Pornhub users in Louisiana now have to submit government ID to access the site
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@Rotron Thank you for posting this. I note two things here:
- I can understand the need for porn providers to take "reasonable care" to not distribute their material to minors, much like a shop clerk can ask for ID for purchases of alcohol or tobacco. The clerk, though, keeps no record of the purchaser. This state system presumably accumulates a database with unknown privacy protection. I think it will be amusing to see how many prominent persons, including elected government officials, become listed in (and leaked from) the database.
- Most family values/anti-porn/anti-governnent-intrusion-into-our-lives groups usually argue that the parents of a minor should make decisions on what their child experiences, not a government bureaucracy. There are porn filters/net-nannies/etc. that parents can use with some success. The Louisiana law overrides parental prerogative in favor of letting The Big Deep State make these decisions. This would seem inconsistent with their overall philosophy.
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@eobox91103 Exactly the very first thoughts that came to mind when I first read about this. I only discovered it while reading stuff from CES 2023. Now, that's just PornHub. How about the plethora of other sites that one can get porn from? Like this forum. Nothing's gonna stop a male adolescent get what he's looking for.
I just don't get why there is a need for something like this in the first place. Parents should be enough. I for one was never regulated on anything when I was a child. I grew up freely and I think laws like these only messes up what comes naturally for a man. Addiction to porn though is something different or one that becomes a maniac due to porn would certainly be coming from one life environment and not solely from porn.
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@Rotron said in Pornhub users in Louisiana now have to submit government ID to access the site:
Nothing's gonna stop a male adolescent get what he's looking for.
Ah, but people will try. I worked for a while at a small firm that wanted to keep tight control over what websites staff could visit. They didn't want to invest in a commercial net-nanny service, so they had a "blacklist" of websites and character strings. One forbidden combination was s-e-x, which made it very clumsy for me to work with a colleague in the UK at the University of Essex.
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@eobox91103 Oh sorry, I just edited my response. You might have missed it.
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@Rotron said in Pornhub users in Louisiana now have to submit government ID to access the site:
I for one was never regulated on anything when I was a child. I grew up freely and I think laws like these only messes up what comes naturally for a man
Ah, OK, so I'm not going blind...I think this addresses your edit.
What you say above applies in many areas. My parents took a characteristically European view of alcohol with their children: It was not forbidden, and we were welcome to taste--or even have--the same beverage they often drank with dinner. Like most children, I found the taste dreadful and stayed away from it--not because it was forbidden, but because I didn't like it. I had some mates in school who drank simply because it was forbidden to them, and the outcomes were not good.
Once I got to university, things were different. I still remember my first serious overconsumption...it was with American bourbon whisky mixed with 7-up. That was several years ago, and I still can't come anywhere near that stuff. (A good single malt Scotch? That's a different story, but I digress...)
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@eobox91103 Yes, same here when I was still a child most especially during New Year's Eve which is very much like Thanksgiving Day in the US. There's good food like turkey, bone-in ham etc and of course wine. My family will let me sip to taste and that's about it but never really like it. I understand that there has to be a set of limitations for prevention and control over unthinkable things that may happen. Good that there is as sometimes parents are not always the same as other's parents one would expect.
American Bourbon Whisky + 7-Up still sounds awful to me though. Ehe.
