2mo ago

Pornhub is pulling out of Florida

gizmodo.com Pornhub Is Pulling Out of Florida

Starting January 1, Floridians can no longer legally come to Pornhub.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/35195650

At the dawn of the new year, Pornhub will leave Florida. Thanks to a harsh new age verification law that takes effect on January 1, the porn giant will no longer do business in the sunshine state. The law mirrors similar laws passed in other Republican led states where Pornhub has stopped doing business.

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2mo ago

Pornhub Is Pulling Out of Florida

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Someone was waiting a long time to use that title I wager
- That byline is the real gift
  Starting January 1, Floridians can no longer legally come to Pornhub.
- The longer the better
  
  but not too long
- Pornhub pulls out of Texas over state law forcing age verification of watchers (March 2024)

Never stick your dick in crazy
- OH realized and pulls out.
- Never stick your dick in another, much larger dick
  
  That made me think of the !vore@lemmy.ml community.

The dumbest thing about these laws is that all they accomplish is sabotaging American porn companies. Foreign companies have no reason to follow these laws and there's no way to stop people from going to them instead.
- Pornhub is Canadian
  
  They have a footprint and servers in the US, which makes them subject to US law. If they shut that down, they could ignore this law, which is frankly more likely than them complying.
- Isn't the intention to sabotage US porn companies?
  
  All republican policies are intended to sabotage the US in some way, since that's the soft form of warfare the Kremlin pays the Republicans to wage.

But will they pull out in time?
- I think they're struggling to stay hard, honeslty. Too many drinks and wondering wtf they're doing in Florida, anyway.
  Time to finish her off out of common decency, pull out, and just leave.

Better get an std check after. Florida’s crazy.

That's what the dumb ass voters in the state voted for. That's what they get.

These laws are next to impossible to repeal once in place. To my knowledge no state that has implemented age verification laws have repealed the law or has the law overturned on judicial review.

Buy VPN stonks.
- Possibly hard drive stocks too. If somehow, some way VPNs are banned in these states, you still might be able to ship an encrypted hard drive full of porn to someone.
  
  This might be a long game to reinvigorate flash and optical media sales.
  
  Vpns are used for business too they won't be banned
  
  VPNs and other traffic redirection are so widely used in business that I don’t know how they could do that on a state by state basis.
  For example, how is a sysadmin supposed to manage cloud machines without SSH, which can easily be used to circumvent content restrictions.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-age-verification-pornography-1.7121219
Boy, I can't wait for Poilievre to follow suit like the fucking moron he is.
- I’m not in favour of that law, but I could abide it if the age verification is done in a reasonable and secure way. Even the secure ways don’t protect against a kid borrowing an unrestricted device.
  I have no faith that will happen though. More likely what will happen is you’ll have to send your id to the porn websites and they’ll send it to a third party company with nebulous privacy requirements and your porn browsing history will be available to anyone with money.
  
  I've got no interest in having to verify my identity to watch porn online... Fuck that.

yeah I pulled out of Florida too
- #MeToo

Someone is going to make a mint when they create a VPN that gramps can figure out how to use.
- Sadly it's going to be some nefarious VPN that results in gramps getting their bank accounts drained.
  
  Having lived within 100 miles of The Villages, I'm kind of OK with that.

It's surprising that there's anything left in Florida at this rate.

Fantastic headline, Gizmodo!

If you don't slip it in to Florida then you don't need to worry about pulling out.

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