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    US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law

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    94 points mikece | 16 comments | 27 Jun 25 15:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.599s | source | bottom
    1. aa_is_op ◴[27 Jun 25 16:00 UTC] No.44397836[source]▶
    This will just drive people to non-compliant foreign sites. They just killed their own adult industry, who is gonna take their business and taxes elsewhere
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    2. josefresco ◴[27 Jun 25 16:02 UTC] No.44397856[source]▶
    Someone in this chain of corruption probably owns a VPN company or another entity benefitting (short term) from this ban.
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    3. rendleflag ◴[27 Jun 25 16:04 UTC] No.44397866[source]▶
    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
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    4. kirubakaran ◴[27 Jun 25 16:09 UTC] No.44397925{3}[source]▶
    You have to adjust your priors at some point though, right?

        Fool me once, shame on my prior.
    Fool me twice, shame on my posterior.
    5. TriangleEdge ◴[27 Jun 25 16:09 UTC] No.44397926[source]▶
    I think your assumption that Texas cares about its porn industries is incorrect. Pornhub is a Canadian company. Afaik it's the #1 porn site, I could be wrong. I assume if they don't comply, their DNS host will be blocked in Texas. Registries of porn sites are readily available. (I use them in my hosts file blocking). So, my guess is that the likely step will be block all of them until they prove they have ID enforcement.
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    6. ◴[27 Jun 25 16:09 UTC] No.44397930[source]▶
    7. dragonwriter ◴[27 Jun 25 16:13 UTC] No.44397966[source]▶
    I don't think the big-business adult industries is particularly present in Texas, and the independent creators who are in Texas leaving if they are able or being forced out of work if not is probably an active goal of Texas politicians.
    8. pavlov ◴[27 Jun 25 16:21 UTC] No.44398041[source]▶
    Conservatives claim to hate Chinese-style internet censorship, but in practice they want to build a Great Firewall of Texas.
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    9. dragonwriter ◴[27 Jun 25 16:24 UTC] No.44398077{3}[source]▶
    > Conservatives claim to hate Chinese-style internet censorship

    What they hate about Chinese internet censorship isn't the scope and pervasiveness, it’s who specifically controls it and what specific decisions are made.

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    10. noqc ◴[27 Jun 25 16:28 UTC] No.44398117{4}[source]▶
    I think all 3 of these things are valid concerns.
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    11. heavyset_go ◴[27 Jun 25 16:37 UTC] No.44398192{3}[source]▶
    Adhering to that adage eventually becomes something masochistic and Sisyphean.

    Apply it to your personal relationships, but you will be steamrolled over and over again if you naively assume good faith in politics, business, etc even after you've been flattened to a pancake.

    12. lesuorac ◴[27 Jun 25 16:42 UTC] No.44398227{5}[source]▶
    You do, but lawmakers generally don't.
    13. WarOnPrivacy ◴[27 Jun 25 17:15 UTC] No.44398525[source]▶
    > I assume if they don't comply, their DNS host will be blocked in Texas.

    I'm guessing you mean blocking their entire NS host. It would be a massive overreach and would block every site they're authoritative for.

    It's one more thing on the rapidly growing Unconstitutional=Okay stack. Cherry-picked courts are routinely fine with that. But it wouldn't stop lawsuits from registrars, site owners and other parties harmed thru collateral damage.

    Just blocking PH's current IP would take down over 40 sites.

    ref: https://bgp.he.net/ip/66.254.114.41#_dnsrecords

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    14. commandlinefan ◴[27 Jun 25 20:16 UTC] No.44399875[source]▶
    > if they don't comply, their DNS host will be blocked

    Actually they've already pre-emptively blocked themselves. If you try to access their site from anywhere in Texas, you get a wall of text urging you to call your congressman and oppose this law (or so I heard from a guy).

    15. ◴[27 Jun 25 20:22 UTC] No.44399911{3}[source]▶
    16. nickthegreek ◴[28 Jun 25 13:16 UTC] No.44404506[source]▶
    i believe the big prob sites are already foreign controlled (canadian).