[jiin]

Or you could just choose not to use pornography. Then you don't have to verify your age to these websites.

I get that some people have a behavioural addiction to this harmful content but perhaps the age verification is an opportunity to step back and reconsider.

[trumpdong]

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[ssl-3]

Agreed. It's important to remain pure.

I usually just use the Book of Mormon and that typically helps me get it done well-enough. But when that doesn't work, I allow myself some different material. The New Haven Code of 1656 is my reserve favorite and I have a laminated copy of the Comstock Act of 1873 on-hand for unusually-tricky edge cases.

[nosioptar]

I tried tBoM, but always succumb to weakness when it gets to talking about how ripped Nephi is.

I tried changing the page, Helaman's 2,000 stripper warriors are even hotter.

Stupid sexy Mormonism...

[BLKNSLVR]

Lamination guarantees re-usability.

[ssl-3]

I cannot stress highly enough the importance of maintaining reliable backups.

[IlikeMadison]

So we shouldn't be using GrapheneOS neither nor any Sony products if we follow your logic right? Because obviously it means we are addicted to both.

[Cider9986]

Or they can be pushed to watch on less regulated platforms to avoid the age verification, which is far more likely and has negative consequences.

[sunaookami]

Excellent bait, well done! Nearly fell for it!

[The_President]

Another good reason to not use it is the risk of having illegal material downloaded from a server hosted internationally.

[Forgeties79]

Forcing Puritanical values on the world around you is half the reason we are in this mess.

[microsoftedging]

First they came for the porn watchers And I did not speak out Because I was not a porn watcher

[trumpdong]

Almost everyone has watched porn, especially the people who want to outlaw it.