• DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    5 months ago

    The whole porn ban thing is probably my all-time favorite example of conservatives voting against themselves.

    Meanwhile, in California, I can watch all the porn I want without registering myself in a database and walk down the street to the weed store. And the women in my life still have rights over their own bodies.

    So I guess Democrats are actually the party of freedom.

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      B- b- but, California b-b-bad! 🥺 Don’t you see how oppressed you are? You’re really oppressed out there. 🥺

      • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2·
        5 months ago

        California is bad for voting to keep prison slavery and refusing to solve the housing crisis with a council housing system much like the UK used to have.

        • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 months ago

          Perfection is the ultimate enemy of good. I’d rather be in a place like California than some red state where I have to upload my ID to look at boobs.

    • Pacattack57@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 months ago

      It’s all relative. Lots of personal freedom, taxed like a mother fucker.

      As it should be honestly but there are many people that don’t see it that way and view taxation as a form of oppression.

        • zildjiandrummer1@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 months ago

          I don’t think the above commenter is saying GOP isn’t worse, but having lived there for a few years and since moved away, it’s taxed quite a bit more than other states. You definitely get a lot more out of it, so it’s just that tradeoff. Either you pay little taxes and have to pay separately for private things to do everything yourself (good for rich people, bad for everyone else), or you pay more taxes but have way more public services.

  • mke@programming.dev
    2·
    5 months ago

    Whenever someone says, “who cares, proton VPN is free,” I get a bit sadder. If Proton ever drops the free tier, honestly? I’ll understand. Because God knows, seeing people who can’t be fucked to give a damn about open access to information using costly infrastructure to watch their shitty porn, I might’ve just cut it already.

    • jaybone@lemmy.world
      3·
      5 months ago

      Idaho is starting a registry for at-risk men with erections, to prevent impure thoughts. You need to send a picture of your dick, where it will be validated by an evangelical priest.

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      2·
      5 months ago

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
    1·
    5 months ago

    Fortunately, this is easy to work around, just get a VPN hosted in a didn’t different state or country.

    We have something similar here in Utah, so I have a WiFi network that is always connected to a VPN in a neighboring state. If something isn’t accessible, I just swap WiFi networks and I’m good.

  • Aussieiuszko@aussie.zone
    1·
    5 months ago

    Soon they’ll start recording you jerking it to cross reference with previous sessions as identity confirmation.

    • Goun@lemmy.ml
      2·
      5 months ago

      Well, they know what parts of what videos you watch, your favorite keywords, time/days patterns, location, I’d say they can train AI on that data

      • Comment105@lemm.ee
        1·
        5 months ago

        ChatGPT will be drawing conclusions from the data like “Subject is likely a tipthumbing twister (86.436% confidence) with content dependent high frequency intervals (94.738% confidence)”

        It’ll analyze things like minor mouse movements, microphone audio, and use that wifi radar trick.

    • latenightnoir@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      Can you imagine, training rec algos for porn sites on intensity of movement and facial expressions…

      Edit: if this ever happens (and I’m 85% convinced it will in some way), I’ll just start crankin’ to financial spreadsheets and medication specs, keep’em guessing.

      • Rusty@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        It’s impossible to ban all VPNs. And even if they somehow do it, you can get a VPS(virtual private server) from one of the cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) and host your own vpn service (OpenVPN, Algo, Vultr). You don’t need to know a lot about it, there are step-by-step guides for it.

      • iowagneiss@midwest.socialEnglish
        0·
        5 months ago

        They’ll ultimately just have to cut off the US Internet from the rest of the world, right? As long as we can access other countries with more freedom, we can enjoy that level of freedom on the Internet. Or am I not understanding how the Internet works (entirely possible)?

        • redhorsejacket@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 months ago

          If it makes you feel any better, you can rest assured that Capitol Hill doesn’t know how the Internet works either.

          • imvii@lemmy.caEnglish
            0·
            5 months ago

            " And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material." - Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens

            • deathbird@mander.xyz
              1·
              5 months ago

              To be fair, at this late date, the tubes analogy isn’t that bad. I forget what point he was trying to make though.

  • ragebutt@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    0·
    5 months ago

    This is pretense to intrude on other things and more importantly remove the ability to browse pornography anonymously, which is dangerous. I would never use an account to browse a porn site because why would I ever want that data linked back to me? Look at the government right now. You watch a gay or trans porn video and in a few years that could be grounds for never being able to have certain types of jobs or worse, being deemed a “miscreant”

    If this was truly about protecting children they would encourage open dialogue on sex in homes and increase inclusive sex education. This is evidence based. It would still be necessary even with this nonsense because obviously vpns exist, as well as amateur run sites, sites run from outside of the USA, torrents, etc that don’t give a shit about us laws requiring age verification and will show all kinds of obscenely hardcore videos

  • slumlordthanatos@lemmy.world
    0·
    5 months ago

    Me: This is America.

    Pornhub: This content is not available in your state due to ID verification legislation.

    My VPN: This is Germany.

  • Eddbopkins@lemmy.world
    0·
    5 months ago

    That’s what you voted for. You want republican rule taking away your freedoms. Well now you Floridains have what you wanted and voted for. Don’t be mad you made your bed and dont like the sheets.