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- news@lemmy.world
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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While Pornhub pulling out of Florida (US) may not be the end of the !world@lemmy.world, the underlying trend of pornography criminalisation for “modesty” can easily translated into sexual control and control of sex.
As we all know by now, sexual control is gendered against women and queers, racialised, et al.
Control of sex on the other hand is well substrated in Anti-Choice or bodily autonomy-denying discourse as well as population control for classist, racist etc. motives.
Since when is Florida scared of sex? Since it hates minorities. (IMO)
further, paradoxically, denying access to porn puts women in more danger. most porn consumers will probably just get a vpn and roll with it. but enough of them will translate their frustration into violence against women for it to be a problem. we know this because we’ve seen it before. sex work is degrading, dehumanizing, and exploitative, but banning it consistently makes it worse, not better, for the people most endangered by it.
Conservatives love losing freedoms.
“Welcome to the club.” - a Texan
The milf and step sister markets are about to take a hit
So it can finish on FL’s face?
Headline is 10/10.
I mean, it kind of writes itself, but yeah. Sometimes the easy ones are, in fact, the best ones.
First time I heard it as a joke was from George Carlin discussing how wars are inherently phallocentric.
It’s probably a good thing not to put your dick in anything from Florida.
The old rule of don’t put your dick in crazy
Usually comes from guys who have abused their exes and want to paint their exes as the crazy person.
True, but also crazy women do exist and can be a nightmare to live with.
True, but the saying isn’t ‘don’t fuck crazy’, and was originally used entirely as ‘(men) don’t stick your dick in crazy (women.)’
True, additionally guys have holes too.
Just saying…
Big if true
Very true.
Don’t generalize.
Republicans hate the free market
I mean, yeah, otherwise they’d want regulations that prevent it from being manipulated by individual rich people, but they have always been against anti-monopoly regulation and other protective regulations.
“Free market” doesn’t mean free from regulation, it means free from interference in the supply and demand of the product. But there’s still a need to prevent other forces from interfering with supply, including from those participating in the market. If a single company prevents any competition from entering the market, that is what’s not “free market”.
Does anyone know if something changed with PH in Texas? It used to require a VPN and had a notification of the new Texas age verification law, but now I’m back to being able to browse it without a VPN.
Nope, still blocked for me.
Pornhub should come out with their own vpn service as a fuck you to the gop. Because while they may not “service” certain states, I’d bet those citizens still use pornhub and other sites.
Don’t want them to ban vpns
Just curious, but how would that be enforced?
It’s good to be a VPN service these days. I bet business is up.
They can probably include it with PH Premium.
Good.
So crazy how floridians are able to get legislation like this passed, but can’t do anything to help their legions of hicks living in trailer parks.
The legions of hicks love this kind of virtue signaling oppression and don’t mind that they’re stuck in a trailer park. Priorities.
It doesn’t even manage to block access to porn. For god’s sakes you’d have to block the entire Internet.
I probably shouldn’t say that or they’ll get ideas. It’s all performative.
But it’s literally the penis-shaped state!
The penis is flaccid.
If I found myself in Florida, I’d pull out before I finish too.
On my tits…whaaaat?
Hello VPN.
Probably easier to just leave Florida.
