Porn site (XHamster) bans North Carolina users due to state's anti-LGBT laws
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Of course. I shouldn't have expected any intelligence from HuffPo writers
It's legal, a business can choose where they do business in.
Secret Fawful
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Well, there's this site called Newgrounds...
This is some incentive to get the people to pressure the government into changing stupid, shitty laws.
Sho_Nuff82
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Whoa that's fucking harsh.
How is this different from company X refusing to do business in the state due to the laws? Or the NFL/NBA/MLB threatening to pull their All-Star game/whatever if the law is passed?
A Link to the Past
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Seriously, this is a sucky problem that the porn industry has. I mean good on XHamster for making a big move for the sake of LGBT people, but I'd love it if they didn't use such offensive terminology.
A sentence worse than death. I vote for all pornsites and torrents sites to ban North Carolina and Mississippi from their services until they change those dumb laws. Watch them squirm without porn and suffer the "Great Blue Balls Depression of 2016"
ShadowSwordmaster
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The next step should be the entire South.
How About No
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Goddamn
You mean all of them? Not that I'm a fan of the term either.
....griiiiiiiin.
You mean all of them? Not that I'm a fan of the term either.
....griiiiiiiin.
Hahaha
Angelus Errare
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Starve the beast.
Okay, girls with penises is one thing, but uh fetuses?
killertofu
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lol this is hilarious
Although, cmon...porn is kind of racist
Although, cmon...porn is kind of racist
Hmmm...
Using businesses to launch siege warfare on states is interesting and perhaps problematic because businesses should overall not take strongly opinionated stances outside it's direct business (at least if you don't believe in the idea of corporate personhood). For now, I'll enjoy this for what it is but the overall trend is a bit unsettling.
Using businesses to launch siege warfare on states is interesting and perhaps problematic because businesses should overall not take strongly opinionated stances outside it's direct business (at least if you don't believe in the idea of corporate personhood). For now, I'll enjoy this for what it is but the overall trend is a bit unsettling.
TheGreatDirector
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To be fair it's not like Xhamster coined the term themselves, it's just what all of the porn industry labels it so it becomes the top tag for it on video hosting sites.
Hah hah. Despite not being a fan of the stupid slang for trans porn this is pretty funny.
Secret Fawful
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Looks like they've been using Brand XXX.
lol. I love that my phone autocorrected me there.
What. Businesses have been influencing politics since forever.
Maybe attempt to buck the trend then if they're so sympathetic to the community. I'm sure they could at least consider it.
Or they could just get free publicity doing this.
A Link to the Past
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Entirely understandable, but I still think it's worthy of criticism to note that these kinds of sites could make headway. At the very least, relabeling these videos to not use appropriate terminology and when someone searches for the inappropriate terminology still turn up those results.
This is entirely appropriate, and has been a thing for civil rights for a long time. A company should not have to abide by oppressive governments.
Grover Cleveland
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Art Pope about to spin this into a positive.
"Good, the less godless heathens to infect the state the better!"
"JesusHub ain't blocked!"
And I get the idea behind it, but the only way the whole "pressuring people into partitioning the government to change their ways" works in the case of xhamster is um...a whole bunch of folks coming out here admitting their porn watching habits have been disrupted which is...well not all that likely.
"Good, the less godless heathens to infect the state the better!"
"JesusHub ain't blocked!"
And I get the idea behind it, but the only way the whole "pressuring people into partitioning the government to change their ways" works in the case of xhamster is um...a whole bunch of folks coming out here admitting their porn watching habits have been disrupted which is...well not all that likely.
Messofanego
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That's clever. Porn is what keeps the world turning around, so disrupting a North Carolina person's regular activity will get them to notice "hey maybe we should take that law down...".
umop_3pisdn
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And I'll still give it to them for something like this, even if the "shemale" thing in porn is wack.
Now what about they stop using the term " shemale " and switch it for " transwomen " (someone correct me if i'm wrong) ?
It's weird to defend trans rights and still call it " shemale " porn.
LMAO
It's weird to defend trans rights and still call it " shemale " porn.
LMAO
It's " you can't explain that " though 
Rollo Lawson
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Brilliant way to raise awareness. Just sayin if I was in NC and I didn't know what was going on, Id certainly know now. Xhamster is dope
Xamtheking
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It's a porn site
I don't think it's the most complicated thing to think about
A Pretty Panda
fuckin' called it, man
Someone please post a screenshot of the pornless porn site
scorcher59
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Thread delivers!
DontBeThatGuy
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Porno land is ass backwards in a lot of ways, hence sites like Dogfart.
Banning people from one state from using service due to law passed by state is crazy. Basically it is what right-ultra-wing would do in the same situation - heck, thats what Trump promises for wide range of people if he comes to power.
Of course, they are doing it for publicity but still.
Salty Rice
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North Carolina will be a dead soon.
Without their porn people gonna move as fast as they can.
Without their porn people gonna move as fast as they can.
Porn is one thing where you shouldn't worry about terminology. It's 90% of the time wrong anyway.
half of the German porn isn't even german
TheMan
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wow, that's the most convincing male to female transition i've ever seen.
on the other hand a lot of her photos make her look like she's made of plastic- it's uncanny.
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Now if RedTube and PornHub follow suit, then North Carolina will repeal the laws.
Or create an underground black market for porn.
Or create an underground black market for porn.
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