Porn is everywhere. 80 percent of the web is porn. There’s porn here on Lemmy and on Mastodon. It seems like a whack-a-mole situation .
You can block anything if you’re stupid enough to think it’s going to work.
It’s not a war on
drugsporn, it’s a war on personal freedom, OK? Keep that in mind at all times.It’s more sinister than that - Project 2025 explicitly says that one step in the plan is to classify anything pro-LGBTQ as porn. Make porn illegal, and you’ve just made being LGBTQ or an ally illegal.
Be openly LGBTQ or say anything supportive in front of someone under the age of 18? You’ve now committed a sexual offense involving a minor.
And, even before Trump was elected, Republican lawmakers were making the first moves towards mandating the death penalty for sexual offenses involving a minor.
As you’ve accurately identified, they can’t. Best they have is say “nooo you can’t” and hope sites comply out of pure fear. Even if they could, VPN.
They also completely bungled prohibition, drug prohibition, and the states with restrictive gun laws are bungling that. And women from the anti abortion states can still get out of state abortions.
Bans don’t actually work, especially when there’s already an abundance and the banned thing in question is easy to produce.
I will just add how Republicans try to ban everything they don’t like, but when it comes to banning guns they are like “Bans Don’t Work!”
The point is that Republicans never do anything in good faith. It’s always lies and hypocrisy.
Conservatives have been labeling anything and everything they don’t like as “porn”. A queer romance novel is “porn”. Two male characters kissing on television is “porn”. Drag queen story time is “porn”. The picture book Heather Has Two Mommies is “porn”. And the thing they’re really most afraid of, educational resources for LGBTQ youth are “porn”.
So by declaring porn illegal, they now have a pretext to go after everything they call “porn”. Their goal isn’t to remove all porn from the internet, it’s to make it harder for people who need those educational resources to access them. It’s not about porn, it’s about “porn”.
It’s not about porn, it’s about
“porn”controlling the population.FTFY. It’s always about authoritarianism and control of the people.
The same way they banned drugs. Not very well.
More like whack-a-hole am I right?
I’ll see myself out.
Lol
You’re 100% correct, this is totally a whack-a-mole situation. Some websites follow the law, and some don’t. I have no intention of sharing not only my identity, but sensitive data to access these websites. I use a VPN to bypass this on those websites that comply.
This is getting out of hand. I feel that we have more government in areas it absolutely doesn’t belong, and not enough where it belongs.
I feel that we have more government in areas it absolutely doesn’t belong, and not enough where it belongs.
smALl GovERnmEnT
Government that wants to spy on you but can’t directly prohibit encryption, so this is the work around. Prohibit porn, people go for VPN. Oohh, now we have to prohibit VPN which we can’t because its a required tool plus it’s really hard to prohibit… so what else can we do, then? Government backdoor keys ftw!
Do you care to elaborate? I can’t figure out what exactly it is you’re trying to say here.
Republicans are traditionally, and on paper, the party of “small government”. “Fuck off feds, it’s none of your business” type shit. Some just wanted a small central government that let states and local government make their own choices, some wanted as small a government as possible at all levels.
Which is also why you see a minority of old school republican voters refusing to call Trump’s clown show republican. And why I personally got so upset watching all the republican pearl clutching about homosexuality. How in the fuck is that anyone’s business?
That capitalization style is meant to be mocking, because the current dipshits in power clearly don’t have any intentions of “small government”.
Don’t they get the common VPN IP and just block them
Porn sites don’t really want to comply with the ID laws. They’re doing just enough to not get fined by the Land of the Free. They want you to use a VPN so they can continue to have your business without dealing with the ID bullshit. If your IP is not in a bible state they have no reason to believe that they must comply.
I shall cross that bridge when I get to it. For now, it works.
It is impossible. US states make the law, and require the websites to self-block the IP addresses within the state using geo-ip. It’s a flawed solution, but comes with the benefit of being able to sue any semi-large website for not self-blocking and the state receives free fine money. Best part is the state doesn’t actually have to do anything, just pass the law and rake in the publicity.
Poorly.
And inefficiently!
Really? Have you all not realized that removed almost all porn a few years ago. Anything that wasn’t from a studio or only fans account was removed. All these sites are owned by the same company. Its easy for them to purge content or restrict access. Even with a VPN, they’ll just find the IP they use and ban those over time
I’m willing to bet that, since that happened right as onlyfans took off, most of the amateurs were already looking to onlyfans as a way to monetize their hobby. Surely “no amateur content” on pornhub likely pushed them more to it but I think it was really inevitable with all that, and the affordability of decent camera equipment I’m sure helped.
That said, I’m fairly certain that you can still have “amateur” content on PH you just need to verify it as you somehow, and then there’s always xhamster, erome, and m*****less (iykyk, and if not, leave it that way) and a myriad of other sketchy as fuck sites that don’t care the source of their videos.
I really hope to see official declare a “war on porn”. Considering how terrorism and drugs won the previous two, I’m sure it’s gonna be a fun watch from the sidelines.
I don’t know if terrorism or drugs have “won.” The government is able to use them to fuck up the lives of people who they don’t like… see venezuela and what they’re trying to do with antifa.
It’s all a big plan to bring sex and rape back into real life public parks and bathrooms.
- Regulate all traffic sent or received across the state.
- Send traffic through a firewall.
- decrypt traffic
- drop traffic that can’t be decrypted.
Another easier way:
- Regulate ISPs with new state laws.
- require they block porn.
- Sue ISPs that violate the law.
decrypt traffic
drop traffic that can’t be decrypted.
This would be an absolute fucking disaster for myriad reasons both technical and practical. Any politician who earnestly suggests it as any sort of solution 100% has no idea what they’re talking about and should not be taken seriously.
Yes, politicians talk about trying to do something like that, but the reality is that it would destroy security for businesses, institutions, and even the government itself. Encryption and VPNs are crucial to just about any modern business of even moderate size.
Many US companies have businesses inside China, it’s bad but it’s not impossible. I wouldn’t be surprised if a state actually doesn’t.
Those also companies use VPNs when they transmit, bring burner devices, and take other countermeasures to try protect their data from theft.
Additionally, there are plenty of people who are citizens there and still get around their firewall.
Actually getting rid of encryption or making it ineffective would be a disaster: IP theft, identity theft, and all sorts of other problems would greatly intensify without it.
I agree, but I was answering OPs question on how it would be done and an example of similar tech already in use at scale.
Aka, the great Chinese firewall
Hiding data in innocuous data could also work, eg by altering the pixel values of images subtly
That’s really hard to do over https.
Send state troopers into ISPs and force them to things at gunpoint.
