PornHub traffic in Louisiana drops 80% after digital ID requirement
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I don't like internet regulation period, even when its stated goals conform to my moral sensibilities, because I have enough common sense to know that that is not the real goal.
This has always been the problem with boomercon politics. It's always, "Freedom! Free speech! School choice! Medical freedom! Free to own guns! Free to pray in schools! Oh, but you better put your jackboots down on video games and porn, because I don't like the way other parents raise their children, so I want the government to do it for them!"
The thing is, there's age restriction on porn in real life. Unless your position is that there shouldn't be an age restriction on porn period, opposing an online age check would just be hypocritical.
And just because people will still get porn doesn't mean it's going to be pointless.
We have laws against murders and that doesn't stop people from committing murders, but it doesn't mean we do away with all laws against murder.
ID requirements in real life don't give the state and a hundred third parties the power to track every other purchase you make and every other place you visit. Internet ID checks do have that effect, and I would argue that that is the point of this law. My problem with it is not its stated goals, which I'm sympathetic to. My problem isn't even that it won't work, which it won't. My problem is that it undermines the principles of online privacy and anonymity, and that that is its real goal.
You're not wrong, and there should be privacy measures in place, but if you're that concerned, just buy your porn in real life or get your porn from the millions of other websites.
Quitting your porn addiction is also a solution.
You have to prove your age and identity and there's no way for a website to look at a picture of your ID and not know if it's fake or not or whether you're actually the person submitting that ID. A physical location has lesser restrictions because they get to see you in person and they can check your ID to see if it's fake or if the photo on the ID doesn't match the person presenting it.
Is it just "boomercon" politics that does that? I see similar issues with politics in general. Like the rural/urban cultural split, but rural areas are expected to obey laws put forward by urbanites. Also more obviously, legislation pushed forward by lunatics that's intended to manipulate sane humans. There's always a message that it's for everyone's own good, but it rarely is.