You will need vpn in Louisiana & other states

[WalterB]

Oh, I understand all that. I can come up with ideas, but I don't really think of the whole picture. I'm usually full of great ideas that wouldn't go anywhere in a Florida Hurricane, lol.

[stickyvicky]

https://www.xbiz.com/news/276941/north- ... ornography

[lance_s]

There are 40 websites and probably six tour pages on each one so I would have to pay a designer, to redo 240 pages, then I would have to pay someone to reintegrate those Graphics back into the CMS and our code, and I would have to pay someone to go change the GIFs or the thumbnails on every single website update be it a video update where there are three GIFs or a photo update where there is just one thumbnail to something that is pg. Even that may be not enough? Because the text talks about fucking and sucking. So it's still a porn site.

We get traffic from all over the world, I am not going to change everything because of a couple of states it's easier to just block them. At least for now.

I suppose you could build a puritanical landing page where you take people from these states and explain there why they can't go further. I don't know if that makes commercial sense, but at least it is doable.

[stickyvicky]

That's exactly what we did except we didn't create the landing pages, Free Speech Coalition did. If you try to go to any of our websites from those Six States, you get a page explaining how the bill was passed and instructions how to write to state government. For example if you have a Texas IP address you will land here:
https://www.defendonlineprivacy.com/tx.php

There are similar landing pages for the other states.

[lance_s]

That's exactly what we did except we didn't create the landing pages, Free Speech Coalition did. If you try to go to any of our websites from those Six States, you get a page explaining how the bill was passed and instructions how to write to state government. For example if you have a Texas IP address you will land here:
https://www.defendonlineprivacy.com/tx.php

There are similar landing pages for the other states.

Fair enough. My next suggestion would have been to do it as an industry coalition, but you're obviously WAY ahead of me.

[stickyvicky]

https://www.xbiz.com/news/277079/democr ... l-into-law

NC passed it into law, it will take effect on Jan 1, 2024.

These politicians are lying to people though. They are saying that porn use went down by 80% in Louisiana after their law went into effect. That is just not true. People switched to VPN's. VPN sales skyrocketed in the weeks and months after the law went into effect. So instead of saying "Porn use declined by 80%", a more accurate and correct statement would be something like "porn use by Louisiana IP addresses decreased by 80%, while porn use by Louisianians decreased by 10- 20%." The people who couldn't figure out, or didn't want to pay for VPN's stopped watching porn, probably the elderly (who the law was not designed to protect) or they just watched it from europe or cypress or websites that don't follow our laws and probably had to wade through some extreme stuff they didn't want to see, in order to find their milf porn.

[WalterB]

Data is pretty easy to manipulate in print when you're pretty sure that your readership won't double-check your facts for you.

[lance_s]

https://www.xbiz.com/news/277079/democr ... l-into-law

NC passed it into law, it will take effect on Jan 1, 2024.

These politicians are lying to people though. They are saying that porn use went down by 80% in Louisiana after their law went into effect. That is just not true. People switched to VPN's. VPN sales skyrocketed in the weeks and months after the law went into effect. So instead of saying "Porn use declined by 80%", a more accurate and correct statement would be something like "porn use by Louisiana IP addresses decreased by 80%, while porn use by Louisianians decreased by 10- 20%." The people who couldn't figure out, or didn't want to pay for VPN's stopped watching porn, probably the elderly (who the law was not designed to protect) or they just watched it from europe or cypress or websites that don't follow our laws and probably had to wade through some extreme stuff they didn't want to see, in order to find their milf porn.

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. " Popularized by Mark Twain, but he attributed it to Benjamin Disraeli.

[stickyvicky]

It's getting worse! North Dakota lawmakes wants to criminalize all porn and ban Onlyfans in his state!
https://www.xbiz.com/news/277046/north- ... lt-content

[ErikB]

It's getting worse! North Dakota lawmakes wants to criminalize all porn and ban Onlyfans in his state!
https://www.xbiz.com/news/277046/north- ... lt-content

While I am a conservative, it's bible-thumpers like this idiot that drove me from the Republican party the last time they crawled out of the woodwork. I seem to recall things didn't work out so well when people like him tried to save us all from the demon alcohol. Thankfully, the article points out that there are other Republicans who disagree with him. I take it the article mentioned his slim vote counts to hint that he could be easily removed in a primary.

[Anthony_JK]

A heads-up for those of you using VPN to get around the porn portal censor states: Adjust your VPN to only use IP's from states without such laws. I was using a Dallas-based IP for my "fake" IP, but I had to move over to an Atlanta-based IP after the TX IP got locked out of accessing the site. Thanks a lotta, Greg Abbott and John Bel Edwards.

[stickyvicky]

https://www.xbiz.com/news/277238/ohio-r ... line-nudes

Ohio is next. American companies comply while all the European sites run rampant. The kids will see worse stuff than you ever imagined. Riculous complicated laws. Put a filter on your kids phone, problem solved. Why is our government so retarded?

[stickyvicky]

https://www.404media.co/popular-porn-si ... newsletter

I swear the world has gone insane ..... what are we doing.......
Forcing website owners to post disclaimers in large print that have never been proven or endorsed by any health agency?

[WalterB]

You can get far worse porn and general violence all over the internet. And Our State governments are all wrapped up about sex while the world is collapsing around us. The Republican side of the house can't even elect a leader. This administration, and I'm talking about 535 members of congress, not just their clueless leader (yes, he HAS done some good things,) Is lost. Well. I was gonna go off on a rant, but I wont.

You're welcome

[stickyvicky]

Unreal, soon we will be blocking 35 states....

[lance_s]

Facial recognition in the UK for accessing porn sites?


https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-67615719

[WalterB]

Unreal, soon we will be blocking 35 states....

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Including your own state? How will this affect your business? I have even received blocks that block not only states that have passed laws, but they also block anything coming from a VPN, no matter where your home base is or why you might be using a VPN.

[stickyvicky]

Who is blocking vpns Walt? What sites? I heard that is what Italy was going to do but they are putting porn filters on kids phones and laptops.

[WalterB]

I"ll try to remember to get a screenshot next time I run across one. I've seen 3 or 4.

[Davest]

Any new confirmed state blocks for next week/the new year?