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U.S. circuit court upholds Texas pornography age verification law | KXAN Austin - https://www.kxan.com/news/texas/u-s-circuit-court-upholds-texas-pornography-age-verification-law/

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[–] OpticalMoose@discuss.tchncs.de 41 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Let's see. Where did I leave that picture of myself? Oh yeah, here it is: https://www.thispersondoesnotexist.com/

[–] Whoresradish@lemmy.world 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Better to use republican politicians who have lots of pictures online.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 12 points 11 months ago

I mean, here's mine

[–] M500@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

I was going to use a picture from that site for my mastodon profile, but I decided to use an mri of my brain. Since that is an actual image of me.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Pictures of adult faces are really difficult to find... VPNs also don't exist.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Porn sites should just VPN redirect your browser connection for you.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

That would put the liability of circumventing laws entirely on the company running the porn site instead of the individuals that visit. It'd get sued into the ground.

[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 25 points 11 months ago

Between crap like this & your power grid, Texas does look terrible. Just like Florida, the GOP is ruining your state.

[–] EatYouWell@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It's not like they have the means to enforce it anyways.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yet. Or the fact it is so difficult to enforce could be used to prop a reason for an even more draconian law. Something like banning it outright or having it have to be reviewed by an approval board. These laws are almost always stepping stones.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago

Texan Approval Board needs to verify the dignity of your content. Please send us your subscription-locked OF content in the next five business days.

[–] oDDmON@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

Idiots, all of them. But elected idiots nonetheless.

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] Drusas@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

The article doesn't say anything about pictures of faces, just generic age verification.

[–] bomberesque1@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago

Elon's face?

[–] GenEcon@lemm.ee 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thats part of the small state they want to achieve, right?

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Party of small dicks more like it

[–] finestnothing@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Follow in the footsteps of everyone in Utah and hop on a VPN. My VPN will sometimes throw me in a Utah server (adjacent state) and it blocks my research attempts so I just disconnect and reconnect to some other random server. If it happens twice in a row, I take a quick trip to Switzerland

[–] sxan@midwest.social 5 points 11 months ago

I take a quick trip to Switzerland

That's where you get the really weird stuff.

[–] saywhatisabigw@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Is it blocked in Utah?

[–] cryptosporidium140@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They really really want to secede, I can tell

[–] Drusas@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If only. But then who would they bitch to about the "migrant crisis" and come to for aid when their power system fails again?

[–] badhops@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

and the federal government pulls all of those nice money machines (military bases)

The injunction was stayed but that's not the end of the litigation. It's really just the beginning. I don't see that a written opinion regarding the stay has been published so it's impossible to know the court's thinking at this time, though the order does say the court will issue an expedited opinion as soon as reasonably possible. But yeah, the 5th Circuit is home to Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana and is where the GOP/conservative/right go to get favorable rulings.

Interestingly, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Utah and Virginia have passed similar measures in recent months.

[–] mateomaui@reddthat.com 3 points 11 months ago

Just keep uploading Ken Paxton’s face.