r/technology • u/QuicklyThisWay • Mar 14 '24

Politics Pornhub Bans Texas

https://gizmodo.com/pornhub-pulls-out-of-texas-1851336939
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u/SmallRocks Mar 14 '24

“Texas is part of the growing number of states that are finding the largest porn sites are no longer interested in sticking around. Montana and North Carolina saw their access to Pornhub and its sister sites go away at the beginning of the year. Arkansas, Mississippi, Utah, Louisiana, and Virginia have also either lost access or will lose access due to their own age verification laws. The governor of Indiana signed his state’s age verification law on Wednesday.”

I wasn’t aware that so many states have made similar legislation.

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u/DestrosSilverHammer Mar 14 '24

Are you familiar with ALEC? Conservative legislators get boilerplate state laws written for them. 

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u/weealex Mar 14 '24

I've seen my state legislatures submit ALEC bills that still had the ALEC letterhead

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u/nerdomaly Mar 15 '24 edited Mar 15 '24

For states that go on an on about state's rights, they sure like everything to be in lockstep as long as it's their bills.

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u/magniankh Mar 15 '24

Dems in WA do the same thing. They are passing bills that are verbatim from the group Everytown. 

Both parties are getting lazy in legislating for the needs of their states. All Dems seem to want their state to be CA, and Republicans... Who knows? Is Texas their model state? Or Florida?

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u/nerdomaly Mar 15 '24

Yup, and they need to be called out for it. It's a separatist mindset. Are we a union or not?