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US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law

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94 points mikece | 3 comments | 27 Jun 25 15:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.41s | source
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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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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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1. 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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2. kirubakaran ◴[27 Jun 25 16:09 UTC] No.44397925[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.
3. heavyset_go ◴[27 Jun 25 16:37 UTC] No.44398192[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.