Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas to object to a state law that requires the company to verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the site.

Texas residents who visit the site are met with a message from the company that criticizes the state’s elected officials who are requiring them to track the age of users.

The company said the newly passed law impinges on “the rights of adults to access protected speech” and fails to pass strict scrutiny by “employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’s stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors.”

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As a Texan, I’ve been using a VPN for about a decade now, so this doesn’t affect me in the slightest.

EDIT: Please don’t take this to mean that I don’t believe this is, or should be, the norm. Our state government has overstepped its bounds many times over, and the quality of life in this state has done nothing but go downhill since the Repuglicunts came into power almost 30 years ago. I’ve done nothing but vote for anyone but the incumbent right-wing fascists since I was old enough to vote.

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Spoken like a true texan.

🤡

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I got mine is a very texas thing. Ask a texan about a rule they don’t like and they’ll tell you how they cheat the rule.

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FTMs are trans men.

Also what did I just read???

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I mean if Texans have no porn, what use is their cock for? It just gets in the way. I assume that they will add a travel ban so men can’t fly to other states to watch porn? Maybe make it illegal to help a brother out and drive them to Alabama or something to watch porn?

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I have seen that on interdimensional cable

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Wat

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It’s just an ad for the cockloper2000. Restrictions may apply. Chop responsibly. Come frutas y verduras.

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thank you

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please come to my house

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If porn is the only thing stopping someone from raping another person, then their problems are a whole lot deeper than porn

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Religion can sometimes prevent mass murderers, so you’re absolutely right

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So? If porn is the only thing that stopped me from getting raped, then my problem is solved. I’d call that a win.

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The perspective we need

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Thank you. This had to be said. Our culture is gravely ill…

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I agree with you. However, that’s oversimplifying the matter. I don’t think every case in which “porn helped prevent a rape” has porn as the one and only reason.

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Yes. But not the problems of the victim.

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While true it still is stopping them. I don’t really care that much of a person is intrinsically a good person or not I care what their action’s are.

Question: what do you call someone capable of the act of rape that has never raped anyone? Answer: normal.

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Well said. In a world without stop signs, traffic lights, laws and judges, the people who think they’re the most wholesome may otherwise be the most vicious perpetrators.

We like to think being a good person is an innate thing. Truth is, hatred, jealousy, lust, anger, murder, rape, violence - they’re all human nature. Every single person reading this comment is capable of murder if the set of circumstances required it. Societal conditioning (including education), the environment you’re raised in, social punishments, the threat of lack of freedom, and learned introspection are the factors preventing people from doing these things.

If you’re the nicest person someone has met, then you lucked out, but it has very little to do with your ‘true nature.’ One caveat: some people seem to be born with a predisposition towards violence. Not many are born with a predisposition to anti-violence. Anti-violence is as innate in humans as the English language. Nobody’s born with it, but if you’re raised with it then you do it mostly subconsciously. If anti-violence was a common function of human DNA then we’d all have been eaten by lions. Just to illustrate it further, even plants innately use violence (poisons) as an anti-predation mechanism, although they (probably) aren’t conscious.

I can’t count the number of times in AA and NA I heard stories about people not knowing it wasn’t ‘normal’ to get fucked up and beat their spouse until they were out of their parents house.

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Indeed!

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Showing once again the disconnect between lawmakers and the public they are meant to serve.

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There isn’t just pornhub in Texas!

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Doed the article not link to the study?

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Interestingly, according to the article, the biggest effect is in 15-19 year olds; which are the people the law is intended to bar from accessing porn. Granted, I have no idea how good the underlying study that article is based off of is.

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The ones that most definetely know how to use a vpn…

It’s gonna be the boomer politicians that are big mad and can’t figure out a work around.

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The ones that most definetely know how to use a vpn…

There are plenty of 15-19 year olds who are good with computers, but also plenty who aren’t

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Most browsers have built-in VPNs. They can still watch their sisters.

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Texas loves to use words like “freedom” and “liberty”, and make them synonomus with their values. Then they pass legislation to force women to give birth, and they ban porn.

Like… “y’all” really are fucking stupid down there (at least the conservatives.)

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That’s why they say “Don’t make fun of Texas, it’s not nice to pick on retards.”

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There was an article rating actual freedom in different states and they came in dead last.

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@Lucidlethargy @MicroWave

I refuse to drive through Texas and I do not do layovers in Texas on the grounds that their supreme court supports road side cavity searches by law enforcement. Nothing Texas for me.

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