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I had to travel to Austin for work a few weeks ago. Got off the plane, checked into the hotel, took a shower, decided to use mother nature’s melatonin to help with the jet lag… then, boom. Upload your driver’s license.
So I had visited some sites that were hosted outside US and didn’t give a fuck about Texas’ stupid laws.
These laws are not only authoritarian, they’re fucking useless.
I assume this is the "small government" party doing this?
(I'm not an American)
Yes. They want "small government" when the law affects them, but "law and order" when it punishes someone else who annoys them.
It's childishness we've come to be accustomed to, thanks to lead-brained 70-year-olds who are falling into legit cognitive decline... but still have the numbers to be a formidable opponent at the polls on election day.
Also, their dicks don't work anymore without a blue pill, so they may as well take away the consensual naked fun of Gen X, Millennial, and Gen Z (18+) people right?
Small so it can sneak into all their citizen's lives.
What's worse: Reputable sites that comply with U.S. laws (such as participants being 18+ and filming of their own free will) are effectively forced out, while questionable site carry on.
The likelyhood of seeing abuse victims or underage in Texas goes up, not down.
If they truly cared about protecting minors, they'd see the flaw in their law and rectify it. Of course, we all know (not through cynicism but cold repeated behavior) that political conservatives do not care about minors and care far more about punishing consenting adults.
This law is a step toward the latter.
You: (bring facts and logic)
TX Republicans: "A witch! They're a witch! Burn them!"
In any given situation, sites beholden to these laws are much less likely to be hosting CSAM
Edit: Literally why the fuck are all of you reading this wrong????
Other way around:
Sites that COMPLY with laws and exit the state leave behind sites that do not comply.
The sites you CAN reach in Texas are more likely to have trafficking victims and underage participants -- because those sites clearly don't give a hoot about laws.
Texas drove away the wrong sites!
Yes that's literally what I said...
Sites beholden to these laws..
PornHub, sister sites, etc...
...are much less likely to be hosting CSAM.
Because of their moderation.
Obviously it's a big site and you can't get rid of it all, but the percentage is absolutely lower.
That's like saying a supermarket that's burning to the ground is experiencing a record low theft.
If that's true, then even conservatives won't go to them.
If you get downvoted once, everyone else has to downvote you too before they read your comment, it's the rule of lemmy.
Honestly, this feels like a canary in a coalmine. A coalmine that we've known to be on fire, but a canary nonetheless.
12 states total. That's like a quarter of the country.
2025 is gonna be a wild ride..
Ironically their leader pays porn stars to have sex with him which obviously is not a problem for their voters.
Just imagine how angry everyone is going to be when they can't masturbate the pain of Present Day away
Banning porn nationwide is part of Project 2025's plan. defeatproject2025.org
Republicans plotting in the open to install an authoritarian theocracy? Sounds serious!
So when will democrats drop gun control considering this imminent threat?
Armed queers bash back.
SocialistRA.org
Conservatism / Religiosity is a plague that's been retarding our species since the dawn of man.
This is part one of the religious rights plan to go after porn sites and their patrons. Don’t give them your ID. If they get power, it will come back on you.
I don't think pornhub wants your ID.
I live in Texas and just tested the site to see if anyone has changed. It hasn't since they essentially shut down here.
It's a full page statement about Texas politicians.
There's no option to submit an ID even if a person wanted to do so.
But maybe I've misunderstood who "them" is in your comment.
It's not pornhub that wants your id, it's the facist states, so they can have a registry of who's not aligned with their puritanical ideals.
Creeping theocracy
A blog post from Pornhub said that its latest locations for shutdowns are Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky and Nebraska. The site said it would end operations in those states in July 2024. The website closed in Texas last week, and has also blocked access to its site in Arkansas, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Utah, and Virginia in response to similar state legislation.
Time to invest in VPN companies..
XVideos will get more popular.
I just tested with my VPN and indeed xvideos doesn't give a shit if you're in Texas.
The A record for xvideos resolves to the Netherlands so that's probably why they don't give a shit.
vpn stonks go up
So, I have a pretty alright VPN provider, but I've been looking for a self-hosted solution to allow me to say "Hey, if you're trying to hit www.domain.com, go through this VPN tunnel instead" but still run everything else straight through. Lots of options exist, I have one that would be perfect that we utilize at my company, but I haven't found a good solution that doesn't utilize enterprise level pricing.
Anyone got any tips on that front?
Tinyproxy
https://github.com/tinyproxy/tinyproxy/releases
Free Open source Upstream Http/s, socks4/5, direct redirection per site/URL/domain with regex. Can set default upstream proxy for everything else.
Invisible proxy Reverse proxy
Command line / simple text config
It's in your distros repo
It's available in termux.
It works.
You can use foxyproxy (browser extension) with SOCKS5 proxies to ssh tunnels to various hosts based on the URL pattern. Maybe too kludgey for your use case.