Oh my god a DEMOCRAT governor signed this??
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Yeah. Voting blue no matter who turned out to not be a good strategy.
Liberals suck so much. She was probably told the talking point "protect children" yada yada and just signed it hoping to score political points without any critical thought on how it's the opposite.
She also signed an EO that lets people get covid shots without a perscription because the fed is run by people intent on destrying the country, so.
She is acting on behalf of lobbyists. That's how America got to this stage. Lobbyist lawyers and marketers write laws that benefit them, and they "donate" to politicians to pass that legislation.
The only politicians who actually read anything they vote on are leftists like Bernie and AOC; everyone else is doing what their financiers tell them to do.
Lobbyists for what?
I wish someone would make a "protect children" bill that actually protects children
But that would target all the people in power.
They're craven and evil–not compulsively evil like the red menace
And so we should need a prescription for a COVID shot? Am I misunderstanding you?
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It doesn't stop fascism, that's for sure
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She’s a slim margin democrat governor. She might be calculating that placating this may end up better than letting the state house overrule her with something worse. Many here are also prudes, unfortunately.
Swing state dems think running as Republican light is the way to win over voters, rather than push their own strategy.
Its kind of insane. The whole reason trump is a thing is that the slightly reasonable repubs don't have a choice, as opposed to the rightoids """ best""" choice being a Mitt Romney type.
Me visiting me in 1998:
"So, yeah, the United States has fallen to fascism, it's all over but the shouting. Donald Trump is the President for the second time. Yes, that Donald Trump. Censorship is the rule of the day and the only major corporation to stand against it, taking a hit to their own profits, is the internet's largest focal point for porn, a sort of hub for porn."
"You are clearly demented. Get the fuck out of my house old man."
I wouldn't really describe complying with a law as taking a stand against it. Pornhub blocks all US states which require ID verification.
Which is ridiculous if you think about it. The whole point of a website is that the visitor goes to them. Unless their servers are located in a place that place should have no jurisdiction or authority over them whatsoever.
Yeah, I their their proposed option of using standardized tags for content blockers for parents to use is much more sensible. But this law isn't about protecting children, it's about control and seeing what they can get away with. With the stir about transgender people being classified as nihilistic violent extremists the idea of seeing discussion of LGBT topics online as "obscene" and requiring submitting your ID to do is not far fetched.
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"Wow, a second time? He must have done really well the first time!"
Yeah, not really. He tanked the economy into nearly a recession, then over 1M people eventually died from a respiratory virus, he lost re-election, failed to lead a coup, then was convicted of 34 felonies but the judicial department slow-walked until he was re-elected again. Yeah. 2020s have been rough.
Looking forward to seeing Republican names, addresses, and photo IDs being leaked.
In other news plumbers are moving out of Arizona and into Nevada where the clogged sinks are more prominent now.
When interviewed one plumber explained how women's falling hair and men's sperm coming together as the principal clugged sink reason made their job, and I quote "easy as fuck, you just pull the hair with a wire and all the cum stuck hair plug comes out in one move" ending with a final comment, and I quote "fuck".
Can someone please ELI5:
Why does every site on the web have to adjust for every jurisdiction in the world? Shouldn’t each jurisdiction just be responsible for filtering/censoring the web for their citizens based on whatever batshit idea their leaders have?
Actually, I suspect the answer is quite easy: this way, they force other people to have to pay for their batshit crazy ideas instead of themselves.
Is there another explanation I’m missing?
stupidity and laziness
You're fucking kidding me, right? Can't believe that I have to state the obvious: Because government censorship of the internet is a dangerous, slippery slope.
Because they're providing services over there and they're subject to local laws.
“Under his eye.”
Fucking hell... This is how I find out? Assumed AZ would be safe from this bullshit with Hobbs. Guess not. Might be time to just run the VPN router side from now on.
i wonder what qualifies as "porn"
18 U.S. Code § 2256
Before long any hussy showing some exposed ankle will qualify.
welp good thing Pink Visual shut down in Tucson, AZ cause....yeah that would have been awkward.
Food was great there though, lunches were always decent.
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I am surprised that "BringBackThePorn.com" doesn't seem to be registered to anyone and isn't already being used to fight back against these age verification laws.
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