Fox8: Watching porn now requires age verification in Louisiana because of new law. Adult sites pull out (😏) of Virginia due to new law.

[Larry]

8 minutes ago, ixcuincle said:

as a frequent viewer of adult material living int he state of virginia how will this law affect me

 

Just now, Rocky21 said:

The bill is on the governor’s desk awaiting his signature.  If he signs it you’ll need a VPN to watch vile porny.  

 

You need to get out there and grab as much porn as you can, right now.  Because the government is coming to take it away any time now.  

 

- The NRA.  

[ixcuincle]

5 minutes ago, Rocky21 said:

The bill is on the governor’s desk awaiting his signature.  If he signs it you’ll need a VPN to watch vile porny.  

wtf

 

i only use a vpn for work. i'm not getting one just to watch naked chicks

 

****

[ixcuincle]

https://www.wired.com/story/porn-age-checks-id-laws/

 

For years, the only thing stopping people from accessing porn online has been small checkboxes: Are you over 18? Yes or No? However, legislation proposed around the world would add more robust checks. Dozens of online age-verification companies have cropped up, with multiple ways to prove you’re old enough to access sites.

 

Your age can be confirmed by credit card details, scans of your face, or, as is often proposed, checks of government ID documents, such as passports or driver’s licenses. The checks can be carried out by third-party companies, without sensitive information being passed directly to porn sites. One briefing from the European Commission details nine different methods of age verification—some sophisticated, some very low tech.

[Simmsy]

In most of these states that hate black people, I would be a catch!

[bearrock]

So wouldn't kids just swipe an ID from their parents to register? 

[Larry]

I've got an idea.  

 

I'll support any jurisdiction requiring people to register to access free speech, just as soon as the same jurisdiction requires people to register their guns.  

[Jabbyrwock]

7 minutes ago, Larry said:

I've got an idea.  

 

I'll support any jurisdiction requiring people to register to access free speech, just as soon as the same jurisdiction requires people to register their guns.  

 

Verification for porn is a kind of gun registration.

[stoshuaj]

Just looked at that map.  Funny (ironic?) that a number of southern states have some iteration of black as their go to search preference.  Of course, leave it to TN to be the outlier giving top prize to “strap on”.  Shocker I’m sure.

 

What is Md’s chosen favorite, AMSR?  Do I really want to know?

[ixcuincle]

Paul Verhoeven said he never understood why some people were more offended by the co-ed shower scene than the violence. "It is strange, but of course, Americans get more upset about nudity than ultra-violence. I am constantly amazed about that."

[PokerPacker]

1 hour ago, Jabbyrwock said:

 

Verification for porn is a kind of gun registration.

[TheGreatBuzz]

37 minutes ago, ixcuincle said:

Paul Verhoeven said he never understood why some people were more offended by the co-ed shower scene than the violence. "It is strange, but of course, Americans get more upset about nudity than ultra-violence. I am constantly amazed about that."

 

Spoiler for topic 

Spoiler

Many years ago, Buzzette and I were discussing points and she was shocked that I didn't like the lesbian twins porn.  I pointed out it was incest and asked if she thought eating out her sister was hot. 

 

To this day, she still says I have never more convincingly won an argument than that.

Edited May 2, 2023 by TheGreatBuzz

[Cooked Crack]

55 minutes ago, stoshuaj said:

What is Md’s chosen favorite, AMSR?  Do I really want to know?

That's just people making sounds. It's really lame.

 

 

[Cooked Crack]

4 hours ago, ixcuincle said:

as a frequent viewer of adult material living int he state of virginia how will this law affect me

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However, his amendments to a bill requiring porn websites to verify a person is not a minor failed the state Senate. Democrats raised concerns over data privacy saying that attempting to reign in the internet would be fruitless. 

 

Of the 819 measures the General Assembly sent to Youngkin during the regular session that ended in late February, the governor signed 738 into law and proposed amendments to 78. Some of the changes lawmakers took take up Wednesday were small or technical; for other measures, Youngkin sought a more wholesale rewrite.

https://www.wtvr.com/news/virginia-politics/virginia-general-assembly-vet-day-legislators-considering-youngkin-amendments-april-12-2023

 

It seems like it died? Virginians can look at porn in privacy for now.

[purbeast]

1 hour ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

 

Spoiler for topic 

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Many years ago, Buzzette and I were discussing points and she was shocked that I didn't like the lesbian twins porn.  I pointed out it was incest and asked if she thought eating out her sister was hot. 

 

To this day, she still says I have never more convincingly won an argument than that.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news and to spoil it for you, but they aren't twins in real life.

[TheGreatBuzz]

11 minutes ago, purbeast said:

I hate to be the bearer of bad news and to spoil it for you, but they aren't twins in real life.

 

Really?  I've seen some that look freaking identical.   Either way, the premise is ****ed up.  Kinda like the whole "daddy" thing.  

[Renegade7]

Think I've brought this up before, but I seriously hope there's language in the bill that removes all the authentication data after the sessions is over.

 

Otherwise we're trusting porn sites to hold PII information on individuals tied to the porn they watch and hoping no one tries to take from them via hacking attempts.

 

These sites won't stand a chance against any state sponsored threat, can we even confirm this combination of data is NOT allowed to be shared with our own government and used strictly for blocking?

 

I mean, sure, installing Tor Browser may be easiest way to get around this, but this feels like a terrible implementation no matter what the sugar coated end goal is.

 

Should kids watch less porn? Yes.  Is this the best way to go about it? Debatable, I'd say no since it impacts adults as well.

Edited May 2, 2023 by Renegade7

[PokerPacker]

6 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

Think I've brought this up before, but I seriously hope there's language in the bill that removes all the authentication data after the sessions is over.

 

Otherwise we're trusting porn sites to hold PII information on individuals tied to the porn they watch and hoping no one tries to take from them via hacking attempts.

 

These sites won't stand a chance against any state sponsored threat, can we even confirm this combination of data is NOT allowed to be shared with the government and used strictly for blocking.

 

I mean, sure, installing Tor Browser may be easiest way to get around this, but this feels like a terrible implementation no matter what the sugar coated end goal is.

 

Should kids watch less porn? Yes.  Is this the best way to go about it? Debatable, I'd say no since it impacts adults as well.

Not sure how much Tor you've used, but streaming video from it has not been kind to me.

[Renegade7]

3 minutes ago, PokerPacker said:

Not sure how much Tor you've used, but streaming video from it has not been kind to me.

 

Tor Browser seems to be fine, but some things just lead to too many questions (I see no point of going to Google via Tor, they clearly hate it).  Even running Tor in the background as a daemon and telling Firefox to use it hasn't been problem for me up until recently, but honestly, I only use tor for specific reasons so I always figured some of those site *cough* knew that.

 

Edit: some sites clearly better then others, and this is with respect to the security settings as well (Tor Browser basically has noscript built into it, and any messing with that can get in the way of stuff quickly depending on what you doing)

Edited May 2, 2023 by Renegade7

[Larry]

8 minutes ago, Renegade7 said:

Should kids watch less porn? Yes.  Is this the best way to go about it? Debatable, I'd say no since it impacts adults as well.

 

I guarantee you that the people passing it absolutely hope it blocks adults, too.  

 

[Renegade7]

Just now, Larry said:

 

I guarantee you that the people passing it absolutely hope it blocks adults, too.  

 

 

Oh fa sho..."think of the children" is the OG "Thoughts and Prayers"...

[Jabbyrwock]

2 hours ago, TheGreatBuzz said:

 

Really?  I've seen some that look freaking identical.   Either way, the premise is ****ed up.  Kinda like the whole "daddy" thing.  

 

Parallel universe porn is really gonna freak you out then.

 

[Califan007 The Constipated]

14 hours ago, China said:

...no more Mormon porn?

 

Try saying that fast 5 times lol...

[PokerPacker]

2 minutes ago, Califan007 The Constipated said:

 

Try saying that fast 5 times lol...

After the first time, I just hear "more Mormon Porno" 😏

[tshile]

On 3/10/2023 at 9:55 AM, purbeast said:

Yeah I really have no clue how this is going to work.

 

Even from a technical point of view.  I mean state government websites are some of the worst ones out there.  And now they plan on having some kind of authentication web app widget type thing (kind of like how you can use Google or Facebook to log into a bunch of sites) that they will build, and then integrate with EVERY SINGLE porn site out there?

 

As a software engineer myself with nearly 20 years experience, I see some HUGE technical issues with this lol.  

i want to be in the room when the people who support this find out the ipv6 rollout has made it impossible to determine geolocation off IP. 

[CousinsCowgirl84]

If the website wants to be law compliant they can block connections from tor and from known proxy addresses.

 

The security issue with trusting a porn site is legitimate, but at the same time the local sex shop asks for ID, why shouldn’t the online one do that as well.