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An age verification bill in Kansas that is the most extreme in the country has passed both House and Senate and is on its way to the governor’s desk. The bill will make sites with more than 25 percent adult content liable to heavy fines if they don’t verify that visitors are over the age of 18. It also calls being gay “sexual conduct,” which critics say could set up the state for more censorship of LGBT+ citizens.

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[–] rockSlayer 141 points 8 months ago (5 children)

I'm fucking sick of these laws. Since when was the "party of small government" all about creating literal nanny states?

[–] [email protected] 83 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It always has been, just like how they claim to be fiscally responsible while bringing back trickle down economics to destroy government funding.

They have lied constantly for the nearly 3 decades I have been able to vote.

[–] FenrirIII 22 points 8 months ago

They take money away from education and remove laws/rules about lying. We're at the top of a mountain of shit built by conservatives and we're going to start sinking.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago

Since forever?... The party of small government is a slogan... No more true than the wings you get from drinking red bull

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Because they have never been the party of small government. You don't need to be the party of small government if you're the party of credulous rubes.

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[–] ghostrider2112 129 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Laughing as I picture spez and company trying to figure out what percentage of reddit is porn

[–] AtariDump 54 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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[–] joekar1990 30 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I mean Reddit has been trending in the direction to remove NSFW content completely from their site. A couple more laws like this would probably give them the ammo needed to say goodbye.

[–] Zron 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Tumblr tried to do that.

Tried

[–] chronicledmonocle 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And succeeded. Unfortunately, they also succeeded in killing their own platform at the same time.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

That's bound to go well.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago

He's gonna have to run a lot more ads to get those numbers down.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

I'd wager more than 25%

[–] [email protected] 119 points 8 months ago (19 children)

The anti gay part is the whole point. They're not protecting kids, they're protecting Christian control over kids (pay attention to who's actually doing all the child sex abuse)

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This bill is unconstitutional, but we'll have to wait and see if the insurrection-appointed SCOTUS will do their job or if this is like a gifted RV sort of ruling.

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[–] flames5123 64 points 8 months ago (2 children)

How will verification be done? Are they making the websites foot the bill for verification, which pornhub is super against, or are they going to make a centralized device verification, like how Louisiana did, allowing its residents to access pornhub again?

How is the 25% decided? Public content or private, like a Dropbox system? 25% by file size, length (how are pictures counted here), or just per item (would a gallery or picture be the item here)?

These legislatures know NOTHING about technology and how it all works and are just doing this for censorship and LGBTQ+ discrimination.

[–] pete_the_cat 28 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] bitchkat 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I'm 124 years old. Assuming the website lets you enter 1900 as the birth year.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I wouldn't be so sure, in some countries they want your drivers license or credit card info lol.

There are some sites I don't use anymore because of these changes

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[–] ExcursionInversion 52 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Going to repost this

They want to ban it nationwide

Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered

-A Promise to America", Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 5, Project 2025

[–] FenrirIII 16 points 8 months ago

So, holding onto all those old Playboy magazines can be considered an investment. My wife can't argue that!

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

Seems pretty easy to work around.

~~If a porn site has 10,000 videos, just add 2,501 non porn videos (just use public domain stuff) and make a button to hide those. Scale those numbers up/down as needed.~~

Just add a bunch of junk LLM-generated videos to pad out the content so that the number of actual porn videos remains 25% of the total. Then just provide a button to hide those AI-generated junk videos.

[–] SpaceNoodle 22 points 8 months ago (4 children)

No, they'd need 30,001 non-porn videos.

[–] EdibleFriend 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Are there even that many NON-porn videos on the internet?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (9 children)

Yes, but they're all of cats.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Perfect! This site contains 100% pussy!

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Edibles and math don't mix for me, lol

Still, just host 30,001 public domain videos or let some LLM generate videos automatically to keep the ratio in check.

I'm all about malicious compliance for stupid laws like this.

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[–] LEDZeppelin 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Land of the free, y’all!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)
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[–] samus12345 21 points 8 months ago

It also calls being gay “sexual conduct”

Okay, as long as it's illegal for everyone else other than asexual people to exist as well.

[–] werefreeatlast 19 points 8 months ago

Get ready for the real life lesson 😉. Mamma and Daddy are going to have to explain all sorts of stuff about birds and bees.

Daddy, what is a DP gangbang? Mom, my BF wants a threesome, is that a soda? No, we don't have sex, we only lick.

It's going to be perfect! And then those sexual retards are going to migrate to LA one day. Or maybe they go to Vegas for their wedding.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

Seems like I have to colour in my VPN map further

[–] AncientFutureNow 15 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Article is pay-walled. Does it say how many legislators voted for it?

I highly doubt the democratic governor would sign this bill. Does it have enough to override a veto?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

While the Kansas state legislature is almost entirely Republican, they don't tend to override the governor's veto too frequently as they are not as lock step due to having all the power.

Without checking the numbers, this seem like the kind of thing they would let the governor's veto atand so they can use it against her in the next election.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

She's term-limited at the end of this term.

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