The "trustworthy" porn companies are unwilling to serve to regions that require them to store government IDs.
Source: All the good porn sites blocked my state.
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2024
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Because that’s like them having to become HIPAA compliant. The amount of work with the potential of breaches and lawsuits isn’t worth it by any means.
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My hot take was "the notoriously hackable companies are now trusted to not get hacked"
I'm not worried about pornhub/redtube/xhamster/xvideos/chaturbate/only fans leaking info but more someone hacking in. There's a potential goldmine of blackmail/sextortion material from seeing what fetishes someone has.
Even if they do need to authenticate some digitalid, there's no need to store it and there's no reason for it to link to an individual person.
This is a very dangerous idea as is.
And this won't even stop kids from finding porn. I think it is based on good intentions but they are too proud to say "yeha, maybe this has more cons than pros"
It's obviously not based on good intentions... how can you be this naïve? If a conservative says "but think of the children", you know fully well whatever they're proposing is not for the wellbeing of children.
When a conservative says "think of the children", what they mean is "think of the queer kids that will be outed to their parents and sent to conversion therapy".
Does anyone have a copy of Mike Johnson’s ID? His son is in for a lot of notifications.
Also porn history is a really good clue to figuring out someone's sexuality and gender identity. And useful to conservatives for demonizing queer people as sexual deviants. I 100% believe this is an indirect way of harming queer people by outing them and their sexual interests.
I'm hoping it happens to everyone all at once. Then another wave of sexual liberation can begin.
Damn it! I come to Lemmy to laugh at US politicians saying stupid things! If the CPC win the election I fear c/memes is going to have more Canadian Content.
This is the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Small government, right CPC?
To be clear: climate change requires individual responsibility. Keeping your kids off legitimate online pornography websites is too big for citizens to handle on their own and requires government intervention.
Well yeah, one of them involves standing up to corpos and the other one would require actually talking to your kids, and conservatives are nothing if not cowardly, so
that this is not enough of a dipshit statement to exclude him from everybody's good books is... like, what's the point
if you cannot plainly see that this is the most retarded suggestion it is possible to make under capitalism, it can only be because you have paid attention to no world event since like 1750
the plastics recycling lie (it's just been shown that plastics recycling does not work, can not work, and that the oil companies have known this, lied about it, and then made money selling additional recycling-related products since like the 70s) is so recent and yet still walks out there, with his bare face hanging out, and says this shit
I've never heard that plastic recycling straight up doesnt work but it sounds like something the oil companies would do. Do you have a link to a documentary or something about that matter?
Basically it costs too much to recycle most plastic. It's just so much cheaper to sell it to impoverished countries that will either burn it or dump it somewhere.
Maybe if we could solve for plasma arc gasification plants to turn garbage into clean energy. But not presently
This is just one article but
John Oliver did a bit on it 2021
I bet he knows about the very high leak probability, for him it's just another tool to subdue people (he'd love to have the leak himself to leverage power).
I bet he knows about the very high leak probability, for him it's just another tool to subdue people (he'd love to have the leak himself to leverage power).
I bet he knows about the very high leak probability, for him it's just another tool to subdue people (he'd love to have the leak himself to leverage power).
I bet he knows about the very high leak probability, for him it's just another tool to subdue people (he'd love to have the leak himself to leverage power).
Remember: to conservatives, private companies can do nothing wrong.
Yeah it's not the Porn companies I'm worried about, it's the companies the porn companies use to store the data. Even if they don't leak it, someone ~~can~~ will break in, either a bad actor or the government themselves because, let's be frank, having a list of porn users and what porn they watch is going to be irresistible if they want to spark a scandal based around, say, rival politicians or activists.
I trusted my government to protect my info, and now I have LifeLock for life because of several breaches on their part. If data is stored, it is virtually certain some portion of it will get leaked.
And here I was thinking banning flipper zeros was the top of our government stupidity
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bork_tapes
So much for once bitten, twice shy.....
This is interesting. This incident resulted in the Video Privacy Protection Act. I wonder if you could apply this to streaming providers who sell your watch history to advertisers.
I guess they were getting tired of doing well in the polls and wanted to shoot themselves in the foot a bit just to remember how it feels.
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