• Horsey@lemmy.world
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      She’s a slim margin democrat governor. She might be calculating that placating this may end up better than letting the state house overrule her with something worse. Many here are also prudes, unfortunately.

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      Swing state dems think running as Republican light is the way to win over voters, rather than push their own strategy.

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        Its kind of insane. The whole reason trump is a thing is that the slightly reasonable repubs don’t have a choice, as opposed to the rightoids “”" best"“” choice being a Mitt Romney type.

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    Me visiting me in 1998:

    “So, yeah, the United States has fallen to fascism, it’s all over but the shouting. Donald Trump is the President for the second time. Yes, that Donald Trump. Censorship is the rule of the day and the only major corporation to stand against it, taking a hit to their own profits, is the internet’s largest focal point for porn, a sort of hub for porn.”

    “You are clearly demented. Get the fuck out of my house old man.”

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      I wouldn’t really describe complying with a law as taking a stand against it. Pornhub blocks all US states which require ID verification.

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        Which is ridiculous if you think about it. The whole point of a website is that the visitor goes to them. Unless their servers are located in a place that place should have no jurisdiction or authority over them whatsoever.

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          Yeah, I their their proposed option of using standardized tags for content blockers for parents to use is much more sensible. But this law isn’t about protecting children, it’s about control and seeing what they can get away with. With the stir about transgender people being classified as nihilistic violent extremists the idea of seeing discussion of LGBT topics online as “obscene” and requiring submitting your ID to do is not far fetched.

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        They are not complying with the law, if they were complying with the law they would be doing age verification and collecting everyone’s information in a masturbator base.

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          They are not displaying content that requires age verification in those jurisdictions. That’s compliant.

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            Exactly, they are not doing the age verification. What would you have them do?

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              I’m not “having them do” anything, I’m saying that if you don’t serve content that requires age verification in jurisdictions where that content requires age verification then that’s complying with the law. That’s it.

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                They came out against it publicly and then stopped providing their service rather than complying. I do not know what else you could ask of them. If that continued to provide pornography despite the law without the age verification they would face massive civil penalties that could get enforced through courts, and possible massive criminal penalties, and the prosecutors in those shit holy States would love it.

                I do not think the pouring companies have done anything wrong. None should contribute to the masturbator base. It is a betrayal of our freedom and should be recognized as such and met with contempt and ridicule.

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                  I don’t believe they are doing anything wrong. I never said they’re doing anything wrong.

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      “Wow, a second time? He must have done really well the first time!”

      Yeah, not really. He tanked the economy into nearly a recession, then over 1M people eventually died from a respiratory virus, he lost re-election, failed to lead a coup, then was convicted of 34 felonies but the judicial department slow-walked until he was re-elected again. Yeah. 2020s have been rough.

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    In other news plumbers are moving out of Arizona and into Nevada where the clogged sinks are more prominent now.

    When interviewed one plumber explained how women’s falling hair and men’s sperm coming together as the principal clugged sink reason made their job, and I quote “easy as fuck, you just pull the hair with a wire and all the cum stuck hair plug comes out in one move” ending with a final comment, and I quote “fuck”.

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    Can someone please ELI5:
    Why does every site on the web have to adjust for every jurisdiction in the world? Shouldn’t each jurisdiction just be responsible for filtering/censoring the web for their citizens based on whatever batshit idea their leaders have?

    Actually, I suspect the answer is quite easy: this way, they force other people to have to pay for their batshit crazy ideas instead of themselves.

    Is there another explanation I’m missing?

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    Fucking hell… This is how I find out? Assumed AZ would be safe from this bullshit with Hobbs. Guess not. Might be time to just run the VPN router side from now on.

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    welp good thing Pink Visual shut down in Tucson, AZ cause…yeah that would have been awkward.

    Food was great there though, lunches were always decent.

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        Pink Visual. They were located in an undisclosed decent sized building on Speedway or Pima, can’t remember which it’s been awhile since I lived there.

        They primarily focused on DVD content, they had several sides and an affiliate program named TopBucks. They were owned by this very eccentric dude from Vietnam who drove a massively “blinged out” hummer that would be constantly parked out front. Thing is…only like a handful of people actually saw him in the building. it was weird. I never met the dude and I worked there for like 3 or 4 years.

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      I don’t think it would be a problem. My state has a sports betting company HQ but sports betting is still illegal in my state.