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    US Supreme Court Upholds Texas Porn ID Law

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    94 points mikece | 11 comments | 27 Jun 25 15:55 UTC | HN request time: 0.415s | source | bottom
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    silverquiet ◴[27 Jun 25 16:19 UTC] No.44398028[source]▶
    I'm a Texan and can't say I'm particularly a fan of the state politics or the current US Supreme Court, but at the same time, I can't say that this law particularly bothers me. I don't have children, and so I don't know if I can really understand what parents are dealing with in trying to ensure that their children are kept away from undesirable material, but it does seem rather difficult; I certainly don't envy them.
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    cchance ◴[27 Jun 25 16:31 UTC] No.44398147[source]▶
    Its bullshit a kid can buy a vpn without an ID for 3$ and skip any restriction, and even without that 90% of international porn sites, so the law fixes nothing but opens a slippery slope, whats next a law saying US needs a "Great Firewall" to protect the children from international deviancy.

    And it also just opens the possibility for centralized ID verification services being breached and tieing identities to their more personal vices, its only a matter of time till a ID services gets exploited and a bunch of peoples identities and the sites they use are exploited.

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    1. yupyupyups ◴[27 Jun 25 16:36 UTC] No.44398180[source]▶
    Kids don't go through the hoops to buy and install a VPN just to access porn. If they were not exposed to it in the first place, which is very easy without a VPN, then they wont have the interest to get one.
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    2. reverendsteveii ◴[27 Jun 25 16:43 UTC] No.44398230[source]▶
    As someone who went through hoops to disable filtering back in the 90s when that was the solution, yes they do. VPNs are free and can be installed on a device in about 5 minutes.
    3. WarOnPrivacy ◴[27 Jun 25 16:57 UTC] No.44398343[source]▶
    > Kids don't go through the hoops to buy and install a VPN just to access porn.

    When I hosted a Minecraft server, I routinely got DDoS'd by gradeschoolers. I have little doubt they could be tunneling thru a VPN in short order - because they did that too.

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    5. threatofrain ◴[27 Jun 25 17:05 UTC] No.44398416[source]▶
    Many VPNs are free iOS apps that vacuum your data. They are consumer-level download-tap-tap easy.
    6. Larrikin ◴[27 Jun 25 17:12 UTC] No.44398495[source]▶
    So the Texas porn law also removes hormones and curiosity? Every kid who has ever used a search engine has typed in the word fuck to see what comes back. But instead of clicking on the first link of peoplefucking.com and stopping they'll just click on peoplefucking.fr. Then there will be demands that all websites now must be approved by the government to protect the children
    7. haiku2077 ◴[27 Jun 25 17:21 UTC] No.44398574[source]▶
    Kids were using VPNs and proxies when I was in school in the 2000s to access Myspace, flash games and comics. There are free ones that are spyware + hijack your PC for use in a botnet.

    These were "normie" kids, not future hackers.

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    8. gotimo ◴[27 Jun 25 18:50 UTC] No.44399235[source]▶
    kids will absolutely do that.
    9. kotaKat ◴[27 Jun 25 19:44 UTC] No.44399685[source]▶
    Hell: My fellow kids in class ~2008-2011 were using Ultrasurf to get to Facebook, powered by Falun Gong. I remember those days quite well, and the half-assed attempts by IT staff to keep us from running it or saving it to our network drives.

    I just remembered my home IP address by heart to RDP back home. Another one of us hosted a free website somewhere with a spare copy of Ultrasurf to get around the filters in the first place.

    10. mcphage ◴[27 Jun 25 21:37 UTC] No.44400473[source]▶
    > Kids don't go through the hoops to buy and install a VPN just to access porn.

    If someone made a list of all the things kids are willing to do just to access porn, it would blow your mind.

    11. heavyset_go ◴[28 Jun 25 00:49 UTC] No.44401553[source]▶
    Have you ever been or met a kid?