Papers please: for millions of Americans, accessing online pornography now requires a government ID. It could have global implications for the future of the web.
  • CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
    65·
    5 months ago

    Morons, all of them. You’re not getting that genie back in the bottle.

    I grew up pre-internet and still found plenty of porn, as did the hypocrites making these laws.

    • azimir@lemmy.mlEnglish
      29·
      5 months ago

      There was some way to either steal a “dirty” magazine, buy one from an older teenager, or check out the one you found at your friend’s house that his dad had in a drawer somewhere.

      If all else failed, there was always the Sears catalog.

      Pitching your desire to block pornography against the collective sex drives of the whole populace is a recipe for you losing and look stupid doing it.

  • umami_wasabi@lemmy.mlEnglish
    55·
    5 months ago

    Easiest solution: point the fucking DNS to a family safe one and lock it behind passcode. Done.

    This is how you “protect the children.” Not by making a burden on everyone else. I don’t need age verification on the internet, ever.

  • SomeGuy69@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    5 months ago

    After war on drugs failed you got to spend all that anger on something and find a new enemy.