PornHub traffic in Louisiana drops 80% after digital ID requirement
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I know people are going to freak out about digital ID requirements but it's important to remember that porn has age restrictions in real life and you're required to show ID proving that you're +18yrs old to view/purchase porn.
It really was only a matter of time before they would start checking for age on the Internet.
Also, this isn't anything new. If you've ever tried buying a firearm or nicotine products online, you're required to prove your age - just like in person. I, personally, have submitted an ID to purchase nicotine products.
I actually found it a bit hypocritical that porn had no age check while firearms/nicotine did because you at least have to make a purchase in the case of the latter, while porn can be found for free.
And, at the end of the day, you will still be able to find free porn all over the internet, so it's just the major sites like PornHub are gonna be taken down a notch.
This isn't a victory of any sort you idiot. This is losing ground and you're dumb enough to celebrate it.
This is the thing. It ALWAYS starts with the acceptable target. That's how censorship on Reddit became so commonplace, they targeted the acceptable losses, and then grew and grew and grew.
I'm not losing sleep because loser coomers are having a harder time. But accepting this is accepting the method. I have principles against porn. I also have principles against Digital ID. I'm not going to compromise one for the other, and if you're so ready to compromise your principles, then chances are they aren't principles in the first place.
A good take from you of all people?
As I said, tradfaggots would sell us all to the devil to make marriage look good. They have no principles.
Firearms can't even be shipped directly to you and still require another FFL doing the background check and transfer.
That's probably why it didn't require an ID. One required a physical product to be shipped to a real address, the other was a video on the internet.
I can assume pretty confidently that if you tried to order a physical porn DVD to your house from any real company, it would have some form of ID check on it too.
IMO I don't think that's it.
If you were to pay for online porn, there would still be a delivery mechanism, just not a physical copy.
And, obviously, there's never been age verification for online porn until now.
The way it used to work is, just like with nicotine products, if you paid for it, there was a reasonable expectation that you were old enough to purchase it.
I'm pretty sure use of a credit card was the age verification, which works as well as the ID check now so I would rather they just required that. $1 charge or a test charge to make it basically free. It sidesteps the government overreach concerns.
the correct answer was getting rid of the age check, not extending it.
There is an amendment to the UK's Online Safety Bill that will apply age verification to any site that has NSFW accessible or hosted. Eventually they will come for every site. The likes of Twitter will have a dilemma - age restrict to 18+ and demand ID from everyone or block all NSFW content.
The other ultimate consequence of age verification will be the database and protocols of verification being hacked by "ethical hackers" and leaked as a "perverts database". Think the Ashley Madison hack and the shame and stigma that brought. That is ultimately what Government wants, an effective ban through fear and stigma as opposed to an actual ban which they would have to enforce with resources and money.
By ethical hackers, he means the government will leak it because you aren't respecting women enough.
I don't know who are the most worthless bastards on this earth, tradcucks or male feminists. At least the latter can claim brainwashing.
All this to stop the market for women correcting because everyone's scared of "muh birth rates". All markets need correcting. If only it was possible to short women's value. I'd be the next Michael Burry.