The end game here is to require ID for social media in order to suppress dissent. This is an easy first step due to the longstanding controversy surrounding pornography.
It's all about control.
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The end game here is to require ID for social media in order to suppress dissent. This is an easy first step due to the longstanding controversy surrounding pornography.
It's all about control.
Social media has mostly divided and isolated us. Twitter and some other platforms have been useful communications channels during unrest. But there could be other forms of communication just for that, since it's all owned by billionaires now anyway, we need to stop imagining them as reliable tools.
The end game here is to require ID for social media in order to suppress dissent.
in 7 days, that's what australia will have.
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Never thought I would live to see this day. Utterly pathetic. I remember even 20 years ago online censorship was extremely taboo.
Making it easy for normies to get online was a massive blunder.
Making it easy for normies to get online was a massive blunder.
Finally we're starting to connect the dots.
Once the Disney-crowd enters the picture, it's all over.
Children browsing the ugliest part of the dark web in 3... 2... 1...
And on the flip side, occasional SEO fuckups cause random terms to show porn image results
For example, I was searching for millimetre wave cell towers on duckduckgo a while back, I typed "MM wave cell tower" and saw a whole bunch of massive tiddies on the standard filtering setting. They fixed this a week after me discovering it however, so if you were hoping to see tits from searching telco infrastructure, I suppose you're outa luck.
Not to mention that half of all subreddits is porn. So easy to access.
Whole lot of unmoderated ones too, so there's lots of unfiltered porn
Fortunately lawmakers think all internet porn is on PornHub and that you find it by going to w-w-w dot yahoo dot com and typing "sex video" or "naked ladies" in the search thing.
The only porn they have experience with are polaroid photos that they got from a friend who knows a guy who makes tasteful art for clients with "particular tastes."
Lawmakers don't watch porn. They prefer to get it straight from the source, right at Little Saint James.
Don't kid yourself. Anti-porn lawmakers know that there are like 4 big porn sites and if you can shut down access to those ones, it is a huge step towards their goals.
But in other news, VPNs are now really popular for some reason.
I wouldn't put it past these lawmakers to be investors in VPN companies, so they can make money off of these laws.
You can still hold up a picture of Norman Reedus to bypass age checks right?

Watch them retreat once Grindr states that due to increasing safeguards and transparency, all of their files will be released to the public.
If this doesnt make people stop using those sites, nothing will. :)
And yeah, like others have said, its of course a system that will be used to control people and remove semi-anonymity from the web.
Everyone who ever submits for age verification will have their information stolen. It is a matter of when, not if.
Oui Oui, on my face...
I'll end up becoming an artist and drawing my own porn before I give my ID to a website to view it.
All this actually does is push people to porn sites outside of Missouri's jurisdiction and/or sites that don't give a fuck about being "legitimate businesses" or whatever. It's effectively prohibition and the outcome will be the same.
This shit never actually makes anyone safer, it just draws more normal users to seedier parts of the internet.
🤔 I'm not sure that lawmakers really understand what they're up against. If most VPN locations all eventually require government ID for porn, then some people will likely seek porn from places/networks that are... Less legitimate.
Just posting on social media using your face to speak against the state in México gives you the privilege of being doxxed on national TV by the president, I can't imagine what they would do with something like this
Keep the downvotes coming, I live here and you don't have any idea if you really believe Morena is left leaning in any way or form
Is there any organized fight against this? I feel like open access to porn is something people can get behind (pun intended).
People could literally put porn in everything until it's reversed and put their red state into porn overload. They could slip porn between the pages of the newspaper,or drop a copy of bad babysitters 5 in every DVD player in best buy at the same time. They could mass mail stills from 2 girls 1 cup, goetse, and blue waffle to their Congress people. They can wear the raunchiest t-shirts they can find and pack a town hall. These assholes already created a climate where woman are (understandably) even more afraid to have sex, now they want to lock down porn too. I'm not a degenerate because I watch porn; I'm a degenerate because I in ironically enjoyed Spongknob Squarenuts. But degenerate or not, I believe freedom of inquiry is important and I want to know exactly what she If you are gonna strip people of their economic output, abuse workers, stifle culture and art, etc, you at least have to give people a blowoff valve somehow. Reading the Bible after a double shift at work isn't gonna get anyone hard except maybe JD Vance and it probably still comes second to furniture warehouse ads.
Fuck these assholes.