If they actually wanted to protect children, the answer is simple: reverse the responsibilities. Require porn sites to include metadata indicating it isn’t safe for minors. Require browsers to recognize that metadata, and filter out that content if parental controls are enabled. If parents are still too lazy to turn it on, make it default (like “safe search”, but more effective). The fact none of them have even suggested this is proof they don’t care about children or even porn, they just want to be seen as if they do.
Parental control software like Adguard or Adguard DNS family protection, filter out NSFW content like this website. A website doesn’t even need to do a thing for it to work.
In other news, VPN subscriptions have skyrocketed in the U.S South.
Or tor
Tor is too slow to watch videos. Wouldn’t wanna get interrupted in the middle of jerking off
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(or just sneak into your parents bedroom closet and watch the live show, if you are Alabamian)
I hate purity culture.
Conservatism has been forcefully on the rise, but something like porn can cause it’s downfall. It reminds me of the videotape format wars end 70s, early 80s, with VHS pushing out Betamax due to porn.
good, god fearing christians should only watch mormon porn
Hence, no one watches porn anymore. /s
This is devastating for my “southerners watching pornhub” kink.
Yay, another paywall link
404 Media: we’re not like the rest. Except when we are.
I wouldn’t quite call it a paywall. This article is free with an email sign up. They discussed this before and not sure I believe it but their reason/excuse for free email sign up was to combat AI scrapers. They noticed their articles were getting scraped by a few well known AI scrape and repost “news” sites.
How long until somebody automates the scraping with throw-away email addresses?
Wrong question. How long ago, you mean.
That’s a bs reason, email paywall bypassing is so easy that it could just as well not exist.
South of the border you can no longer watch films that go “South of the Border”.
They all have cousins, so…
Interesting to learn that Pornhub now requires “identity verification for uploaders.” That must’ve had the same effect on a lot of non-professional uploaders that the new laws will have on U.S. viewers, making them go elsewhere.
They purged everything for unverified uploaders in 2020:
“As part of our policy to ban unverified uploaders, we have now also suspended all previously uploaded content that was not created by content partners or members of the Model Program,” Pornhub said in a company blog post, as first reported by Vice. The purge appears to have hit almost 9 million of the 13.5 million videos on Pornhub as of Sunday, or nearly two-thirds of all the content hosted on the site.
“This means every piece of Pornhub content is from verified uploaders, a requirement that platforms like Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Snapchat and Twitter have yet to institute,” the company added. “In today’s world, all social media platforms share the responsibility to combat illegal material. Solutions must be driven by real facts and real experts. We hope we have demonstrated our dedication to leading by example.”
The swipe at other social media platforms is no accident. “It is clear that Pornhub is being targeted not because of our policies and how we compare to our peers, but because we are an adult content platform,” the company added. Citing Facebook’s transparency report, the company added, “Over the last three years, Facebook self-reported 84 million instances of child sexual abuse material. During that same period, the independent, third-party Internet Watch Foundation reported 118 incidents on Pornhub. That is still 118 too many, which is why we are committed to taking every necessary action.”
Citing Facebook’s transparency report, the company added, “Over the last three years, Facebook self-reported 84 million instances of child sexual abuse material. During that same period, the independent, third-party Internet Watch Foundation reported 118 incidents on Pornhub. That is still 118 too many, which is why we are committed to taking every necessary action.”
Some Balatro level shade being thrown there.
I changed my vpn to several locations to see what would happen when I brought up pornhub and xnxx. Miami blocked pornhub, but not xnxx. Houston and Atlanta blocked neither. YMMV
Perhaps they have made the decision to treat all IP addresses that aren’t officially marked as residential connections in known locations as being in international waters. As the wave of censorship continues, they’ll most likely be required to block VPN users and other “data centre” IPs well before the VPN services themselves are banned.
Since that article is paywalled: Can someone from there enlighten me? Is it just some of the major platforms? Do you still have access to xhamster, xvideos and whatever? And how likely is it that those get blocked, too, in the near future?
it’s a matter of time before all the porn sites effectively go “we don’t want to deal with this legislation or with handling the PIIest of data. we’ll just IP block this whole region”
Ah, I was under the impression that these porn sites got blocked… But it’s the other way around, the porn sites block the users because they don’t/can’t implement the regulations… Thx for explaining.
The regulations are essentially “you need to take the ID of everyone who uses your site and hand it over to the government to protect the children”. Privacy be damned, and I guarantee it’s going to become more and more widespread.
I got some eID and it’s supposed to do age verification for like a decade now. And they must have hired some proper computer science experts, because the idea was to implement this as a “zero knowledge proof”. Which is a very nice concept: You can prove your age to a porn site completely anonymously, without revealing anything (not even your exact age), just that you’re above a certain age.
Of course no one uses that system 😑
The technology for sure is out there. So if the true motivation is to block access for minors… We could just do it. Only takes an id with a chip on it and/or a smartphone app.
Just like accessing direct messages or any other form of personal data, it’s never actually about the children.
Sadly true. And happens we’ve just started discussing total internet surveillence again, here in Germany. This time it’s an exception from the rule and not about the usual “would someone please think of the children”. But it’s not any better. For some reason they’re always pushing for data retention / surveillance / snooping on private messages here.
That is actually what is happening. Nothing in the Florida law blocks these sites, they just don’t want to deal with it.
