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Major pornography site blocks users in NC in response to new law (foxcarolina.com)
5 points by tradethedelta 904 days ago
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jqpabc123 904 days ago
Officials explained that companies will be able to use commercially available databases to verify that users are old enough to access their content.

How?

There is no "commercially available database" that can detect if a child is using their parent's name.

There is no "commercially available database" that can detect if a child is using a photo of their parent's ID.

Kids are smarter than conservative lawmakers.

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aifooh7Keew6xoo 904 days ago
It should be pretty clear from the language what the intent is.

You need to pay their cronies the protection fee or something unfortunate might happen to your porn site.

With a side helping of pandering to the christofascist base, which laps up transparent corruption up as long as they flog the sinners a few times a session.

It is, quite simply, why I left North Carolina.

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i8comments 904 days ago
That porn website is rather clearly trying to manipulate public opinion and strongarm the state to get what it wants.

Kinda like how Facebook strongarmed Canada when it didnt get what it wanted and stopped showing news there.

This is a surreptitious example of megacorps trying to have more power than the people.

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popcalc 904 days ago
Are you debating the legality of their strongarming?
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