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About eight years ago, I moved out of the US to a Third World country but each day it feels less and less like a Third World country.
This may be the real reason r's are losing all of the elections, lol. They are entirely red states.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/16/adult-website-age-verification-states
So much for small government…
I just remembered that I'm the guy everyone in my family goes to when they need someone to scan their ID or passport for whatever stupid bullshit.
Guess it's time to sign all my conservative family members up to gay porn websites!
In other news VPN use in the US is soaring to new heights.
Land of the free, eh guys?
Oh yes, please treat on me daddy. I was a bad snek.
Sorry, MAGA. If you want to stroke it to trans porn, you need to show ID.
But gun control is too hard. smh
There's only one gun they're ok controlling. 😏
I'm just over here in "hellscape" California enjoying the freedom to not have to do this, and I can walk down the street to the weed shop, and my girlfriend still has basic human rights over her own body.
Do any other states, like Texas, need some of our freedom? We've got some to spare.
I think California recently passed the Digital Age Assurance Act, which was backed by Google,Meta, and OpenAI. I think it goes into effect in 2027.
Just to be clear, because I had to look into it a bit, California's law won't require photos/IDs.
"Operating system providers need not collect additional information like photos of government IDs to verify the user’s age. Based on this age information, operating system providers must send digital signals via real-time API (age signals) to developers upon request, transmitting the user’s age range bracket – under 13, at least 13 and under 16, at least 16 and under 18, or at least 18. When a user downloads and launches a developer’s application, the developer must request an age signal from the relevant operating system provider or the application store from which the user downloaded the application."
So I'm assuming those companies backed it because they want more analytics about the age ranges of the people who use their products.
That’s not the freedom these people want. They want their own freedoms that don’t include those things and the freedom to stop other people having freedom. (Old testament Christian-only the bits I like) God bless America!
bless their repressed hearts
The most important issue facing the world: Someone might be jerking off in the privacy of their own home.
You mean there’s actually horny cougars in my neighborhood? Neat!
Porn is just the foot in the door to force ID for connecting to the Internet. This is techno-fascist dystopian police-state shit, and the "don't tread on me" crowd is just bending over and saying "Please, sir, may I have another? No lube this time!"
Exactly, all the talk about save the children, anti terrorism protection and other authoritarian bullshit is just an attempt to deceive and manipulate the masses.
Police state is what they resort to because these fascist fucks are fuelled by their narcissistic and machiavellianistic desires - the last thing they want is for someone to discover their true tyranny.
It is disappointing to see fascists are slowly succeeding by utilising their manipulative tactics.
Show them your O face
But I need my porn to make my o face!
Lo and behold, ladies and gents, the land of the free, where even jerking off is chargeable...
Here come more spikes in VPN usage.
Porn torrents on i2p work. But i2p is too slow for streaming.
With the rising popularity of VPNs due to increasingly more countries becoming more authoritarian, I wouldn't be supposed there will be some anti-vpn directives put in place.
In addition to that, increasingly more selections within vpn profiles will be just as restrictive as the fascist internet at home.
VPNs are a great way to circumvent this police state but it ultimately doesn't stop fascists and their motives.
Politicians who think they can ban VPNs are idiots who don't know what they are or how many are used by businesses and such. It would never fly.
half of states does not equal half of americans
This is the future you all dreamed of.
Yeah, I will never show my ID to a fucking porn site, get real
fucking porn site
No need to be redundant
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