Kansas Is About to Pass the Most Extreme Age Verification Law Yet
Kansas Is About to Pass the Most Extreme Age Verification Law Yet
The bill would make sites with more than 25 percent adult content liable to fines, and lumps homosexuality into "sexual conduct."
An age verification bill in Kansas that is the most extreme in the country has passed both House and Senate and is on its way to the governor’s desk. The bill will make sites with more than 25 percent adult content liable to heavy fines if they don’t verify that visitors are over the age of 18. It also calls being gay “sexual conduct,” which critics say could set up the state for more censorship of LGBT+ citizens.
I'm fucking sick of these laws. Since when was the "party of small government" all about creating literal nanny states?
141It always has been, just like how they claim to be fiscally responsible while bringing back trickle down economics to destroy government funding.
They have lied constantly for the nearly 3 decades I have been able to vote.
83They take money away from education and remove laws/rules about lying. We're at the top of a mountain of shit built by conservatives and we're going to start sinking.
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Since forever?... The party of small government is a slogan... No more true than the wings you get from drinking red bull
30Because they have never been the party of small government. You don't need to be the party of small government if you're the party of credulous rubes.
18"small government" was an euphemism for "defend rather than desegregate public services"
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Small enough to fit in your living room, bed room, computer room, doctor's office, library, kid's classroom, etc.
7It is simple. Instead of rules, it's arbitrary feelings.
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Laughing as I picture spez and company trying to figure out what percentage of reddit is porn
129I mean Reddit has been trending in the direction to remove NSFW content completely from their site. A couple more laws like this would probably give them the ammo needed to say goodbye.
30He's gonna have to run a lot more ads to get those numbers down.
17I'd wager more than 25%
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The anti gay part is the whole point. They're not protecting kids, they're protecting Christian control over kids (pay attention to who's actually doing all the child sex abuse)
119This bill is unconstitutional, but we'll have to wait and see if the insurrection-appointed SCOTUS will do their job or if this is like a gifted RV sort of ruling.
10Sure they can make being gay illegal. Now lets see them enforce it.
Armed queers bash back.
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How will verification be done? Are they making the websites foot the bill for verification, which pornhub is super against, or are they going to make a centralized device verification, like how Louisiana did, allowing its residents to access pornhub again?
How is the 25% decided? Public content or private, like a Dropbox system? 25% by file size, length (how are pictures counted here), or just per item (would a gallery or picture be the item here)?
These legislatures know NOTHING about technology and how it all works and are just doing this for censorship and LGBTQ+ discrimination.
64"Are you over 18?"
"Yep!"
28I'm 124 years old. Assuming the website lets you enter 1900 as the birth year.
12I wouldn't be so sure, in some countries they want your drivers license or credit card info lol.
There are some sites I don't use anymore because of these changes
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Going to repost this
They want to ban it nationwide
Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered
-A Promise to America", Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 5, Project 2025
52So, holding onto all those old Playboy magazines can be considered an investment. My wife can't argue that!
16Not just ban it, but completely outlaw it in the old sense of the word. Anyone who they claim "purveys" or "produces" porn could be on The List (you know the one). Of course, these terms will be defined in the broadest terms (one could likely assume they already have all the bills for this written on some legal expert's hard drive as we speak, just waiting to be delivered to whoever they want to introduce it), and will be applied to pretty much anyone that they wish gone, at any time they wish them to disappear. Did you draw something mildly NSFW in your notebook when you were 12? That's production. Did you write slashfic back in freshman year? Yup, you go on The List.
This also conveniently leaves the door open to class sex education material as "pornography", which several states have already done (these states are generally testbeds for later national propositions).
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Ah yes, more hard ad reads for Nordvpn incoming ...
35Seems pretty easy to work around.
If a porn site has 10,000 videos, just add 2,501 non porn videos (just use public domain stuff) and make a button to hide those. Scale those numbers up/down as needed.Just add a bunch of junk LLM-generated videos to pad out the content so that the number of actual porn videos remains 25% of the total. Then just provide a button to hide those AI-generated junk videos.
34No, they'd need 30,001 non-porn videos.
22Edibles and math don't mix for me, lol
Still, just host 30,001 public domain videos or let some LLM generate videos automatically to keep the ratio in check.
I'm all about malicious compliance for stupid laws like this.
7This is Ryan Creamer's time to shine.
3And this is why we need AI-generated content! Gotta pad those numbers!
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Any commercial entity that knowingly shares or distributes material that is harmful to minors on a website and such material appears on 25% or more of the webpages viewed on such website in any calendar month
(emphasis mine)
They can host as many non-porn videos as they want but it doesn't matter if people aren't watching those videos. For every webpage with porn, they'd have to force the user to visit three webpages without porn first.
5Doesn't say "viewed by humans in any calendar month", so there's still a loophole.
9In other words, you'll be forced to watch three videos that you don't want to see, in order to see one that you do.
Sounds so familiar...
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2Doesn't say how long the view time was. Just set 3 quick page redirects before rendering adult content
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Might want to check your math, 25% is the maximum 'adult content' allowed.
To use your numbers, a business with 10,000 videos would need +7,500 of them being non-porn to be under 25% and not be fined.
5Lol, yeah. Had it backwards.
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It also calls being gay “sexual conduct”
Okay, as long as it's illegal for everyone else other than asexual people to exist as well.
21Get ready for the real life lesson 😉. Mamma and Daddy are going to have to explain all sorts of stuff about birds and bees.
Daddy, what is a DP gangbang? Mom, my BF wants a threesome, is that a soda? No, we don't have sex, we only lick.
It's going to be perfect! And then those sexual retards are going to migrate to LA one day. Or maybe they go to Vegas for their wedding.
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15Seems like I have to colour in my VPN map further
15Article is pay-walled. Does it say how many legislators voted for it?
I highly doubt the democratic governor would sign this bill. Does it have enough to override a veto?
7While the Kansas state legislature is almost entirely Republican, they don't tend to override the governor's veto too frequently as they are not as lock step due to having all the power.
Without checking the numbers, this seem like the kind of thing they would let the governor's veto atand so they can use it against her in the next election.
16There is a veto-proof majority. Governor hasn't announced what she plans to do yet
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Invest in VPN stock
6IDGAF about visitors I just want the people in the porno to be of age and I don't feel like it's being adequately enforced.
3China was first. /s
1Wait, so you'll have to be over 18 to watch Zootopia or Lightyear?
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-52Oh hey, it's you again, the "Atheism and porn are ThE DeVIlS WoRk" religious nut. Nice to see that tagging system working well
24Blocked. You get the attention you crave once, but never again. One at a time.
7You will have no further chance to tell me of your lord and savior's love.
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