Pornhub now blocks access to users in Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.

  • meggied90@vlemmy.net
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    1 year ago

    Sauce? I’m in Texas and I just tried to access it hoping to collect a screenshot of the blocked message to share with you all, but instead I now need eye bleach.

    Edit: OP your comment is misinformed. PornHub just blocked Mississippi and Virginia. Texas will be blocked on September 1, and Montana in January, but they are not blocked right now. Hopefully this info saves others from surprise penis.

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      1 year ago

      You were going to a porn site. What did you expect to see? Cute kittens?

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    1 year ago

    Relevant quote:

    […] it’s important to understand that these laws are less about protecting minors, and more about restricting the open Internet. State-level regulations that primarily target adult sites are tremendously ineffective at keeping minors from accessing adult content.

    I’m not sure, besides pornography, what qualifies as adult content. Could things like Lemmy be affected by such laws?

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    1 year ago

    This is crazy but Pornhub’s response to this is pretty funny. They don’t like the new law. But instead of taking it out on lawmakers they take it out on their users. And throw other porn sites (who are in the same business to help advocate) under the bus too. This can’t be a smart move.

    • The_Terrible_Humbaba@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Well, there isn’t much Pornhub can do to lawmakers. All they can do is block users in areas that elect those lawmakers, and hope those users take it out on those lawmakers. Possibly by electing different ones in the future who will change that law.

      It’s sort of the same logic as striking or protesting; you can’t affect the people responsible directly, so you do something that inconveniences regular people who will then hopefully take it out on the people responsible in one way or another.