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Cocytus
04/30/24 1:54:39 PM
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https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/30/politics/supreme-court-texas-porn-age-verification/index.html

The Supreme Court on Tuesday allowed Texas to enforce age-verification requirements for porn sites, rejecting a request from the adult entertainment industry to block the law on First Amendment grounds.

Texas law requires any website that publishes a substantial amount of content that is harmful to minors to verify the age of users. The challengers said the law also forces adults to identify themselves before accessing pornography, which the groups lawyers said violates access to free speech online.

A trade group representing the adult entertainment industry filed an appeal at the Supreme Court and then asked the court to block the law while that appeal is considered. The underlying appeal is still pending.

The Supreme Court offered no explanation for its decision Tuesday, common for decisions on its emergency docket. There were no noted dissents.

The emergency request followed a 2-1 decision last month from the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals that cited Texas legitimate interest in preventing minors access to pornography and allowed the law to take effect.

The Supreme Court in 1997 unanimously invalidated provisions of a federal law intended to protect minors from indecent material online because it also imposed First Amendment burdens on adults. But in reviewing the Texas law, the 5th Circuit relied instead on a 1968 precedent in which the Supreme Court let stand a New York law barring the distribution of obscene material to minors.

The record is replete with examples of the sort of damage that access to pornography does to children, the appeals court wrote. Because it is never obvious whether an internet user is an adult or a child, any attempt to identify the user will implicate adults in some way.

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HighSeraph
04/30/24 1:56:16 PM
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RchHomieQuanChi
04/30/24 1:56:30 PM
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Man, fuck the Supreme Court

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PeteyParker
04/30/24 1:56:49 PM
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The Freedom Party being all about that freedom once again.


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Strider102
04/30/24 1:57:36 PM
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PeteyParker posted...
The Freedom Party being all about that freedom once again.

Freedom for them, not for everyone else.

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DrizztLink
04/30/24 1:57:53 PM
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The Supreme Court is a failed institution.

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Umbreon
04/30/24 1:58:24 PM
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Enjoy what you voted for Texas.

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punkfanalways
04/30/24 1:58:59 PM
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You need ID to buy alcohol. You need ID to buy tobacco products. You need ID to buy porn in real life. I dont get why needing ID to view porn online is a bad thing.
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kingdrake2
04/30/24 1:59:15 PM
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no horny.

nuff said.

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Strider102
04/30/24 2:00:02 PM
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DToast is a member of the SC.

Trying to rid the country of horny.

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PeteyParker
04/30/24 2:02:06 PM
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punkfanalways posted...
You need ID to buy alcohol. You need ID to buy tobacco products. You need ID to buy porn in real life. I dont get why needing ID to view porn online is a bad thing.

It is a pain in the ass having to get a new driver's license every time I go to buy wine because the store keeps my ID.

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Southernfatman
04/30/24 2:03:34 PM
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Corrupt illegitimate court full of religious people.

punkfanalways posted...
You need ID to buy alcohol. You need ID to buy tobacco products. You need ID to buy porn in real life. I dont get why needing ID to view porn online is a bad thing.

The info could, and inevitably will, be hacked and so many people will be blackmailed for their kinks. Then there's the risk of the government spying on people too. Republicans in charge will use it to target LGBT+ people amongst others.

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Full_Pokedex
04/30/24 2:04:40 PM
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punkfanalways posted...
You need ID to buy alcohol. You need ID to buy tobacco products. You need ID to buy porn in real life. I dont get why needing ID to view porn online is a bad thing.
You're talking to the group that doesn't want ID a requirement to vote.

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cjsdowg
04/30/24 2:04:50 PM
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punkfanalways posted...
You need ID to buy alcohol. You need ID to buy tobacco products. You need ID to buy porn in real life. I dont get why needing ID to view porn online is a bad thing.

Because I am in my own home and know should know the type of porn I enjoy. How about that.

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ButteryMales
04/30/24 2:05:19 PM
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punkfanalways posted...
You need ID to buy alcohol. You need ID to buy tobacco products. You need ID to buy porn in real life. I dont get why needing ID to view porn online is a bad thing.
A clerk just looks at your ID not takes a picture and shares your porn habits with Google.
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DrizztLink
04/30/24 2:05:38 PM
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Full_Pokedex posted...
You're talking to the group that doesn't want ID a requirement to vote.
Duncan.

Get the fuck out before you say something you'll regret.

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Kaldrenthebold
04/30/24 2:06:14 PM
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Full_Pokedex posted...
You're talking to the group that doesn't want ID a requirement to vote.

Shut the fuck up

punkfanalways posted...
You need ID to buy alcohol. You need ID to buy tobacco products. You need ID to buy porn in real life. I dont get why needing ID to view porn online is a bad thing.

I haven't been carded buying alcohol for a long long long time. Same with R rated movies or even cigarettes when I did smoke.

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Strider102
04/30/24 2:06:26 PM
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Full_Pokedex posted...
You're talking to the group that doesn't want ID a requirement to vote.

More pearls of wisdom from Duncan.

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darkace77450
04/30/24 2:06:30 PM
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Texas, where you need a government ID to watch porn but not buy a gun.
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hockeybabe89
04/30/24 2:06:55 PM
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Dinka da chrlden

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punkfanalways
04/30/24 2:06:55 PM
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darkace77450 posted...
Texas, where you need a government ID to watch porn but not buy a gun.

I dont agree with that either for what its worth.
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Baha05
04/30/24 2:07:03 PM
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Kaldrenthebold posted...
Shut the fuck up

I haven't been carded buying alcohol for a long long long time. Same with R rated movies or even cigarettes when I did smoke.
Someone isnt doing their legally required part of the job if you arent carded for alcohol.

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havean776
04/30/24 2:10:53 PM
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punkfanalways posted...
You need ID to buy alcohol. You need ID to buy tobacco products. You need ID to buy porn in real life. I dont get why needing ID to view porn online is a bad thing.
Yeah when have sites ever had data breaches right?

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DrizztLink
04/30/24 2:13:23 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Reasonable fear when watching two dudes kiss would be enough to label you a pedophilic enemy of the state under one possible administration.

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havean776
04/30/24 2:14:41 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

? Is that an unfounded fear or something to you?

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DrizztLink
04/30/24 2:14:54 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

I'm not disputing your point, just adding to it.

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Heineken14
04/30/24 2:15:51 PM
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Full_Pokedex posted...
You're talking to the group that doesn't want ID a requirement to vote.

*notices username*

Ope, almost got me there!

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ButteryMales
04/30/24 2:19:13 PM
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DrizztLink posted...
Reasonable fear when watching two dudes kiss would be enough to label you a pedophilic enemy of the state under one possible administration.
Texas just used the first amendment to wipe their ass with no pushback from the federal government. There's already nothing stopping them.
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havean776
04/30/24 2:19:37 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

What's to discuss? You either feel it's an unfounded fear or you don't.

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Solid_Seb
04/30/24 2:23:16 PM
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Aside from the points about data security and government spying, it opens up a whole new situation of identity fraud, where with enough info someone could use your identity to (intentionally or not) get you into serious trouble. Doesn't seem worth the risk considering kids who want to see porn will figure things out anyways.
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Umbreon
04/30/24 2:25:17 PM
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Baha05 posted...
Someone isnt doing their legally required part of the job if you arent carded for alcohol.

Some places don't card you if you obviously look old enough or if you're a known regular of age. Not sure whatever or not that's strictly legal but I'm not about to report not being carded when I'm 35.

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ScazarMeltex
04/30/24 2:25:17 PM
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ButteryMales posted...
Texas just used the first amendment to wipe their ass with no pushback from the federal government. There's already nothing stopping them.
There is a way to stop them, it's just moddable to talk about.

This will last just long enough for the first data breach when a ton of prominent right wing politicians have their love of trans porn leaked.

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RchHomieQuanChi
04/30/24 2:26:35 PM
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punkfanalways posted...
You need ID to buy alcohol. You need ID to buy tobacco products. You need ID to buy porn in real life. I dont get why needing ID to view porn online is a bad thing.

Because now you're providing very personal information to a website where your data can be stored and shared with 3rd parties (and also compromised if part of a security breach).

And any potential "benefits" to this are negligible at best and non-existent at worst. It should really be the parent's responsibility to monitor that kind of shit. And tbh, nothing is inherently wrong with teens watching porn, so long as there's not an adult trying to groom them with it.

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GiftedACIII
04/30/24 2:29:25 PM
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punkfanalways posted...
You need ID to buy alcohol. You need ID to buy tobacco products. You need ID to buy porn in real life. I dont get why needing ID to view porn online is a bad thing.
Besides the fact that physical stores is much different than digital, you aren't legally required to have ID to simply be inside the stores.

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SaikyoStyle
04/30/24 2:30:15 PM
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Church is more harmful to minors than porn is.

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havean776
04/30/24 2:32:45 PM
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[LFAQs-redacted-quote]


[LFAQs-redacted-quote]

Why are you so hostile just because I feel it is perfectly reasnable to not trust my ID to a website?
Why do you feel this is somehow not an valid feeling?


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DrizztLink
04/30/24 2:34:05 PM
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havean776 posted...
Why do you feel this is somehow not an valid feeling?
Probably because you read his post wrong.

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havean776
04/30/24 2:35:41 PM
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DrizztLink posted...
Probably because you read his post wrong.
Well help me understand it than. It seems to me he is downplaying data breech as though its a minor issue.

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Kaldrenthebold
04/30/24 2:36:50 PM
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Umbreon posted...
Some places don't card you if you obviously look old enough or if you're a known regular of age. Not sure whatever or not that's strictly legal but I'm not about to report not being carded when I'm 35.


Yep I'm 35, I don't get carded anymore. I did once in the past couple years and I felt flattered, and my wife got carded when we saw Deadpool in the theaters, but yeah.

The big deal here is: a random person looking at my birthdate and my face and then giving back my ID is a far, far cry from whatever shady shit porn sites would do and I would not want them having my ID associated with anything about the usage of that site. It's a stupid and unenforceable law by puritanical evangelists that "WON'T YOU THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!" is all they think about (never mind that their states are often the most degenerate due to the outdated mantra of evangelical Christianity)

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RchHomieQuanChi
04/30/24 2:38:55 PM
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Kaldrenthebold posted...
Yep I'm 35, I don't get carded anymore. I did once in the past couple years and I felt flattered, and my wife got carded when we saw Deadpool in the theaters, but yeah.

The big deal here is: a random person looking at my birthdate and my face and then giving back my ID is a far, far cry from whatever shady shit porn sites would do and I would not want them having my ID associated with anything about the usage of that site. It's a stupid and unenforceable law by puritanical evangelists that "WON'T YOU THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!" is all they think about (never mind that their states are often the most degenerate due to the outdated mantra of evangelical Christianity)

Not to mention the "WON'T YOU THINK OF THE CHILDREN?!" states' reaction to school shootings is typically "Eh, shit happens. Not worth our freedom."

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Sandalorn
04/30/24 2:40:29 PM
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Full_Pokedex posted...
You're talking to the group that doesn't want ID a requirement to vote.


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WingsOfGood
04/30/24 2:41:54 PM
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To think we regressed from 1997
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HighSeraph
04/30/24 2:41:59 PM
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I want Duncan to explain to me why requiring an ID to vote is a good thing and to do so without bringing up voter fraud that barely exists

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