Source: thedailybeast.com 1/16/24
A bipartisan group of lawmakers in Ohio have proposed a new bill that would require porn sites to verify the age of their users in the state in a bid to keep explicit online content out of the hands of minors. Senate Bill 212, as it’s known, mandates that would have would-be degenerates submit a photo of their state ID or provide their personal information to a third-party company before allowing them access to pornography. Companies that fail to comply could be slapped with stiff penalties. Asked by News 5 Cleveland if the new bill is “Orwellian,” Lt. Gov. Jon Husted (R), a backer of the bill, replied, “It’s not very Orwellian—it’s protecting kids from things we know harm them, that’s called responsible citizenry.” I
Guess they’ve never heard of VPNs in Ohio (Or Louisiana).
All they want is another way to track people that view porn or anything else
I’m taking bets on how long this will survive in the courts if enacted! A week?
It’s a good thing with the right intentions.
We have laws that check ID for the sale of tobacco and liquor so that it’s not sold to minors.
You can’t go into a store that sells pornography and buy it unless you prove your age, so what’s the big deal.
You can try to rationalize it and say ‘They’ll just go somewhere else and watch it”, but this makes it harder.to do that.
I wouldn’t want my underage son or daughter watching pornography online.
How about you?? Y/N
( And don’t try to say that’s not the point, because it IS the point!)
“Pornhub’s parent company said that it had complied with a similar law in Louisiana to devastating results. “Since then, our traffic in Louisiana dropped approximately 80 percent….these people did not stop looking for porn. They just migrated to darker corners of the internet that don’t ask users to verify age, that don’t follow the law, that don’t take user safety seriously, and that often don’t even moderate content.”
The Pornhub spokesman just described the company! They don’t follow the law and moderate content, given that they’ve repeatedly been in hot water for posting CSAM content on their website. Pornhub just recently lost to a class action suit filed by a group of survivors. These so called “adult sites can be gateways into cp, especially when they have teen categories with pop ups that lead to illegal sites. I think it’s time these companies share some skin in the game, instead of only users subjected to draconian cp laws. I don’t know if this is the way to do it, but if a consumer did stumble onto some cp material via Pornhub, investigators will have their credit card number and payment to Pornhub as the middle-man. If I go down, they’re going down with me.
A point of this new law that concerns me is that they are outsourcing the ID checks to a third-party company.
What type of controls will there be on the third-party company releasing the data they’ll surely gather on who accesses porn sites? Seems like a system ready for abuse of the data, whether it be for marketing purposes, release to government, or some other nefarious purpose.
This wouldn’t even remotely hold up in court.
It’s not “responsible citizenry.” It’s totalitarianism. This is a parental issue, not a government one. I for one cringe at the thought of legislatures that conflate those issues or don’t know the difference between them.
Gee, thanks, dude, for only making it a little Orwellian. Kinda like being very pregnant versus a little bit pregnant…
In Brazil porn is broadcast on network TV after midnight. Parents send kids to the store to pick up wine and beer. National heroes get honored in Playboy foldouts first, then grace the cover of the Nation’s Constitution. Thank God American pledge-of-allegiancers don’t share their deranged ideologies and joy of life.
This attack on “porn” is bullshit most people didn’t need an id to vote multiple times in the 2020 election but these idiots are wanting to card people for what they consider porn genius because making sure only adults watch porn is more important than a fair election