Porn is everywhere. 80 percent of the web is porn. There’s porn here on Lemmy and on Mastodon. It seems like a whack-a-mole situation .
It’s not a war on
drugsporn, it’s a war on personal freedom, OK? Keep that in mind at all times.It’s more sinister than that - Project 2025 explicitly says that one step in the plan is to classify anything pro-LGBTQ as porn. Make porn illegal, and you’ve just made being LGBTQ or an ally illegal.
Be openly LGBTQ or say anything supportive in front of someone under the age of 18? You’ve now committed a sexual offense involving a minor.
And, even before Trump was elected, Republican lawmakers were making the first moves towards mandating the death penalty for sexual offenses involving a minor.
So when do they do that to Epstein’s friend?
Conservatives have been labeling anything and everything they don’t like as “porn”. A queer romance novel is “porn”. Two male characters kissing on television is “porn”. Drag queen story time is “porn”. The picture book Heather Has Two Mommies is “porn”. And the thing they’re really most afraid of, educational resources for LGBTQ youth are “porn”.
So by declaring porn illegal, they now have a pretext to go after everything they call “porn”. Their goal isn’t to remove all porn from the internet, it’s to make it harder for people who need those educational resources to access them. It’s not about porn, it’s about “porn”.
It’s not about porn, it’s about
“porn”controlling the population.FTFY. It’s always about authoritarianism and control of the people.
The same way they banned drugs. Not very well.
As you’ve accurately identified, they can’t. Best they have is say “nooo you can’t” and hope sites comply out of pure fear. Even if they could, VPN.
They also completely bungled prohibition, drug prohibition, and the states with restrictive gun laws are bungling that. And women from the anti abortion states can still get out of state abortions.
Bans don’t actually work, especially when there’s already an abundance and the banned thing in question is easy to produce.
I will just add how Republicans try to ban everything they don’t like, but when it comes to banning guns they are like “Bans Don’t Work!”
The point is that Republicans never do anything in good faith. It’s always lies and hypocrisy.
It isn’t a ban so much as being able to legally go after people who evade the ban.
If you are a reputable company in the right jurisdiction, you can be sued by the state for operating illegally. That is likely enough to get companies to block the state’s IP addresses.
You can block anything if you’re stupid enough to think it’s going to work.
More like whack-a-hole am I right?
I’ll see myself out.
You’re 100% correct, this is totally a whack-a-mole situation. Some websites follow the law, and some don’t. I have no intention of sharing not only my identity, but sensitive data to access these websites. I use a VPN to bypass this on those websites that comply.
This is getting out of hand. I feel that we have more government in areas it absolutely doesn’t belong, and not enough where it belongs.
I feel that we have more government in areas it absolutely doesn’t belong, and not enough where it belongs.
smALl GovERnmEnT
Government that wants to spy on you but can’t directly prohibit encryption, so this is the work around. Prohibit porn, people go for VPN. Oohh, now we have to prohibit VPN which we can’t because its a required tool plus it’s really hard to prohibit… so what else can we do, then? Government backdoor keys ftw!
Do you care to elaborate? I can’t figure out what exactly it is you’re trying to say here.
Republicans are traditionally, and on paper, the party of “small government”. “Fuck off feds, it’s none of your business” type shit. Some just wanted a small central government that let states and local government make their own choices, some wanted as small a government as possible at all levels.
Which is also why you see a minority of old school republican voters refusing to call Trump’s clown show republican.
That capitalization style is meant to be mocking, because the current dipshits in power clearly don’t have any intentions of “small government”.
Don’t they get the common VPN IP and just block them
Porn sites don’t really want to comply with the ID laws. They’re doing just enough to not get fined by the Land of the Free. They want you to use a VPN so they can continue to have your business without dealing with the ID bullshit. If your IP is not in a bible state they have no reason to believe that they must comply.
I shall cross that bridge when I get to it. For now, it works.
- Regulate all traffic sent or received across the state.
- Send traffic through a firewall.
- decrypt traffic
- drop traffic that can’t be decrypted.
Another easier way:
- Regulate ISPs with new state laws.
- require they block porn.
- Sue ISPs that violate the law.
Aka, the great Chinese firewall
I really hope to see official declare a “war on porn”. Considering how terrorism and drugs won the previous two, I’m sure it’s gonna be a fun watch from the sidelines.
I don’t know if terrorism or drugs have “won.” The government is able to use them to fuck up the lives of people who they don’t like… see venezuela and what they’re trying to do with antifa.
