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[–] [email protected] 146 points 4 months ago (14 children)

I had to travel to Austin for work a few weeks ago. Got off the plane, checked into the hotel, took a shower, decided to use mother nature’s melatonin to help with the jet lag… then, boom. Upload your driver’s license.

So I had visited some sites that were hosted outside US and didn’t give a fuck about Texas’ stupid laws.

These laws are not only authoritarian, they’re fucking useless.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 4 months ago (4 children)

I assume this is the "small government" party doing this?

(I'm not an American)

[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Republicans, which yeah. They like to talk about “small government” when it comes to billionaires and taxes, it really, that’s about it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

And guns. Can't forget the guns.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes. They want "small government" when the law affects them, but "law and order" when it punishes someone else who annoys them.

It's childishness we've come to be accustomed to, thanks to lead-brained 70-year-olds who are falling into legit cognitive decline... but still have the numbers to be a formidable opponent at the polls on election day.

Also, their dicks don't work anymore without a blue pill, so they may as well take away the consensual naked fun of Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z (18+) people right?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Small so it can sneak into all their citizen's lives.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What's worse: Reputable sites that comply with U.S. laws (such as participants being 18+ and filming of their own free will) are effectively forced out, while questionable site carry on.

The likelyhood of seeing abuse victims or underage in Texas goes up, not down.

If they truly cared about protecting minors, they'd see the flaw in their law and rectify it. Of course, we all know (not through cynicism but cold repeated behavior) that political conservatives do not care about minors and care far more about punishing consenting adults.

This law is a step toward the latter.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

You: (bring facts and logic)

TX Republicans: "A witch! They're a witch! Burn them!"

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[–] [email protected] 92 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (3 children)

Honestly, this feels like a canary in a coalmine. A coalmine that we've known to be on fire, but a canary nonetheless.

12 states total. That's like a quarter of the country.

2025 is gonna be a wild ride..

[–] [email protected] 51 points 4 months ago

Ironically their leader pays porn stars to have sex with him which obviously is not a problem for their voters.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Just imagine how angry everyone is going to be when they can't masturbate the pain of Present Day away

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Ok What is the canary wearing?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago

Oh step-canary!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I believe it's just stuck in the dryer.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Enjoy that freedom!

Never lost that backwards, repressed, puritanical, "we come to the new world to be more dogmatic" prude streak.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Land of the VPN?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Banning porn nationwide is part of Project 2025's plan. defeatproject2025.org

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Republicans plotting in the open to install an authoritarian theocracy? Sounds serious!

So when will democrats drop gun control considering this imminent threat?

Armed queers bash back.

SocialistRA.org

[–] [email protected] 44 points 4 months ago

Conservatism / Religiosity is a plague that's been retarding our species since the dawn of man.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 4 months ago (6 children)

This is part one of the religious rights plan to go after porn sites and their patrons. Don’t give them your ID. If they get power, it will come back on you.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 4 months ago (5 children)

Funny thing is....do people think Pornhub is the only porn site on the internet or something? That if they make Pornhub shut down that all the porn will magically disappear? Fucking LOL. Sure, there's a good idea guys. It's not like there aren't a billion other porn sites on the internet that couldn't give a shit less about US age verification laws.

All this will do is drive people away from the most popular porn sites that at least have something in place even if it isn't very good and drive them to any number of other sites where they'll pick up all sorts of malware on their devices and probably finding even more of the porn-of-questionable-legality that these bills were meant to stifle in the first place.

Fire hot, water wet, teenagers are gonna find porn. It's embedded in their DNA. Don't believe me? Ask any teenager in the 80s about going into the woods to find a stash of porn magazines. We weren't told this shit. It's just like we...knew. Basic instinct. We somehow just knew there was porn in the woods and on scrambled cable TV channels at like 4 in the morning. Porn is eternal. And as long as it's out there, teenagers are going to find it.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Pornhub is just good about making news about them, raises their profile and perception as the main porn site.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's not just pornhub. There are already a handful of others closing off service as well.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

And for each one of those, two that don't give a shit about age verification will pop up to take it's place. Pornhub could close today and it would be replaced with hubofporn and pornohubs dot com by lunchtime, hosted in some country like the Isle of Man or something.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Also, porn sites can just white label their UX/content kinda like how there's a million pirate Bay proxies

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago (1 children)

More of a stampede than a creep these days.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes, I worry we're entering the exponential curve, with the new effort to put ten commandments in schools

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 4 months ago

Oh yes the same Republicans that want to save the children also want to marry them..

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago (1 children)

A blog post from Pornhub said that its latest locations for shutdowns are Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky and Nebraska. The site said it would end operations in those states in July 2024. The website closed in Texas last week, and has also blocked access to its site in Arkansas, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, and Virginia in response to similar state legislation.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'm not surprised to see any of those states on the list.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Time to invest in VPN companies..

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago (1 children)

As far as they know I’m from the Netherlands.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

vpn stonks go up

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

XVideos will get more popular.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I just tested with my VPN and indeed xvideos doesn't give a shit if you're in Texas.

The A record for xvideos resolves to the Netherlands so that's probably why they don't give a shit.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

So, I have a pretty alright VPN provider, but I've been looking for a self-hosted solution to allow me to say "Hey, if you're trying to hit www.domain.com, go through this VPN tunnel instead" but still run everything else straight through. Lots of options exist, I have one that would be perfect that we utilize at my company, but I haven't found a good solution that doesn't utilize enterprise level pricing.

Anyone got any tips on that front?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

You can use foxyproxy (browser extension) with SOCKS5 proxies to ssh tunnels to various hosts based on the URL pattern. Maybe too kludgey for your use case.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Tinyproxy

https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/releases

Free Open source Upstream Http/s, socks4/5, direct redirection per site/URL/domain with regex. Can set default upstream proxy for everything else.

Invisible proxy Reverse proxy

Command line / simple text config

It's in your distros repo

It's available in termux.

It works.

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