Papers please: for millions of Americans, accessing online pornography now requires a government ID. It could have global implications for the future of the web.
  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    4 months ago

    Morons, all of them. You’re not getting that genie back in the bottle.

    I grew up pre-internet and still found plenty of porn, as did the hypocrites making these laws.

    • azimir@lemmy.mlEnglish
      32·
      4 months ago

      There was some way to either steal a “dirty” magazine, buy one from an older teenager, or check out the one you found at your friend’s house that his dad had in a drawer somewhere.

      If all else failed, there was always the Sears catalog.

      Pitching your desire to block pornography against the collective sex drives of the whole populace is a recipe for you losing and look stupid doing it.

  • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    76·
    4 months ago

    Easiest solution: point the fucking DNS to a family safe one and lock it behind passcode. Done.

    This is how you “protect the children.” Not by making a burden on everyone else. I don’t need age verification on the internet, ever.

  • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
    41·
    4 months ago

    And at some point, they will blur the lines of what porn means, and bit by bit everything that meant something to you will be banned until nothing is left but what they like.

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    4 months ago

    After war on drugs failed you got to spend all that anger on something and find a new enemy.

      • ahornsirup@feddit.orgEnglish
        7·
        4 months ago

        Looking at it from the outside it doesn’t look like a failure at all, it provides the prison industrial complex with an endless stream of slaves cheap prison labour. If we assume that that’s the actual goal, it’s a resounding success.