Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/01/03/watching-porn-is-getting-harder-in-montana-and-north-carolina.html
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Should we bet on how long it takes for one of these databases to be hacked and the names of all of these legislators found in them?
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There’s more websites than just Pornhub and Brazzers. I suspect the rest are just ignoring the requirements and don’t care.
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As I recall, this limp half-measure is another piece of ineffective and performative surveillance policy test-marketed on Brexit Island.
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Watching porn is getting harder
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I wanna play…
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in order to enter sites that are at least 1/3 porn
is that by mass or volume?
and what does one see when the blockage appears? like some sort of state flag with a vengeful puritan emblazoned?
(wouldn’t be at all surprised if it were discovered that republicans had large investments in VPN companies while they enact these stupid laws)
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Friendly reminder that Proton VPN has a free tier and while they aren’t perfect, the Proton folks (who also put out Proton mail) have a decent record on privacy compared to a lot of other folks.
– A Virginia Resident who totally doesn’t use it for pr0n but has a friend who totally does
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Or surface area? I mean really the relevant regions occupy less than 5% of human surface area. 10% if that’s your thing.
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Just came for Pornhub eh?
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Cum again? 
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You’ll need to relaunch your VPN first.
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I’m on FetLife which is not, strictly speaking, a porn site, but rather best described as a social media site for people in the kink scene. (This is a very loose definition, of course, but works for most purposes.) People certainly post lots of pictures and even video (for the paid subscribers) that would meet most definitions of porn. Most of the content, though, tends more towards social interactions - discussions, event planning, “how to” and safety questions, mental health, pet pictures … nothing like what most people think of when they hear kink or porn.
One third? Maybe? I don’t know. I think it depends on what you see when you look at the content. I do know that none of my North Carolina friends have reported having any issues.
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Hey, that’s Mr. Beanpole!
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Well they keep trying to test-market it here, but seem unable to get past the test-legislate stage.
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Remember when it was gonna be the Great Firewall of Cameron, then the guy in charge got caught with porn on Downing St. networks? The story only lasted about half a day, then it got D-noticed into the stone age
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I wonder if any enterprising porn distributors are getting around this restriction by padding their sites with a bunch of public domain content and innocuous how-to videos.
“OK, we just posted another double-penetration video so we’re going to need a makeup tutorial and a transmission diagnostic guide pronto!”
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