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U.S. circuit court upholds Texas pornography age verification law | KXAN Austin - https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/u-s-circuit-court-upholds-texas-pornography-age-verification-law/

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let's see. Where did I leave that picture of myself? Oh yeah, here it is: https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/

[–] Whoresradish 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better to use republican politicians who have lots of pictures online.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I mean, here's mine

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I was going to use a picture from that site for my mastodon profile, but I decided to use an mri of my brain. Since that is an actual image of me.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Pictures of adult faces are really difficult to find... VPNs also don't exist.

[–] surewhynotlem 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Porn sites should just VPN redirect your browser connection for you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That would put the liability of circumventing laws entirely on the company running the porn site instead of the individuals that visit. It'd get sued into the ground.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

Between crap like this & your power grid, Texas does look terrible. Just like Florida, the GOP is ruining your state.

[–] EatYouWell 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not like they have the means to enforce it anyways.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yet. Or the fact it is so difficult to enforce could be used to prop a reason for an even more draconian law. Something like banning it outright or having it have to be reviewed by an approval board. These laws are almost always stepping stones.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Texan Approval Board needs to verify the dignity of your content. Please send us your subscription-locked OF content in the next five business days.

[–] oDDmON 15 points 1 year ago

Idiots, all of them. But elected idiots nonetheless.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Elon's face?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

The article doesn't say anything about pictures of faces, just generic age verification.

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

Thats part of the small state they want to achieve, right?

[–] Evotech 4 points 1 year ago

Party of small dicks more like it

[–] finestnothing 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Follow in the footsteps of everyone in Utah and hop on a VPN. My VPN will sometimes throw me in a Utah server (adjacent state) and it blocks my research attempts so I just disconnect and reconnect to some other random server. If it happens twice in a row, I take a quick trip to Switzerland

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I take a quick trip to Switzerland

That's where you get the really weird stuff.

[–] saywhatisabigw 1 points 1 year ago

Is it blocked in Utah?

[–] cryptosporidium140 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They really really want to secede, I can tell

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If only. But then who would they bitch to about the "migrant crisis" and come to for aid when their power system fails again?

[–] badhops 6 points 1 year ago

and the federal government pulls all of those nice money machines (military bases)

[–] BigWheelPowerBrakeSlider 4 points 1 year ago

The injunction was stayed but that's not the end of the litigation. It's really just the beginning. I don't see that a written opinion regarding the stay has been published so it's impossible to know the court's thinking at this time, though the order does say the court will issue an expedited opinion as soon as reasonably possible. But yeah, the 5th Circuit is home to Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana and is where the GOP/conservative/right go to get favorable rulings.

Interestingly, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Utah and Virginia have passed similar measures in recent months.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Just keep uploading Ken Paxton’s face.