re: Bill advances to fine porn sites not verifying age of users

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Why do these people lie?

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Because larger competition(big porn), no pun intended, pays the bastions of our morals to create barriers to entry for their competition(little start up porn, onlyfans, private streaming).

Sounds like the are paying politicians to fortify their place in the future against private streaming.

In classic fashion, they are standing on the fear of child-centered lies while they collect their fee. And if you disagree you are lobbying for child porn instead of calling out more barriers to entry against entrepreneur-ship.

Bugs, cardboard houses, electric vehicles that work when user compliance is achieved, it's all to ensure you have to feed their system without a say in it. And the motion of the ocean doesn't matter in size when business is concerned.

Why would the politicians stand up for those who can't pay them competitively?

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I've visited alot of porn sites and never come across this.

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If you have visited any of the Tubes (where individuals can upload) you have likely unknowingly seen some Traci Lords type video. This law doesn't do anything to prevent that or worse.

Or you know you can just sign up for a free proxy like OpenDNS and block porn like every corporation in America does instead of relying on daddy government to parent your kids.

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What site is that?

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The next question should be "how many porn sites did you try to access to determine this was the largest non compliant one?"

are they going to fine google image search 5000 a day?

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With only one click I was able to access hardcore pornography on the landing page alone, depicting acts of incest, sexual assault, rape, and sex with minors,

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Probably dont want to admit you looked at child porn to the newspaper, but you do you *checks notes* State Rep.

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So this would penalize Google, Microsoft, Apple, Twitter, etc

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Or you know you can just sign up for a free proxy like OpenDNS and block porn like every corporation in America does instead of relying on daddy government to parent your kids.

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This is a sad straw-man argument. Of course the ultimate responsibility for a child is their parents. But we live in a society that does have, at least for now, some modicum of civility and order left.

If your kid goes into a store to buy a bottle of vodka and a pack of smokes, that store should just sell them these things without facing consequences? After all, it’s not up to the store to parent your kids. What if your kid wanted to buy a gun? Or get a tattoo? Why is it we expect, under penalty of law, businesses that sell alcohol, tobacco, firearms, fireworks, and tattoos to verify their customers are legally old enough to have those products, but for some reason the porn industry is exempt from this same standard?

Why is the porn industry special?