Pornhub is pulling out of Florida
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.
Someone was waiting a long time to use that title I wager
75That byline is the real gift
Starting January 1, Floridians can no longer legally come to Pornhub.
29The longer the better
23but not too long
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Never stick your dick in crazy
40Never stick your dick in another, much larger dick
7That made me think of the !vore@lemmy.ml community.
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OH realized and pulls out.
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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.
32Pornhub is Canadian
10They 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.
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But will they pull out in time?
31I 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.
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That's what the dumb ass voters in the state voted for. That's what they get.
26Better get an std check after. Florida’s crazy.
26These 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 To my knowledge no state that has implemented age verification laws have repealed the law or has the law overturned on judicial review.
21Buy VPN stonks.
20Possibly 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.
15This might be a long game to reinvigorate flash and optical media sales.
14VPNs 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.
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yeah I pulled out of Florida too
14#MeToo
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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.
14I’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.
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Someone is going to make a mint when they create a VPN that gramps can figure out how to use.
12Sadly it's going to be some nefarious VPN that results in gramps getting their bank accounts drained.
9Having lived within 100 miles of The Villages, I'm kind of OK with that.
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It's surprising that there's anything left in Florida at this rate.
11Fantastic headline, Gizmodo!
8If you don't slip it in to Florida then you don't need to worry about pulling out.
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