re: Court Rules in Pornhub Favor in Finding Texas Age-Verification Law Violates 1st Amendment

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Conservatives who value self-sufficiency should rejoice.

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They will.

Many Republicans are simply "right wing" progressives though. They love authoritarianism until it comes after their money, and it will.

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but how is this going to be used against you?

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This mentality seems too close to "if you've got nothing to hide, why are you opposed to being searched?".

Who knows exactly HOW it could be used against someone? Maybe the account is linked to a detailed search history of every video a person watches. Maybe one day it affects your ability to secure a loan or credit. That might sound far fetched, but just look how credit card companies are refusing to do business with firearms dealers. You never know where some ESG social credit score system is going to take us.
People who value freedom generally want privacy from being put into a database. Similar to a national gun registry. Would you ask: "Why do you have a problem being on a national government registration of private gun owners?"

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This kind of law will 100% lead to demands for ID verification from people who want to look up something like where to get condoms or IUD info so they can create a database of birth control users, which again, is something they want to fricking criminalize.

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Louisiana has this ID law and there have been no attempts to do anything like you say.

I think this law is an overreach of government authority on its own. Not an underhanded attempt to do something else.

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I get people holding out for principle, but how is this going to be used against you? This isn't Ashley Madison. Who gives a frick if anyone knows you visited a porn site? That's pretty tame on the list of things to be outed online for.

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See above post. Everyone does it but Louisiana and America has a big religious crowd that although they look at porn, will chastise others for doing the same as it is a shameful sin

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I had to show my ID at 60 y/o to buy a lottery ticket today.

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Did they make a photocopy and/or enter all you PII into a database?

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That's the issue here. If you flash your ID to buy alcohol or tobacco, go into clubs, buy lottery tickets, the person visually checks your age (and makes sure it's a reasonable likeness). They don't take a snapshot of your ID and enter it into record, allowing someone to potentially track every time you do so. Nobody wants to be tracked doing something legal. If you voluntarily want to announce or record that you do something, that's your right.

Just a little perspective here; in the 90's for a little while I did security for a local bank. The manner of payment was that they opened an account for you, and deposited your check into that. One day, I overheard some employees gossiping about somebody, and who they wrote checks to/used debit card with. At that moment I became aware of the dangers of loss of privacy (and from there on out I immediately wrote a check for my full pay and put it in my credit union).

It sounds like a different issue, but you see intrusions into privacy all the time now. Doctors asking if you own firearms, streaming services asking about your gender, shite like that. My point of view is it's nobody's business but your own, and it's between you and God (if you so believe) what you legally do in private.

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Louisiana has this ID law and there have been no attempts to do anything like you say.

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Don’t worry, La DMV has your data protected…. Oh wait

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None of that has to do with freedom of speech which it appears was the basis of the judge's ruling.

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But it does.

Most conservatives are, rightly, aggressively opposed to firearm registration laws because they, rightly, view that as having a chilling effect on the exercise of a constitutional right.

If the burdens placed on accessing or distributing certain forms of speech are deemed to have a chilling effect, then it’s a potential constitutional violation.

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That’s a false equivalency if I’ve ever seen one.

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Yup. It’s just as stupid as someone saying they support religious liberty and then someone accusing them of being in favor of child sacrifice.

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See above post. Everyone does it but Louisiana and America has a big religious crowd that although they look at porn, will chastise others for doing the same as it is a shameful sin

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Porn is harmful and destructive for children. shite, it is for adults.

While I think the law is misguided just a bit, I don't understand the pushback regarding the harmful nature of porn.

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ok. are you an anarchist? because if not, you support government oversight and control

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Well done doubling up on the false dichotomies