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Creeping theocracy

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Oh yes the same Republicans that want to save the children also want to marry them..

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Honestly, this feels like a canary in a coalmine. A coalmine that we’ve known to be on fire, but a canary nonetheless.

12 states total. That’s like a quarter of the country.

2025 is gonna be a wild ride…

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I had to travel to Austin for work a few weeks ago. Got off the plane, checked into the hotel, took a shower, decided to use mother nature’s melatonin to help with the jet lag… then, boom. Upload your driver’s license.

So I had visited some sites that were hosted outside US and didn’t give a fuck about Texas’ stupid laws.

These laws are not only authoritarian, they’re fucking useless.

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What’s worse: Reputable sites that comply with U.S. laws (such as participants being 18+ and filming of their own free will) are effectively forced out, while questionable site carry on.

The likelyhood of seeing abuse victims or underage in Texas goes up, not down.

If they truly cared about protecting minors, they’d see the flaw in their law and rectify it. Of course, we all know (not through cynicism but cold repeated behavior) that political conservatives do not care about minors and care far more about punishing consenting adults.

This law is a step toward the latter.

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You: (bring facts and logic)

TX Republicans: “A witch! They’re a witch! Burn them!”

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In any given situation, sites beholden to these laws are much less likely to be hosting CSAM

Edit: Literally why the fuck are all of you reading this wrong???

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Other way around:

Sites that COMPLY with laws and exit the state leave behind sites that do not comply.

The sites you CAN reach in Texas are more likely to have trafficking victims and underage participants – because those sites clearly don’t give a hoot about laws.

Texas drove away the wrong sites!

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Yes that’s literally what I said…

Sites beholden to these laws…

PornHub, sister sites, etc…

…are much less likely to be hosting CSAM.

Because of their moderation.

Obviously it’s a big site and you can’t get rid of it all, but the percentage is absolutely lower.

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I’m guessing they don’t know what beholden means?

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Maybe

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If you get downvoted once, everyone else has to downvote you too before they read your comment, it’s the rule of lemmy.

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Banning porn nationwide is part of Project 2025’s plan. defeatproject2025.org

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