They want to ban it nationwide

Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered

-A Promise to America", Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 5, Project 2025

Remember, one of the defining traits of right-wing political movements is the redefining of words. When a Conservative says "small government" what they really mean is "a government that can enforce our morals and values, but is incapable of enforcing rights, regulations, or equality."

Pretty sure "government" is what they call their dicks.

Oh porn will be accessible it'll just be worse.

I'm in North Carolina and the porn has been blocked since New Year's. The hentai websites are the only ones I have access to. (E621 is also blocked).

I'm with you, but I can't imagine any other outcome than an increasingly large group of sexually-frustrated men taking this out on women / men / animals around them. Particularly as other porn sites follow suit.

What's worse, I imagine this is either by design or a very welcome byproduct. In other words, one step closer to y'all qaeda.

Porn reduces the incident of rape. Combine that with the inability to access abortion. This is going to get worse. If vulnerable people have the ability to leave, they should.

Don't worry they'll find a way to blame Biden.

Anything is possible when logic, facts, and reality don't matter.

I tried it, got the block message, and then tried it with a Kansas City VPN just to see if it would work. It did.

I really liked the message though. Texas legislators are dumb af if they don't think that this is going to push people to use websites without ID requirements and less stringent rules on content creation/safety.

I mean, they were dumb af before this, but they're extra dumb now too.

VPN to Cancun

He’s gonna fly to Cancun to watch from there.

@Lucidlethargy @MicroWave

I refuse to drive through Texas and I do not do layovers in Texas on the grounds that their supreme court supports road side cavity searches by law enforcement. Nothing Texas for me.

If porn is the only thing stopping someone from raping another person, then their problems are a whole lot deeper than porn

Interestingly, according to the article, the biggest effect is in 15-19 year olds; which are the people the law is intended to bar from accessing porn. Granted, I have no idea how good the underlying study that article is based off of is.

Came here to say this too. All they're doing is pushing the users of those sites to less reputable sites

I know how I was as a kid, and I sure as shit wouldn't have stopped because my state said "no"

I can almost guarantee that the EU would have better regulations. Given that the US doesn’t even have anything akin to GDPR. If you’re in the EU and get a “sorry we can’t let you use our site because of GDPR” warning, you should consider it a blessing in disguise. Because it means the US users are getting their data harvested and sold without their knowledge or consent, and the GDPR prevents that.

I'm sure that a national firewall is next. These right wing freedom humpers are deeply envious of totalitarian regimes.

Guess it's time Sears started mailing out their catalogs again...

Use VPN.

The cum must flow