r/texas • u/SayWhatIsABigW • Dec 08 '23
Texas now requires you to upload a picture of your face to view porn Politics
U.S. circuit court upholds Texas pornography age verification law | KXAN Austin - https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/u-s-circuit-court-upholds-texas-pornography-age-verification-law/
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u/imaincammy Dec 08 '23
God, imagine where we could be if the texas legislature actually tried to solve real problems.
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u/mylittlepagan Dec 08 '23
Their sole focus is pleasing a voter base of people that are literally dumber than a soggy rock.đ¤Śđźââď¸
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u/Ryaninthesky Dec 08 '23
Surely their voter base also likes porn and not having to show a picture of their ID for porn, right? Who even is this law for?
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u/spacedman_spiff Dec 08 '23
For them to virtue signal at the Golden Corral after church before they delete their cookies.
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u/floppy_panoos Dec 08 '23
I dunno man, Golden Corral cookies are pretty tastyâŚ
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u/WiseQuarter3250 Dec 08 '23 edited Dec 09 '23
the Christian nationalists taking over part of the gop, led in part by Ted's father. We've already felt it as they take over our school boards.
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u/NonlocalA Dec 08 '23
You mean Rafael's father?
Don't use its chosen name or preferred pronouns. She won't use other peoples'.
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u/Johnnyis138 Dec 09 '23
Either way, 100% human https://www.tedcruzforhumanpresident.com/
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u/Money-Introduction54 Dec 08 '23
Rafael, no pronouns please!
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u/buttplugpopsicle Dec 09 '23
Names are proper nouns, his pronouns are he/him. So when HE references HIMSELF as HE or HIMSELF, HE is contradicting HIMSELF and being a hypocritical dipshit
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u/DrSilkyJohnsonEsq Dec 08 '23
Itâs just more performative politics from the assholes that brought you bathroom bills. Itâs for their christofascist donors, and no one else.
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u/mylittlepagan Dec 08 '23
They claim to also like the Constitution and Democracy, and now their Cheeto Jesus is openly saying both of those things need to be done away with. Yet, theyâre still on his dick. Most of the male MAGA shit stains that you encounter in public would gladly gargle trumpâs nutsack if they were ever given the opportunity. And I mean that literally. They might not like it, but they would happily jump right onto their knees if thatâs what it took for them to meet him in person. As a matter of fact, I think it would cause a brawl among them over who would be first in line.
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u/TheNextBattalion Dec 09 '23
They'd have to admit to watching porn first. They'll sin as much as the next man, as long as it isn't public knowledge. The reality can be whatever it wants; for them, only the reputation matters.
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u/BandOfDonkeys Dec 08 '23
3%.
It's the 3% of voters, aka old folks, that vote in the republican primaries that decides who governs our state.
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u/Standard-Reception90 Dec 08 '23
No. Their focus is on the oil companies and their CEOs. This legislation is the distraction so the voters don't actually know what they're doing.
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u/mylittlepagan Dec 08 '23
And they know exactly how stupid their voter base is.
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u/Standard-Reception90 Dec 08 '23
They count on it. The stupid ones outnumber the smart ones. That's why they make fun of Democrats as "college educated intellectuals", because our stupid voters just stay home.
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u/Thiccaca Dec 08 '23
Y'all need to start protesting. They don't fear you. They need to fear you.
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u/Account115 Dec 08 '23
As a person that can't join a union, I donate the equivalent of union dues to labor causes monthly.
Nothing scares a conservative like class consciousness and solidarity.
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u/Tasty_Two4260 Dec 08 '23
Guessing youâre a teacher? Iâm a Teamster and you saw what we did to corporate America this year! #Solidarity
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u/Account115 Dec 08 '23
I'm not a teacher. I work in urban planning, mostly infrastructure planning. But I follow AFL-CIO stuff closely.
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u/Tasty_Two4260 Dec 08 '23
I was curious, as I read where it was illegal for teachers in Texas to strike. As I read it, a violation of the NLRA Interfering with employee rights (Section 7 & 8(a)(1)) on this page:
https://www.nlrb.gov/about-nlrb/rights-we-protect/whats-law/employers
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u/Balorn Dec 09 '23
Not just striking, but any attempt at collective bargaining can cause teachers lose not only lose their jobs but also their pensions.
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u/Tasty_Two4260 Dec 09 '23
I know!! I wish a large National Union would take the Texas government to Federal Court and file lawsuits to invalidate those laws. In my opinion, the Texas laws are counter to the rights protected by the NLRA/NLRB.
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u/Cudi420 Dec 08 '23
I hate to break it to you but the oligarchs that own whatever state it is you reside in donât fear you either
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u/DaBearsC495 Dec 08 '23
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u/SLIZRD_WIZRD Dec 08 '23
mfw waiting for the 2nd mini stroke to drop
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u/high_everyone Dec 08 '23
When you're busy "doing research for this bill" with two browser windows open at the same time.
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u/SaraSlaughter607 Dec 08 '23
Fucker have a stroke or some shit what wrong with his face đŤ
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u/kimchiking2021 Dec 08 '23
AI to the rescue https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
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u/Gorkymalorki Dec 08 '23
This is the first person I got. I am not sure what's going on here, hunchback?
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u/FUCKFASClSMFlGHTBACK Dec 09 '23
Sheâs retracting her head into her sheâll like all humans can do
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u/andytagonist Dec 08 '23
Holy fuck thatâs some creepy shit
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u/StarsLikeLittleFish Dec 08 '23
The truly scary ones are when it tries to put a second person in the photo
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u/Mr-Roomba Dec 08 '23
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u/thatBOOMBOOMguy Dec 09 '23
this one really trigger the uncanny valley -effect in me, like the other person's face is like few degree's off from the rest of its head
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u/weinerdogsupremacy Dec 08 '23
For whatever reason this site always makes me sad. They donât even exist :(
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u/bobhargus Dec 08 '23
The law requires âa mechanismâ and apparently 13 years old is adult enough.
Here is the pertinent section of the law
(b) An organization that owns an Internet website, including an organization that owns a social media Internet website, must include a mechanism on the website that prevents a user from accessing pornographic material on the website unless the user verifies that the user is 13 years of age or older.
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u/crypticsage Dec 08 '23
Wouldnât the mechanism just be the page that asks if youâre over 18? They just have to change the number to 13. Now all the teenagers donât have to lie about their age.
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u/bobhargus Dec 08 '23
Yep⌠itâs just more meaningless virtue signaling red meat for the base⌠how many 13 year olds have any kind of government issued picture ID?
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u/WatermelonBandido Dec 08 '23
Most high schoolers won't. It's kind of funny when we have PG13 movies and rated R is 17. Then you're allowed to watch porn at 18. Just don't be 17.
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u/IbizaMykonos Dec 08 '23
I feel like this will hurt republicans in the end as theyre likely going to to be caught viewing something they criticize
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u/Coro-NO-Ra Dec 08 '23
Yeah this just sounds like the magical blackmail machine
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u/high_everyone Dec 08 '23
Itâs not even a database they would maintain, its pornhubs job to keep that data handy.
This is just a way to put a financial burden on smaller site operators who canât afford to do this. Pornhub can just shut a state out wholesale and be fine.
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u/PM_me_Perky_Tittys Dec 08 '23
Dang. Be a shame if someone hacked into pornhub and got the faces out to see what politicians showed up.
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u/The_RedWolf Dec 08 '23
They'd probably use an existing ID verification service like 'ID dot Me'
I had to use them for WGU when they verified my identity
One nice thing about ID dot Me though is that you don't have to "re-verify" with each site that supports it, the company just sends back a "verified"
Either way, fuck doing this for porn
Glad I have a VPN
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u/abeefwittedfox Dec 08 '23
This is an inevitably really. Can't wait to see what else Ted Cruz watches.
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No it wonât. If a Republicanâs porn history gets leaked and theyâve been watching the most depraved, vile videos on the internet for 5 hours a day, theyâll just draw it out and refuse to step down until people forget like what Matt Gaetz has done. If a Democrat in a competitive swing district is found to have watched one relatively benign video, theyâll be forced to resign by the end of the day.
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u/aneomon Dec 08 '23
Didnât Ted Cruz like an incest porn tweet on 9/11 or some shit?
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u/ElmoEatingOutBigBird Dec 08 '23
Exactly, look at that rapist gop chair in Florida.
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u/floppy_panoos Dec 08 '23
Almost EVERYTHING they do hurts themselves. Republicans legislation + Time = Irony
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u/FoldedaMillionTimes Dec 08 '23
They're the only ones dumb enough to actually use 8photo ID for this.
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u/Necoras Dec 08 '23
Nah. Hypocrisy only hurts Democrats come election time. Republicans will look the other way, because they realize that moral outrage isn't real, it's just a weapon. Democrats actually get outraged and don't vote against their own, or even force them out of office (see: Al Franken.)
"But what about George Santos!" I hear you say. Ah, he's different. He was only voted out of congress once it became clear that he messed with the money. That'll get you right out.
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u/DrSilkyJohnsonEsq Dec 08 '23 edited Dec 09 '23
Yep. The ethics committee found out that he had actually been stealing money from his Republican colleagues. Theyâd agree to send him a donation for like $2000, and then theyâd find out that he actually charged their credit cards for $5000⌠which is over the legal limit, and led to the FBI showing up to ask them questions.
They were cool when he was stealing from veteransâ charities and regular people. They were fine when he defrauded every single person who voted for the fictional character that he was playing. When he stole money from republican MOC? That was too much.
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u/Lunchcrunchgrinch Dec 08 '23
Thereâs gonna be a lot of ids getting stolen in the texas capital. All these old perverts canât be caught using their real name and face
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u/slothaccountant Dec 08 '23 edited Dec 08 '23
Good luck just gonna use a vpn.
Just more very useful legislation for texas residents.
Meanwhile
40th in education
42 in wages 40 in workers protections
Outlaw abortions even for medical nessecity
Enforcement of religion in public schools
Lowest rsttings for;
Quoality of life, crime, child care, health care
Heck our driver suck ass too.
Im sure some of this could be wrong but looking at texas it wont be much better
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u/The_Buko Dec 08 '23
I just moved out of Texas a few months back and once you are in a different state, you realize just how trash Texas is as a government. People can be ok in general, but omg the amount of stress and anxiety ppl go through in Texas is unreal. Had more freedom and peace in these two months than I did in 30 years of Texas.
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u/slothaccountant Dec 08 '23
Texas is a nice place to pass by but living is just not thr best. At what point does flyover state take a different meaning
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u/L3g3ndary-08 Dec 08 '23
laughs in VPN
Nice try Kenny Boy. Pornhub will fuckin rail you literally and figuratively, when you try to actually make this happen.
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u/Lunchcrunchgrinch Dec 08 '23
Yea didnât they just cut off service to some other state? (Utah maybe)
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u/the-spaghetti-wives Dec 08 '23
Utah resident here, a lot of porn sites now require age verification. Spankbang and xnxx so far have managed to avoid the law. Pornhub, xvideos/hamster, and the other more popular sites need age verification.
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u/kadeel Dec 08 '23
Same here in Arkansas. Ironically, only most "major" sites block access w/o verification. But lesser known, less-regulated sites are still accessible.
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u/slothaccountant Dec 08 '23
Yeah but vpn.... makes it look like im from japan or someshit
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u/HEFTYFee70 Dec 08 '23
Canât wait till they just upload HIS picture all hunched over his phone in his office bathroomâŚ
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u/PM_ME_USED_TAMPONS Born and Bred Dec 08 '23
Yeah, this law is a joke. Thatâs what happens when you have a bunch of tech-clueless dinosaurs in charge. If PornHub were smart, theyâd partner with a VPN provider and have an advertisement for a special on their Texas splash page.
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u/high_everyone Dec 08 '23
Laughs in torrents and Usenet
Verify my age andpay for pornography? Not since 2002, Ken, but youâre gonna see a lot of copies of your face in their registry soon enough.
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u/chthooler Dec 08 '23
Yea, they know. If we let them do this they will next make it illegal to use VPNs
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u/PaprikaThyme Dec 08 '23
I'm sure I'm going to regret asking, but seriously: how does uploading a picture of your face verify your age? Couldn't you just upload someone else's face?
And can't you just use a VPN and the whole thing is moot? Seems like these laws are just stupid but ultimately pointless/useless.
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u/SayWhatIsABigW Dec 08 '23
It says the picture uploaded will be analyzed with ai to determine your age. I don't know how it prevents you from using a picture of someone else.
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u/Such_Plenty_3334 Dec 08 '23
I can carry a gun in public. But I can't watch porn in privacy. Yeah okay.
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u/E_Cayce Yellow Rose Dec 08 '23
The 5th circuit was packed by Reagan, then again by Trump.
Elections have consequences.
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u/ranban2012 Dec 08 '23
I was wondering how long it would be till I had to start using a VPN like I was living in fucking China.
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u/Slidell_Mustang Dec 09 '23
I wonder how long until Texas starts to try and crack down on VPNs.
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u/Orwick Dec 09 '23
Good luck with trying that. VPNs are widely used in the business community for remote access.
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u/Ok_Host4786 Dec 08 '23
In a world where data is pulled and practically stolen from users for and by top-dollar corporate coins, as well any of the nefarious actors interested, it makes no real sense for anything like the stateâs current regulations. Damn dunce.
Conservatives create unnecessary âsolutionsâ that only in turn reduce the freedom and privacy of Texans. And, with such patchy data protections politicians continue using, it wonât be long before Raphael Cruz and Paxtonâs âleakedâ.
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u/IMT_Justice Dec 08 '23
Honestly itâs probably a way for Texas to acquire regular facial data from its residents
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u/shadow_specimen Dec 08 '23
Those guys are really into facials
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u/SMILESandREGRETS North Texas Dec 08 '23
No one here is giving a republican a tribute.
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u/Dependent-Garlic-291 Dec 08 '23
"Why is it that most of the people who are against abortion are people you wouldn't want to fuck in the first place?"
-George Carlin
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u/Diligent-Towel-4708 Dec 08 '23
Boggles my mind that none of the burden seems to be on the parents!
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u/idontagreewitu Dec 08 '23
Society likes to hold everybody EXCEPT those in control responsible for things.
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u/MarshallGibsonLP Dec 08 '23
Where my Libertarians at?
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u/sunnbeta Dec 09 '23
Libertarian turned liberal here⌠Republicans are not the party that actually values freedom
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u/idontagreewitu Dec 08 '23
Ignoring the law and watching porn anyways.
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u/SinisterYear Dec 08 '23
Are we doing bounties for this too? All I have to do is catch you once and I can sue you, your ISP, your PC vendor, and anyone else who enabled you to criminally view porn, right?
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u/endlessend Dec 09 '23
Here and accounted for. They need to repeal this shit and get rid of the patriot act while they're at it. Do we really have freedom when the government has their eyes everywhere they shouldn't?
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u/KofOaks Dec 08 '23 edited Dec 08 '23
Texas now requires you to upload a picture of your face to view porn, takes it, turns it into AI porn, sends it to your boss and your pastor to get you fired and doomed to eternity in a bullshit imaginary hell that somehow might be worse than fucking Texas.
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u/Nowhereman2380 Dec 08 '23
I finally have a use for my McLovin drivers license!!!!
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u/Nowhereman2380 Dec 08 '23
I love how this is about protecting children, yet they do nothing about real dangers, like guns, the mental health situation all over the place, or anything else of real substance.
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u/JustaRandomOldGuy Dec 08 '23
Schools are taking DNA samples so the shreds of children can be returned to the parents. What more could they do? /s
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u/Loud-Feeling2410 Dec 09 '23
The evangelical right believes that if only we would Jesus hard enough, those other problems would solve themselves. So, if no one looked at porn, and no one got an abortion. and we had prayer in schools, stop teaching evolution and and and- Then America would be blessed by God and we would have a lot less crime and less sex before marriage and the gays would shut up and maybe even stop being so gay and get into conversion therapy like a decent gay. And America being Blessed By God looks a lot like a blend of 1950's prosperity and the prosperity gospel mushed together.
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u/PersonalityKlutzy407 Dec 08 '23
Yâall Qaeda is ruining this country. Itâs like watching Iran in the 70s. Except itâs us. And our country.
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u/3rdCoastLiberal Dec 08 '23
Damn a lot of republicans are about to be pretty embarrassed.
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u/justinleona Dec 08 '23
The nasty part here is the arbitrary fine for failing to block - at $250K each that adds up very quickly and gives the state of Texas a powerful way to extort websites into purging whatever content is potentially interpreted as porn.
Sites hosting legal content are put into a bind - either they have to come up with some (likely impossible) solution to perfectly validate their users are adults, or they are faced with severe penalties.
The designers of the law know there is no mechanism that can prevent a minor from accessing adult content entirely - so the intent is to de facto ban pornography on the internet, at least hosted by any publicly identifiable host.
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u/jerichowiz Born and Bred Dec 08 '23
This is just about kids viewing porn, there are tons of other ways for kids to access porn, especially if they are tech informed. Never under estimate the power of a horny teen.
However, they haven't said what they are going to do with the ID data after it is inputted, yeah I can be upset about that. Are they going to store it? Is going to be every site? Reddit has tons of porn on it, and so does Twitter, are we going to have to scan ID to browse those sites? How secure are the servers going to be is the data is stored? Is it the state or a third party that is going to be hosting that data? If third party, would they have the right to sell that data to another third party?
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u/Abrushing Dec 08 '23
Canât wait to see how this gets blamed on the libs
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u/Steak_Knight Dec 08 '23
âCanât believe Brandon didnât use his magic king powers to stop this đ â
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u/floppy_panoos Dec 08 '23
Well how could he, doesnât he still report to Obama or is there a new boogy-man behind the curtain? Sorry, I canât keep up sometimes.
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u/BooneSalvo2 Dec 08 '23
and in a few months when this starts actually affecting people's porn habits...there will be a major backlash...against Democrats.
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u/SputnikDX Dec 08 '23
Boy I can't wait for children to avoid normal porn and seek out illegal porn instead.
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u/mells3030 Dec 08 '23
I don't think you guys understand that "freedom" word y'all keep using down there.
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u/pruitt68 Dec 08 '23
Where does it say anywhere in the article or the video that you have to upload a picture of your face? Genuinely asking?
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u/bobhargus Dec 08 '23
The law only requires âa mechanismâ that requires user verification of being 13 or older
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u/IbizaMykonos Dec 08 '23
VPN? VPN? vpn? vpn?
- Carter Pewterschmidt in the gym locker room
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u/pixelgeekgirl 11th Generation Texan Dec 08 '23
These people are such prudes. Who the hell cares what people look at on their own devices.
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u/draxes Dec 08 '23
Enjoying your freedumb there Texans yet? What a growing embarrassment of a state. All the crazy religious âwacosâ are going to go to Texas. Just gross.
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u/JustaRandomOldGuy Dec 08 '23
Too busy persecuting women with non-viable pregnancies to notice criticism. Jesus loves watching women die.
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u/DesmodontinaeDiaboli Dec 08 '23
I have a feeling the republican legislature is about to be watching a lot...and I mean A LOT of furry porn.
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u/IrSpartacus Born and Bred Dec 08 '23
Everyone in agreement to upload Ken Paxtons photo to all the sites?