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Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas to object to a state law that requires the company to verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the site.

Texas residents who visit the site are met with a message from the company that criticizes the state’s elected officials who are requiring them to track the age of users.

The company said the newly passed law impinges on “the rights of adults to access protected speech” and fails to pass strict scrutiny by “employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’s stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors.”

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[–] Starkstruck 84 points 7 months ago (3 children)

At least this'll probably push more people to hate Republicans. Like, fucking with a man's porn supply is just political suicide. At least I hope it is.

[–] geekworking 47 points 7 months ago

Don't worry they'll find a way to blame Biden.

Anything is possible when logic, facts, and reality don't matter.

[–] madcaesar 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Maybe.... I would have thought treating women like chattel would do it... But apparently not.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

cattle ? or is chattel a thing ? not american speaker

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Chattel is a specific type of slavery:

In chattel slavery, the slave is legally rendered the personal property (chattel) of the slave owner.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery

[–] Zahille7 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm almost afraid to ask, but what other forms of slavery are there that means you aren't the property of a slave owner?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Slaves can also be owned by the state, rather than individuals. Weirdly some empires had slave armies, for example. In other cases slaves have significant rights, including their own property; Roman slaves could save money and buy their own freedom (although many slaves were worked to death in mines, or used for sex, so it was definitely still shit). In some cultures children of slaves were free (technically, although still starting from a terrible position). There was also indentured servitude, where you agreed to be a slave for a limited time period - a lot of people came to the Americas for free, but were slaves for a few years in exchange (before Europeans started buying chattel slaves from Africa, which gave better return on their investment, as long as you didn't mind being evil).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

alright thanks

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

They should have also added a bit about big government intrusion into their personal privacy rights. They have to speak the conservative language to conservatives to really get them riled up.