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At the dawn of the new year, Pornhub will leave Florida. Thanks to a harsh new age verification law that takes effect on January 1, the porn giant will no longer do business in the sunshine state. The law mirrors similar laws passed in other Republican led states where Pornhub has stopped doing business.
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I have two reactions
- Oh no, anyway. VPNs exist
- This is scary, these Verification Laws are killing the internet even more painfully than the corporate takeover.
Feels like they are the same thing.
Not in FL, but in another GOP state that I’m sure will join the bandwagon eventually. I knew there was a reason I’ve been hoarding “data”.
I wonder if pornhub owns shares in a VPN company?
I wonder if GOP owns shares in a VPN company?
Right? There’s always a grift.
Florida isn’t even the first. Arkansas has already had the same basic effect.
PH stopped working in VA several months ago if not longer, and we weren’t the first.
thank god i don’t live in south boston, but instead boston. at least according to mullvad. ain’t no way i’m uploading my driver’s license to shit
Always pull out. Even if you’re wearing a condom. Even if she says she’s on the pill.
Should be the default strategy always! Small price to pay for piece of mind.
Yeah I dont know why I always get downvotes from folks saying to pull out. Its a good idea in addition to other birth control methods.
I don’t know economics, but is there a way to buy stocks in some VPN providers? Seems like they are about to do well.
Do the porn sites already own shares in VPN companies?
Yes - a stock exchange - but Florida is only a small part of the overall market and most people will just tolerate the ban.
Yeah, but how many VPN providers are public companies? I’m guessing not very many given the reporting requirements public companies face.
VPNs aren’t illegal.
Never said they were.
That list of public companies mostly sell networking gear that you can use to configure VPNs. I don’t think that’s what the post I originally replied to was talking about. I think they were talking more about VPN service providers like NordVPN, ExpressVPN, PIA, ProtonVPN, etc.
Those are companies that provide VPNs. Every product you just listed is also a legit business.
I mean, most websites will not respect the ban, so people will use those.
That never works.
Yeah pulling out is never enough, you need to wear protection.
This is just a blatant power grab. It’s not about porn, after all if they were really concerned about nsfw sites they’d be happy with how easy the site is to regulate. If they wanted to they could potentially find a way to bring in tax revenue with it.
This is all about control and getting people used to having the government invading their privacy. Over time they’ll shift and start invading other online spaces.
oh no! imagine all the seedy porn studios in Florida that will likely be taking their tax revenue somewhere else.
Reminder that verification laws do not work and are straight up fascist.
But, isn’t Florida where they make some of the porn?..California, Florida, Nevada. The rest is the other parts of the world or people in their bedrooms or hotel bedrooms.
The law doesn’t technically ban porn. It just sets arduous requirements on distribution of porn. They can still produce it all they want, but Florida is now a difficult market to sell it in.
I expect to see a rise in European or other foreign porn sites. These will be able to safely ignore any “requirements” from Florida.
Any corporation not based in Florida can safely ignore Florida laws. This is just PH making a statement, like they have been in other states.
That gets complicated if they’re in the US. Technically, they only need to follow laws in places where they have a presence. But there are US courts that have ruled that operating a web service available in their jurisdiction counts. Then there’s all the stuff about interstate commerce and enforcement, lawsuits and criminal charges, etc. for a simple example, look up Media Matters and Twitter.
Conversely, if they are entirely outside of US jurisdiction, Florida can file (and win) lawsuits to their heart’s content. It only matters if they can collect or enforce an injunction, or at least enforce a block.
Pornhub is a Canadian company.
Seems they are officially based out of Cyprus, with a large parent (equity) company operating in multiple countries.
I’m betting at least some of those operations are in the US, although I couldn’t easily find a list to confirm. They could also have employees, such as developers, or operate data centers in the US. HQ isn’t especially meaningful in this context.
They shouldn’t of pulled out, they should of impregnated Florida. Their body, my choice right?
What you are hearing people say is “should’ve”, a shortening of “should have”. “Should of” is never correct.
Thanks lol
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What the actual fuck
“sources?”
“Delusion”
“Got it”
let me doesn’t work. I can say whatever I want in here and post it and it won’t appear because it doesn’t work. I can’t post any comments
oh it looks like it’s working again
Headline is 10/10.
The subtitle is pretty good too.
I mean, it kind of writes itself, but yeah. Sometimes the easy ones are, in fact, the best ones.
First time I heard it as a joke was from George Carlin discussing how wars are inherently phallocentric.
It’s probably a good thing not to put your dick in anything from Florida.
The old rule of don’t put your dick in crazy
Usually comes from guys who have abused their exes and want to paint their exes as the crazy person.
Or from guys who have dated crazy in the past, and now know to avoid it…
True, but also crazy women do exist and can be a nightmare to live with.
True, additionally guys have holes too.
Just saying…
There’s crazy guys, too… (Sorry if that was your point)
Very true.
Big if true
Speak for yourself
True, but the saying isn’t ‘don’t fuck crazy’, and was originally used entirely as ‘(men) don’t stick your dick in crazy (women.)’
How does that change anything they said?
Don’t generalize.
Conservatives love losing freedoms.
