Lame sauce. Can our elected officials just freaking decriminalize weed instead of worrying about dumb crap like this?
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Government not allowing me, a grown adult to watch porn is called FREEDOM!
These are politicians who think they are more moral then you.
I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called “Bring back the porn!”
Dr Cox is that you?
Only thing that stops a bad guy with pornography is a good guy with pornography
I will crank one out for sad Texans without a VPN account
Instructions unclear, my dick is now a pornography.
The real pornography was dicks all along
The party of personal freedom 😂
Your freedoms must comport with Christian values, or else they’ll be stripped from you.
Stripped?
Wait does Texas still have strip clubs?
If so, Those poor people are about to get overwhelmed
You know, you can just open the Brave Brower, click a button get a new private window with tor, which gives you a random IP, which bypasses many targeted IP/location restrictions. This is free compared to VPNs, which will cost money to get around these restrictions.
Just say if you need to nut Texas, Brave has got your back.
Any options in Firefox?
Just download TOR browser?
Most VPN providers have browser extensions.
Psst! Didn’t you get the memo? Lemmy hates Brave… for some reason
I did not . But apparently they like porn more than they hate Brave.
Not surprising.
Can our elected officials just freaking decriminalize weed instead of worrying about dumb crap like this?
Apparently that is too “woke” an idea for Texas, and what doesn’t appear to be too “woke” for Texas is letting you, an adult, watch porn.
Protecting, say, 17 year olds from deliberate access to porn is weird when you think about it. If they want porn, they are post-pubescent and therefore sexually mature.
“You are not 18 therefore you cannot have sexual interests” is a weird take on the face of it.
Maybe lock up the weird/dangerous stuff, and make it hard for little kids to see, but otherwise, knock yourself out.
Also by restricting access for sexually mature people it opens a means by which adults can provide access as a way to prey on them.
The reason adults shouldn’t be fucking 17 year olds isn’t their bodies, it’s the fact that the age of majority and difference in experience means for a massive power imbalance
Nope. Because didn’t you know? Porn is why society is in decline and why Millennials and Gen Z are having fewer children—not climate denialism, the rise of theofascism, or the constant attacks on people’s autonomy.
And porn is why people aren’t getting married as often—not because they’ve found healthier ways to have meaningful relationships.
And porn causes people to get addicted—nevermind the vast majority of psychologists and experts who don’t agree that it’s even possible to get addicted to porn; we should only listen to the relatively few theistic ones who support that notion.
And porn promotes human trafficking and abuse of minors, something I’m sure Republicans have no first-hand experience with and aren’t regularly caught engaging in, and a greater problem I’m sure they’re addressing by prosecuting and not hiding the perpetrators…
(/s)
34 tabs
Trying to visit pornhub
OP is criminally horny. And indecisive.
Maybe it’s porn mixed with regular browsing? Then 34 tabs isn’t insane if you’re not a serial tab closer. I wasn’t uncommon for me to have 10+ tabs open on my phone, and now that I switched to Firefox I don’t really even close tabs. I currently have 70+ tabs open, most of which Firefox has unloaded into inactive tabs, and every once in a while I purge all inactive tabs to feel like a responsible adult.
Same tbh. I regularly have 10ish tabs open but I’m actively using them. It’s stuff I’m watching, tabs for what I’m playing and tabs for stuff I need to get done. I just leave em open until I get to them but they all get seen/used on the daily.
Is that considered excessive? Honestly I’ve been trying to be better about that. I feel like my average was in the 80s for a long time. And no it’s not all porn lol
I used to have 1000 tabs open on Firefox, it started having stability issues at ~800 and finally crashed for the final time and refused to reopen my tabs at around 1200 (which I assume is because it ran out of memory). However, Amazon’s Silk Browser is fucking indestructible. I have at least 10,000 tabs open on a 10-year old Kindle Fire with minimal performance issues, and the only problem I’m having is that I can’t back up the tabs as URLs in a text file or something in preparation for the kindle fire finally kicking the bucket.
I mean, this is a constant problem with legislation. This, and enforcement.
You make it illegal to do something because we need to protect the children and only those willing to break the rules will be able to deliver on the thing that people want.
This already happened recently to smoking, specifically vaping, and I’m all too familiar with the arguments. But if I can take an example from vaping… They wanted to outlaw flavors, and largely failed. Bluntly, there’s already laws, which lack any semblance of effective enforcement, which prohibits people who are underage from buying, owning and using any tobacco products… More or less, depending on your specific country/state/province/region/county/whatever. But history has shown that tobacco products end up in the hands of underage people regardless of this. Whether because the cashier at the local smoke/vape/whatever shop or convenience store or gas station or whatever, didn’t give enough of a flying fuck to deny someone because they “did not have their ID with them” or didn’t even care enough to bother asking for it. I can’t blame them, pissing off a passing customer who might be armed, could be violent, may have anger, violence, or homicidal issues, just because some fat fuck behind a desk says no, risking the rare chance that the person could be participating in an investigation which will result in a “hefty” (though not hefty) fine at worst, one which they won’t have to pay, doesn’t really give the best motivation for giving any shits about the law.
But upstanding law abiding organizations trying to do their best to comply with the laws are punished by trying to make these fuckers happy. It’s not worth the trouble.
In the case of vaping, black market/street vapes have no regulation to protect the users. I followed almost every case of “vaping caused x respiratory problem for this person”, and in every instance that I could track beyond the initial report, it was discovered that the individuals were buying their shit from illegal operations, who put God knows what additives into the shit they sell, and frequently, if I could get enough information on it, the result was that some bullshit illegal additive caused the problem, not the legit ingredients that are supposed to be in a vape, as governed by law. Those additives have no place being inhaled, and for good reason, they damage your lungs. But mass media’s one-and-done style of reporting, never, ever, fucking follows up and the public who don’t bother doing any goddamned research of their own start to think all vaping products are bad because reasons.
To bring it back on point. Sites like porn hub, have benign ads. I’m sure we’ve all experienced the bullshit ads at one point or another that seem to rip you out from where you’re browsing and they take over your screen with some crap like “you have a virus, call our (scam) center to fix it”… On legitimate websites (pornhub included) these ads don’t exist. If you spend as much time on shady websites as I do, you would know that such browser hijacks still exist. The only thing this law will do is make it extremely difficult to use any legitimate website, pushing people to use less reputable sources for their porn, and leading them right into the waiting arms of scammers and con-artists. This kind of idiotic policy erodes public safety.
IMO, this shit is happening and keeps happening because the law makers are ignorant of how this shit actually works, they don’t understand behavioral patterns, and the media reinforces their fears and the fears of their constituents with their one-and-done sensationalist news stories that never get any kind of follow up.
This is a well thought out response and I 100% agree. Laying out the parallels with vaping and all the “think of the children” fearmongering nails it pretty well IMO.
Someone who gets the verification database will be able to blackmail people. Will have a picture of you and that you watch XYZ kinky porn.
Not to mention, little jimmy can steal his dad’s drivers license pretty easily.
Eventually they will require you to turn your webcam on and perform an action like raise your left hand, then AI will compare your face to that in the photo on the license.
And it will then expand to other websites like social media and anonymity on the Internet will be gone forever.
Having an AI spit out a response is how you train an AI to get better. That would just result in an AI arms race, and horny teens have a lot more manpower and free time.
HornPub should also tag along a voter registration link as a giant fuck you to Texistan republicans
“I’m fairly sure if they took porn off the internet, there’d only be one website left, and it’d be called ‘Bring back the porn!’”
I feel like this is the extreme place they feel they needed to go after “accidentally” jerking it to some removed porn, one to many times
They call that a “stumbling block” rather than just accepting how they feel. So they want to remove those sexy penises.
It’s like the Imam who said men without beards cause impure thoughts. That says more about you than it does about the men without beards. Embrace those sexy beardless men buddy.
I don’t care if you’re straight, gay, demi, bi, or whatever else. First, you shouldn’t feel bad about it. Enjoy yourself and be you. Second, you sure as shit shouldn’t be telling anyone else how they should live because you do feel bad about it.
