Anon experiences freedom

The whole porn ban thing is probably my all-time favorite example of conservatives voting against themselves.
Meanwhile, in California, I can watch all the porn I want without registering myself in a database and walk down the street to the weed store. And the women in my life still have rights over their own bodies.
So I guess Democrats are actually the party of freedom.
- who would've guessed
- Yeah but could you imagine voting for them?
- Notice how the things you're talking about are exaggerations and the comment above is not.

Me: This is America.
Pornhub: This content is not available in your state due to ID verification legislation.
My VPN: This is Germany.
- This is how we lose access to personal encryption
- My favorite small example of this is trying to watch a video on YouTube. If my VPN is set to United States then im told 'You can't watch this unless you log in.'
  I switch to Germany and like magic the video plays. So clearly they didn't need to confirm I wasn't a bot. They just wanted to track my viewing habits.

This is a great opportunity to learn how to use a VPN! I'm in a blue state so haven't needed one yet, but the time is definitely coming.

And ANON doesn’t understand how to use a VPN?
- If they knew that, they wouldn't have made the post

Will porn be the straw that broke the mountain's back?
- Prohibition but worse
- MAGA Republicans: will riot if you give them a Facebook event invite
  Democrats: let's see, maybe they will riot if you take their houses or something. At least they might write a strongly worded comment
  
  It's because the Republicans usually have the police either directly on their side, or at least sympathetic to them.
  Look at the police response across the country to BLM protests a few years ago.
  And it's not like left wingers in the country don't do extreme action. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_Occupied_Protest

May he enjoy the sweet freedom of USA!
- Fiefdom*

Lol I saw Lemmings celebrate Australia's Ban of Teenagers from social media, then simultaneously criticize this lol 🤣
(Both are bad, btw)
- I think it's uncontroversial to say that porn is bad for children, and I would say that social media is bad for children as well. I think as one matures and becomes an adult both become less bad, less fraught, but the difference between the two of Is that one with one of them you sometimes want to be anonymous, and the other one you almost always want to be anonymous.
  I mean I'm against requiring affirmative identity verification online anyway, even as a solution to keeping children away from things that are unhealthy for them. You can't sacrifice the freedom of adults on the altar of protecting children.

It's going to suck when they outlaw VPNs
- VPN bans are my red line where I start putting all my time and money into getting citizenship elsewhere.

Guilty Canadian Admission:
In my teens I lived in Brockville Ontario near Ogdensburg New York and watched a lot of US channels. The Star Spangled Banner came on at the beginning of the broadcast day for some channels.
For many years, I thought the first line was "Jose can you see"
- When I was a kid I thought the "for which it stands" in the national anthem was in reference to a country called "witchistan", which was presumably full of witches.
  
  I think Jose is from Witchistan
  
  I actually snickered. Thanks for that.
- Bonus points if your name is Jose.
- I accidentally came up with a Minnesotan version: "Oh hey, can you see"

Easy solution! Just make a profile before the photo verification was implemented

Make sure you cum on your ID first as tribute.
- Hey the cum can be anywhere. It doesn't say "only" a picture of your face.
  For example, why not put a mirror on a table. Put your ID next to the mirror. Look down into the mirror and ready your camera. Then, slap your dick right on the table next to the ID. Finally, banana for size.

That's what you voted for. You want republican rule taking away your freedoms. Well now you Floridains have what you wanted and voted for. Don't be mad you made your bed and dont like the sheets.
- Given how close most elections are and the low turnout, I would say at least 40% of voters and 50% of the population didn't vote for this without even having to look at the election results.
  
  In fact, 77% of the USA population did not vote for this.
  
  By US standards it was a pretty high turnout.
  However, more people didn't vote than voted for Trump.
  
  Not voting is the same as voting for whichever party wins.
- You know damn well not all Floridians voted for this shit. This is the same kind of out-group bullshit red hat shit bags do. You’re just being intentionally divisive.
  
  I'm sorry but here is a prime example of the Republican party doing dishonest election tactics in Florida and the public masses falling for it. If you don't have enough common sense and fall for such tactics, who is to blame then? https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2020/12/02/the-name-is-the-same-but-theyre-different-florida-candidates-column/
  
  Majority of voters did, and keep on doing it.

You are free to be as conservative as you want. What more can you ask for?
- you're free to be as conservative as the heritage foundation wants you to be.
- Conservatives jerk off to porn all the time. This isn't even strictly conservative per-say, its just generic American prudishness. 30 years ago, you'd have Tipper Gore and Newt Gingrich coming together to restrict the sale of rap music CDs and wrestling themed video games to anyone under the age of 13, on similar grounds.
  Demanding everyone have an ID present any time they want to do anything is a throw-back to the 90s liberal fixation on "accountability" that was a proxy for mass surveillance.

Related:
Florida experiences a huge 1,150% surge in VPN use as Pornhub blocks access in response to age-verification law
https://www.tomshardware.com/software/vpn/florida-experiences-a-huge-1-150-percent-surge-in-vpn-use-as-pornhub-blocks-access-in-response-to-age-verification-law
- Every YouTuber sponsored by nordvpn: 🤑🤑🤑
- I am really curious how long it will take them to ban VPNs.
  
  It's impossible to ban all VPNs. And even if they somehow do it, you can get a VPS(virtual private server) from one of the cloud providers (AWS, GCP, Azure etc.) and host your own vpn service (OpenVPN, Algo, Vultr). You don't need to know a lot about it, there are step-by-step guides for it.
  
  They'll ultimately just have to cut off the US Internet from the rest of the world, right? As long as we can access other countries with more freedom, we can enjoy that level of freedom on the Internet. Or am I not understanding how the Internet works (entirely possible)?
  
  Some US states already have more restrictive abortion laws than Saudi Arabia, so why not Internet laws too.

Americans now need a wanking license.
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  Oh shitting hell lads, it's Boris The Bouncer Bot!
  Quick lads, run! Scarper before he tackles and smothers you unconscious!
- Bu....bu....but I thought the Republicans were the party of freedom..........
- Good boy, you don't come until Trump tells you to.
  
  Trump branded chastity cages.
  What I hate most is that that would be an effective tactic for right wing extremist groups. Keeping men sexually frustrated and insecure in their masculinity is a powerful tool for them.
  Actually come to think of it, I really wouldn't be surprised if there were a variety of political themed pro dommes these days. It seems like it would be lucrative
  
  That is revolting
- Idaho is starting a registry for at-risk men with erections, to prevent impure thoughts. You need to send a picture of your dick, where it will be validated by an evangelical priest.
  
  Life begins at erection.
- yew got a lie-sense for that boner?
  
  What accent was that supposed to be?

You are a fool to consent to this.

I wonder, how many of the verification photos are shirtless?
- I wonder how many are from a middlefinger next to a dick
  
  Oh they wouldn't dare to do that, that's the longest finger!

This is pretense to intrude on other things and more importantly remove the ability to browse pornography anonymously, which is dangerous. I would never use an account to browse a porn site because why would I ever want that data linked back to me? Look at the government right now. You watch a gay or trans porn video and in a few years that could be grounds for never being able to have certain types of jobs or worse, being deemed a “miscreant”
If this was truly about protecting children they would encourage open dialogue on sex in homes and increase inclusive sex education. This is evidence based. It would still be necessary even with this nonsense because obviously vpns exist, as well as amateur run sites, sites run from outside of the USA, torrents, etc that don’t give a shit about us laws requiring age verification and will show all kinds of obscenely hardcore videos
- KOSA would require age verification for these sites and social networking. Nationally.
  Luckily the bill appears to be dead

At least they owned the liberals, right?
- It must be real inconvenient to have to turn on a VPN, it's like a whole button that they have to click, Libs totally owned. Meanwhile the actual weird idiots that voted for this can barely operate a mouse and so they actually do have to suffer the consequences of their own decisions.
  
  well yes it's inconvenient to have to pay to pretend to be in another country to access a website
  
  "Hey frogs, stay in the hot water, it's not boiling yet!"

Florida 🤝 UK
Ridiculous and archaic anti-porn laws
- Does the UK have anti porn laws? Can't say that being very effective, since I appear to be circumventing them without intending to.
  
  It's not in effect yet: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwye3qw7gv7o

“Show penis for verification”
- "Please suck verification dick to continue."

People with humiliation fetishes are gonna love this shit.

"Verification is carried out by 3rd party". Totally no potential to misuse of collected data.
- Why no, they specifically mentioned it being highly secure
  
  "Trust us, bro."
  
  See the lock icon near the URL? It says you're secure so don't worry bro.
- Well at least it's not going to the federal government so it should be somewhat safe
  
  The third party has a very secure agreement to very securely sell data to 572 advertising partners and that is very securely being bought by the FBI.
  Not that outlandish, since the FBI and the US police already buys advertising data streams to get access to data they are prohibited to collect directly.
  It's so bad there are already middlemen who buy data and compile it into products for law enforcement.
  
  If it was last administration I'd say it's just slightly annoying that our day was going to the federal government. But it's admin....maybe not

Soon they’ll start recording you jerking it to cross reference with previous sessions as identity confirmation.
- Well, they know what parts of what videos you watch, your favorite keywords, time/days patterns, location, I'd say they can train AI on that data
  
  ChatGPT will be drawing conclusions from the data like "Subject is likely a tipthumbing twister (86.436% confidence) with content dependent high frequency intervals (94.738% confidence)"
  It'll analyze things like minor mouse movements, microphone audio, and use that wifi radar trick.
- Biometric Orgasm face photo lol
- Can you imagine, training rec algos for porn sites on intensity of movement and facial expressions...
  Edit: if this ever happens (and I'm 85% convinced it will in some way), I'll just start crankin' to financial spreadsheets and medication specs, keep'em guessing.
  
  I would skip to when they start telling you about the side effects. So hot.

Time to return to wanking off to magazines
- I VPN’s to Florida and e621 needs no age verification. Time for every Florida person to become a furry!
  
  Or use sketchy Russian porn sites and get syphilis for your device
  
  AOL age restrictions 2.0.
- Free range porn, like our ancestors used to watch
- There has to be a lot of old porn boxes in the woods. Since kid stopped looking for them in favor of Internet.

"This process is highly secure, Anon". Said the actor in the movie.

I don't care if kids see porn.
If that's the worst thing ever, justifying this invasion of privacy, whoop de shit. Let 'em.
There's a lot worse on the internet. There's a lot worse on daytime television. Blood and guts and cults and informercials. Desirable crude entertainment is obviously not worth locking down the internet. I mean for fuck's sake, at least with "four horsemen" excuses, like terrorism and money laundering, people agree that those things are bad.
- It's absolutely reprehensible that you think it's okay for a child to see an infomercial
- I was never exposed to porn on the internet as a child, outside of advertisements and typing website names wrong. I never looked for it either, if a child is actively seeking it out, its up to a parent to deal with it. People should stop making laws to protect bad parents.
  
  its up to a parent to deal with it
  What a nice cherry on top of the hypocrisy pie. The party of "personal responsibility" and "small government" is perfectly happy when government is used to regulate sexuality and help out the irresponsible parents that don't want to spend time monitoring their children's Internet usage. Now young teens are going to learn how to use VPNs or just find the shadier sites that don't give a shit about U.S. state laws.
  Both of which would be adequately addressed by parents learning how to use the tools that are probably already built into their router.
- The thing is that by now, plenty of adults grew up watching porn when they were minors, and know that this hasn't been harmful to them... so why are we even still getting laws like that, shouldn't voters and their representatives know better by now...
  
  It’s old white fossils trying to stay in power by getting crazy christians to vote for them.
  
  These people are not results-oriented.
  
  What about addiction? It’s not 100% but very possible
- Yes, you're right. But that doesn't fit with their "think of the children" moral compass. Which isn't even pointing the correct direction, but good luck convincing them of that.
  I feel like my compass analogy isn't the best, but eh.
  
  A valid response to "think of the children" is "fuck them kids."
  It's not enough to politely disagree. Some fucks need to be dismissed.
- Let me child see porn or trust a porn site with their photo and IS?

The privacy and security issues of this are pretty obvious. However I do think that the easy accessibility and ubiquity of porn and highly sexualized content for children and tweens is a serious problem that people who make fun of porn restriction efforts fail to address or even acknowledge.
Certainly a lot of the responsibility falls on guardians, but it's hard to moderate when you're up against the giant machines of social media. They need help to limit exposure. And this isn't some prudish "oh no protect the children from the titty and the peen" attitude. I don't think most people feel comfortable with the idea of 10-year olds sharing videos of aggressive gang banging or throat fucking like it's a normal thing. And obviously this isn't exclusive to porn. Plenty of explicit and gruesomely violent content out there to be worried about. But the internet footprint of porn dwarfs everything else put together.
- Why is it everyone's problem that parents can't figure out that their kids shouldn't have unlimited unrestricted access to the internet? They know not to let their children loose on the Las Vegas strip, why can't they apply the same logic to the internet? I don't agree with 10 year olds looking at porn even slightly but also it's not my problem. I'm tired of the world making everything child friendly. I don't have kids for a reason and if I want to watch Human Centipede 1-4 while blasting hardcore dwarf deepthroat gangbang porn then that's my prerogative.

About time to invest in a VPN
- Yet another republican tax increase.
  
  Depends on how much other media you consume. If you're forced to get a VPN anyway I bet you're more likely to start looking into pirating everything else, too
  
  Eh, I see it as a necessity in the modern age, it's politically agnostic for me. I run a full time VPN as a matter of privacy and security.
- Yeah and just torrent porn or use those debrid services. Stop giving these sites that bend the knee traffic.
  
  Don't bend the knee when you want to choke the chicken
- I spun up OpenVPN on a Digital Ocean droplet 7-years ago. LOL, no longer have any idea how it works, but it's $6/mo. and never dies. 🏴‍☠️
  
  There have been a number of (I'll admit, not high-risk) security updates since then.
- Ive had mullvad on my router for 2 years :p
  
  God bless that mole

Soon You'll have to go back to borrowing porn magz from Your friends.
- Return of the hollow porn stash log in the forest.

This will never be removed. There will only ever going to be more types of websites that have to use this
- It's a lubed slope
- I wonder if that'll end up being true. I'd guess these constituents represent voters that watch porn at least as much on average as anyone else. I'm going to go ahead and guess above average. They might get tired of this and push for change. But I'm also admittedly less educated on how our political system works than I should be and might be overestimating how much influence Florida Man has because he's disgruntled at having to jump through hurdles to fap.
  
  The problem is that it's political suicide to be the "pro sex, pro smut" politician. Consistently the counters to anti sexual freedom laws have come from the courts. By saying "age verification on porn has gone too far," a politician more or less accepts that their entire campaign is going to be about this. And when that happens the right has the advantage because they have the ability to be short and quippy as they misrepresent you and play to emotions.

Freedom

Bet they voted trump like an idiot

That’s insane

Fucking Jesus. They did say they wanted to ban porn and this is only the first step. This will systematically destroy porn and livelihoods. Who in their right minds would upload a picture of their horny selves next to their licence to some likely unreliable site? Lower the traffic and you kill the shit out of sex work. Evil motherfuckers, man.

I'd rather go back to (poorly) drawing boobs and stuff...

Protect my minors?

Honestly good, less taking advantage of women and thinking of them as a piece of meat
- Because, apparently gay porn (with men) or just men in porn at all doesn't exist. I understand that some porn producers can be exploitative, especially to women, but that doesn't mean the whole industry is bad and needs to be blocked.
- Conservatives practically invented taking advantage of women and considering them nothing but their property.
  
  Yep, thats also bad.
- First they came for the wankers... And I didn't speak up.