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Interesting, but not sure the data proves the headline. The best they can say is that such searches originating from red states are a significant portion of all US searches.
Obsessed: no definition or evidence to support this.
Republicans: not a definitive connection, though plausible.
I don't want to say this is irresponsible reporting, but it's not factually accurate either.
Yeah not to mention some of the data for searches for porn coming from states with age age verification checks are using VPN's to other states. (Like 80% of porn hub traffic from Louisiana dropped after the age verification laws, and VPNs went up across the board, as in those users likely were not just showing up as users from other states)
You mean yo say correlation is not causation?! How dare you, sir!? I challenge thee to a bartitsu duel!
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