Agree it's fucking bullshit, but the main thing you have to ask yourself is, why are you still in Alabama?
It stops when the government has full control and logs over your actions everywhere.
Well, they def already have most of it lol
Yeah, a VPN is fine if I NEED.. to get around it lol But it's a dumb law and I understand why it exist, but let the parents be parents. That or create an age verification deal.
Yeah but remember it's not a ban, it's a self imposed block because they don't want to do the age verification stuff. Sites based outside of the the US work in FL.
True, it's not really a ban. Technically speaking
yeah, strong supporters of the 2nd amendment there, the 1st, not so much...
Cant have the first without the 2nd lol
it's not really tied to a political orientation; if anyone is paying attention, the UK has recently put in place one of the strongest online censorship/verification requirements in the world -- and it came from the progressive center-left
I'm sure some out of touch rich fucks in a secret society somewhere are sitting around a table congratulating each other, thinking this will fix the world's birth rate problem.
It stops with the total de-anonymisation of the internet. That's the goal: to know what everyone everywhere is doing online at all times. We're seeing this in the UK, where people are vigorously arrested for Social Media posts and they've just rolled out laughably ineffective facial verification non-sense. "Helpings the kids" is a just the convenient lie that enough people buy in to so this can get done. It starts with blocking the vague "terrible no-good" and then it seeps into other things.
wasn't so heated -- you were just the last in a chain of posts that started essentially with "why live in the south then?" and I was adding to that stack to say: in fact it's pretty much everywhere now, there are no definite regional (eg. california has instituted harsh measures of various kinds regarding 'net) nor political bounds for it.
One thing no politician says is how a kid watching shocking videos for the first time will affect them other than the shock. Is there any serious study about it?
I grew up in TN. My friend once asked what it'd take to come back, as I left twenty years ago. I told him the truth; I wouldn't come back for a mountain cave in my name overflowing with gold bricks and bags of cash. TN is the asshole of this country. I grew up in East TN too, which is literally the only nice part of it as the rest of it is just an absolute dump, and I'd honestly rather be homeless in a big city in the north than live anywhere in the south. I've lived in FL too, absolute shit hole.
This isn't a study, it's a comission with poor data created by politicians trying to force a link between a correlation and a causation ("more people are watching porn and more violence against women is happening, therefore porn is the cause"). It ignores extremely important data like the cultural changes in UK.
