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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/35195650

At the dawn of the new year, Pornhub will leave Florida. Thanks to a harsh new age verification law that takes effect on January 1, the porn giant will no longer do business in the sunshine state. The law mirrors similar laws passed in other Republican led states where Pornhub has stopped doing business.

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[–] nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 76 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Someone was waiting a long time to use that title I wager

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

That byline is the real gift

Starting January 1, Floridians can no longer legally come to Pornhub.

[–] horse_battery_staple@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] qisope@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

but not too long

[–] Anissem@lemmy.ml 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Never stick your dick in crazy

[–] FUsername@feddit.org 7 points 1 year ago

OH realized and pulls out.

[–] errer@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never stick your dick in another, much larger dick

[–] pookie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That made me think of the !vore@lemmy.ml community.

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 0 points 1 year ago

This makes me wonder why this community is there

[–] leadore@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But will they pull out in time?

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -3 points 1 year ago

I think they're struggling to stay hard, honeslty. Too many drinks and wondering wtf they're doing in Florida, anyway.

Time to finish her off out of common decency, pull out, and just leave.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 26 points 1 year ago

Better get an std check after. Florida’s crazy.

[–] Alph4d0g@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 year ago

That's what the dumb ass voters in the state voted for. That's what they get.

[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 year ago

These laws are next to impossible to repeal once in place. To my knowledge no state that has implemented age verification laws have repealed the law or has the law overturned on judicial review.

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 15 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Possibly hard drive stocks too. If somehow, some way VPNs are banned in these states, you still might be able to ship an encrypted hard drive full of porn to someone.

[–] einlander@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

This might be a long game to reinvigorate flash and optical media sales.

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Vpns are used for business too they won't be banned

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah I don't know that it's even possible to block VPNs from a technical perspective.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

VPNs and other traffic redirection are so widely used in business that I don’t know how they could do that on a state by state basis.

For example, how is a sysadmin supposed to manage cloud machines without SSH, which can easily be used to circumvent content restrictions.

[–] arockinyourshoe@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’m not in favour of that law, but I could abide it if the age verification is done in a reasonable and secure way. Even the secure ways don’t protect against a kid borrowing an unrestricted device.

I have no faith that will happen though. More likely what will happen is you’ll have to send your id to the porn websites and they’ll send it to a third party company with nebulous privacy requirements and your porn browsing history will be available to anyone with money.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've got no interest in having to verify my identity to watch porn online... Fuck that.

[–] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

Same here. Npbody should have to submit their identity for that.

An alternative would be a device local authentication system that validates your age from your browser in a privacy preserving way. I’d much prefer that method if we had to go down that route.

[–] nutsack@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah I pulled out of Florida too

[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone is going to make a mint when they create a VPN that gramps can figure out how to use.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly it's going to be some nefarious VPN that results in gramps getting their bank accounts drained.

[–] RagingSnarkasm@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Having lived within 100 miles of The Villages, I'm kind of OK with that.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

It's surprising that there's anything left in Florida at this rate.

[–] apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Fantastic headline, Gizmodo!

[–] sndmn@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

If you don't slip it in to Florida then you don't need to worry about pulling out.