What kind of “small government” legislates morality?
They want to ban it nationwide
Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered
-A Promise to America", Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 5, Project 2025
as psychologically destructive as any crime.
...what? Just because something is a crime doesn't make it "psychologically destructive."
Remember, one of the defining traits of right-wing political movements is the redefining of words. When a Conservative says "small government" what they really mean is "a government that can enforce our morals and values, but is incapable of enforcing rights, regulations, or equality."
Pretty sure "government" is what they call their dicks.
They are definitely "small government conservatives" then.
I sure hope all porn sites follow Porn Hub’s lead. Just block Texas from viewing porn. Then I hope all broadband and cable TV operators follow suit as well, can’t have transexual cock on VOD or PPV. Let’s see how quickly Texas falls back in line. It won’t happen, but I can dream.
Oh porn will be accessible it'll just be worse.
Yep, I do agree with that part of the statement. The only porn they'll have access to will be completely unregulated and a haven for revenge porn and CP.
Pornhub themselves weren't amazing on that front to begin with, but they made more of an effort than most to try and clean that up due to regulatory pressures.
I do wonder how this kind of thing will mesh with sites that arent for porn but do allow posting of it. Like reddit or for that manner any lemmy instance federated with one of the instances with nsfw subs
I'm in North Carolina and the porn has been blocked since New Year's. The hentai websites are the only ones I have access to. (E621 is also blocked).
I’m a woman in Texas and if this has anything positive to come out of it, I hope a lot of the men here who don’t care about women’s reproductive rights will finally wake up to the Christian Nationalism really taking hold here, realize it may impact them, and help to do something about it.
I'm with you, but I can't imagine any other outcome than an increasingly large group of sexually-frustrated men taking this out on women / men / animals around them. Particularly as other porn sites follow suit.
What's worse, I imagine this is either by design or a very welcome byproduct. In other words, one step closer to y'all qaeda.
Porn reduces the incident of rape. Combine that with the inability to access abortion. This is going to get worse. If vulnerable people have the ability to leave, they should.
At least this'll probably push more people to hate Republicans. Like, fucking with a man's porn supply is just political suicide. At least I hope it is.
Don't worry they'll find a way to blame Biden.
Anything is possible when logic, facts, and reality don't matter.
Just tried it. Yep, no access. Just a long message lambasting Texas politicians.
I tried all the other regular sites, no issues.
They're gonna need an industry wide cooperation to successfully combat this.
I tried it, got the block message, and then tried it with a Kansas City VPN just to see if it would work. It did.
I really liked the message though. Texas legislators are dumb af if they don't think that this is going to push people to use websites without ID requirements and less stringent rules on content creation/safety.
I mean, they were dumb af before this, but they're extra dumb now too.
Texas loves to use words like "freedom" and "liberty", and make them synonomus with their values. Then they pass legislation to force women to give birth, and they ban porn.
Like... "y'all" really are fucking stupid down there (at least the conservatives.)
I refuse to drive through Texas and I do not do layovers in Texas on the grounds that their supreme court supports road side cavity searches by law enforcement. Nothing Texas for me.
All blocking porn in the states will do is push users to sites hosted in the EU/Russia/Brazil/etc. Probably with even fewer safety checks or regulations.
Came here to say this too. All they're doing is pushing the users of those sites to less reputable sites
I know how I was as a kid, and I sure as shit wouldn't have stopped because my state said "no"
I can almost guarantee that the EU would have better regulations. Given that the US doesn’t even have anything akin to GDPR. If you’re in the EU and get a “sorry we can’t let you use our site because of GDPR” warning, you should consider it a blessing in disguise. Because it means the US users are getting their data harvested and sold without their knowledge or consent, and the GDPR prevents that.
My guess is rape rate will increase instead
https://slate.com/culture/2006/10/proof-that-internet-porn-prevents-rape.html
Interestingly, according to the article, the biggest effect is in 15-19 year olds; which are the people the law is intended to bar from accessing porn. Granted, I have no idea how good the underlying study that article is based off of is.
If porn is the only thing stopping someone from raping another person, then their problems are a whole lot deeper than porn
So? If porn is the only thing that stopped me from getting raped, then my problem is solved. I'd call that a win.
The perspective we need
Yes. But not the problems of the victim.
While true it still is stopping them. I don't really care that much of a person is intrinsically a good person or not I care what their action's are.
Question: what do you call someone capable of the act of rape that has never raped anyone? Answer: normal.
Texans will have to get their porn the old fashioned way now- finding an old magazine in the woods.
Guess it's time Sears started mailing out their catalogs again...
The meme: Oh noooo Texas. So I started VPNing...
Texan here. Porn's busted. Brb gotta go watch dune 2 with popcorn now.
Use VPN.
The cum must flow
Paxton is just trying to raise the money he wanted the taxpayers to pay for his corruption. The guy is a joke of a human.
https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/16/ken-paxton-impeachment-allegations/
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