Originally published at: Watching porn in Lousiana now requires submitting a driver's license | Boing Boing
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The party of small government!
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In other news, sales of VPNs have risen again this year.
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For those interested in the tech behind this, it was just a matter of blocking one of a series of tubes leading into Louisiana.
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They should’ve blocked Louisiana completely. The outcry would’ve canned the law pretty quickly.
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The ‘TCP’ in ‘TCP/IP’ stands for “Tiny Cat Pipe”, right?
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It’s encouraging that the nation’s second-worst state for infant mortality is taking this sort of bold action on risks to minors.
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I wonder how many Congress critters have investments in VPN businesses.
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Do I -want- Louisiana to prove harm to minors and substantial portion (to minors?) in a tightly licensed hot broccoli rabe ‘website material?’ Then make Utah prove minor consensus? Kinda yeah! That’s freaking stakes! Your buy, {nickname for States that are special snowflakes}!
Then it’ll be like, a wild Curcurbits material series just dropped. LA don’t know Solanaceae. Utah, you’ll never guess this underground veg. group. Legumes, Rhode Island, please. Leafy Greens? Nah, new color. Daring shape.
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Many laws:
But hey - if it pisses off enough of the old people who don’t know about/how to use VPNs (use one for work, but not personally) then you might see some political backlash.
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The adults are just going to get a VPN and the minors are just going to put their parents license on the site. Who thought this would work?
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The Louisiana law defines “material harmful to minors” as:
(a) Any material that the average person, applying contemporary community standards would find, taking the material as a whole and with respect to minors, is designed to appeal to, or is designed to pander to, the prurient interest.
(b) Any of the following material that exploits, is devoted to, or principally consists of descriptions of actual, simulated, or animated display or depiction of any of the following, in a manner patently offensive with respect to minors:
(i) Pubic hair, anus, vulva, genitals, or nipple of the female breast.
(ii) Touching, caressing, or fondling of nipples, breasts, buttocks, anuses, or genitals.
(iii) Sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, bestiality, oral copulation, flagellation, excretory functions, exhibitions, or any other sexual act.
(c) The material taken as a whole lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
So what non-pornographic material will get caught up in this dragnet?
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I can see a black market for stolen IDs specifically for this coming soon.
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Louisiana has a long, ongoing fight over banning LGBTQ books under the guise of protecting minors from sexual material.
from yesterday:
and from last month:
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