they proceed to see violence as something acceptable.
Take Hollywood movies as an example:
You can’t have any nipples on a 5 seconds scene, but you can have all the gore and violence that you want in the entire movie.
“While safety and compliance are at the forefront of our mission, giving your ID card every time you want to visit an adult platform is not the most effective solution for age verification, and in fact, will put children and your privacy at risk,” DeVille says in the video.
What a personal data <strikethrough> goldmine </strikethrough>. I mean we must protect the kids … from everything, everywhere, every time, at any cost.
There can be more than one threat… The bigger hypocrisy is banning good sex education from schools. The way kids are learning about sex and realationships from sites like PornHub is harmful to their future realationships and respect for each other…but these laws are not going to stop that
As a former Apollo user, I’m really going to miss not having to remember all the different ways to format.
Apollo is getting a spiritual successor for kbin in the form of https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp, so you may not have to remember all the formatting rules for long
I mean these sites aren’t going to implement anything like they want in these laws and few people are going to be up for using such a system. Yeah, they’re just going to throw up a block and remove liability. Then people who know will just VPN.
I could see the industry using some system that’s already built and free but not really develop one or take on more issues with personal information. Good luck with the government made browser extension that tracks your preferences though.
any politicians wanna maybe legalize porn? Its pretty popular
I’m not saying this because I disagree with you; porn does need stronger and more direct local legislation regarding production, consumption, and oversight; thus making it “legal”. However, just because something is popular doesn’t make it right. Murder is extremely popular - look at the murder rates around the world, it’s obviously a highly popular activity. Should we make that legal too? At what rate of popularity do we stop making things legal to serve the will of the mob?
Porn is going to exist whether it is legal or not. The difference is that when it’s underground it’s MUCH more likely to abuse the people involved. I mean hell, even while it is legal people are still being abused. It would be much better to keep it legal and focus on laws protecting the workers involved in the industry. The alternative would work the same as abortion, it’s about inhumane punishment for “immorality” instead of concern over the treatment in the industry itself
If every country in the world had a murder rate equivalent to the worst ones, and every murder was done by someone who had never killed before, 0.2% of people would be murderers. I mean, I agree with the idea that popular isn’t right, but, murder isn’t popular anywhere in the world, and I do think there’s some “popularity” threshold where something that may not be “right”, should still be legal - but I’m thinking that’s like “if 60% of the population does it, maybe we shouldn’t try and throw 60% in jail”, and not, “if 2 people in a thousand do something”
Getting real tired of these fucking Christian assholes trying to force their twisted morals on everyone else.
