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Supreme Court's ruling practically wipes out free speech for sex writing online

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693 points macawfish | 1 comments | 12 Jul 25 18:14 UTC | HN request time: 0.221s | source
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everdrive ◴[12 Jul 25 19:06 UTC] No.44544268[source]▶
Others have said this, I'm sure, but this will move past porn _quickly_. Once there is agreed-up age verification for pornography, much of the professional internet will require identity verification to do _anything_. This is one of the bigger nails in the coffin for the free internet, and this true whether or not you're happy with all the pornography out there.
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nikanj ◴[12 Jul 25 19:20 UTC] No.44544369[source]▶
And honestly, with the advent of AI spam everywhere, I'd be quite happy to visit a version of the internet where everyone is a certified real person
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baq ◴[12 Jul 25 19:37 UTC] No.44544510[source]▶
No idea why you’re getting downvoted when there’s a slow but unstoppable migration of everything into discord or other walled, somewhat LLM-proof gardens.
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1. johnnyanmac ◴[13 Jul 25 05:57 UTC] No.44547857[source]▶
It was a very tonedeaf take, that's why. Most of the internet is concentrated in the top 100 websites, and 80% of them would not be affected by this law. So you'll still see plenty of bots on Youtube, Discord, Reddit, news sites, and so on.

Blogs with a few comments would go from 5 real commenters to 0 or 1. This does not get the desired result.

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secondly, I assure you there's plenty of classic spam on servers that don't have good moderation. pre-AI spam never disappeared.