On one hand, I feel like the intent of the law is good, and will help protect kids. On the other hand, it seems like a massive privacy issue and sets a dangerous precedent. What’s are your thoughts?
I think the availability of porn, especially to children is a big problem. I just don’t see a practical solution beyond parental involvement.
Kids can set up VPN servers. Porn providers can set up servers in other countries. And as we keep chasing these and other workarounds with more and more legislation, our civil liberties erode more and more.
Do note that what it requires is “anonymous” age verification carried out by an independent, non-nongovernment third party, which can’t share or store your private information or use it for any other purpose.
Full text of the bill: https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/3/BillText/er/PDF
It’s a garbage idea I’m tired of government getting into things like this when it’s really just a thing that the parents need to do make sure their kids are not looking that shit like that. Monitor their content but also as parents we should be disgusting. with their children, the unhealthy over usage porn too much Hell right now I will admit I used to have a porn problem, but I had to work on it and quite frankly, I think I’m if I was talking to my son about it I would honestly tell him about it and the dangers of being sucked into porn so this is not a government issue. It should be a parent issue. Also sorry for over sharing about my life if that made you uncomfortable y’all just thought maybe you could relate to the discussion
Protecting children from adult content is the parents responsibility, not the state.
It’s good in theory as porn is detrimental but this isn’t the governments job. Let parents appropriately monitor their children’s browsing. I also fully expect teenagers to find ways around this so it won’t end up doing much either
Love it. The average age of exposure last I saw was 11 and trending younger. I see no reason that internet content should be treated differently than if I was trying to buy it physically. Gotta show an ID.
Multiple men I know have struggled with pornography from a young age. Statistically it is a HUGE deal for this generation of young men. I’m glad we are making steps to keep it treated like it’s treated literally everywhere else in society.
Morally I approve, but the privacy concerns are too significant to justify.
I see alot of identity theft in the future
The idea behind it is good, but I think privacy is more important and such laws are easily circumvented. There are better things for government to spend time on.
I have the same thoughts actually. Protecting kids on one hand vs preventing government overreach and allowing private corporations to obtain your private info without rules for how that info is protected is unsettling.
I mostly grew up pre-internet, I think we got it first in ‘97-ish but it was practically unusable for anything image related, but I still got my hands on porn mags as a kid so I think this really is a nanny state situation that’s better resolved by parents doing their jobs and ensuring they have website blockers and the like on their kids phones, tablets and computers.
I Think it is fantastic. That content is degrading and detrimental to society and there are countless studies to back that up. I really can’t imagine the argument for it. I’m a free speech advocate but no one is clamoring to watch executions, why this?
I don’t like it
But I completely understand it.
I like the idea. However, convieniently a A LOT of lefty’s are going to suddenly start caring a lot about online privacy.
We require ID to buy porn magazines from a store, I don’t see any issue with this.
People say there are VPN’s and yes that’s true, but kids can also ask someone old enough to buy the magazines.
If this drops the amount of people under age able to access porn, then it’s a good thing.
We need to move away from this libertarian idea that all regulation is bad. The government is supposed to make decisions that are good for society as a whole, limiting access to lewd and damaging material is one of those roles.
The “freedom” party strikes again.
Here’s a shocking idea, be better parents. There are plenty of technologies that can be put in place to stop kids from looking at porn.
Stop trying to shift your parental responsibility to website operators.
I think it is a good idea, there are plenty of studies on the harmful effects porn have on children and teenagers, something needs to be done to protect them.
As much as I agree porn is bad, and it is having a negative impact on young people, these laws do little to solve the problem and create much bigger unintended issues. This has been going on in texas for over a year now and you can tell the boomers who wrote it have a 2008 understanding of the internet.
First. If the goal is to limit vice, make pornography illegal. This would obviously be extremely unpopular to everyone a seen as tyranny, but I could believe that the authors intent was genuine in wanting to reduce harm to society. These laws in practice require sites to verify age before allowing users access. The lawmakers are only looking at top sites like pornhub, and other popular sites in audits on compliance, but they are the only sites making an actual effort. As we all know (and for some reason the government doesn’t) the majority of the internet is porn, from all over the world. If I can’t use pornhub, there are any number of other websites that I can choose from. If your goal is to reduce vice, these laws are as effective as a newly walking baby in an mma fight. And why only target websites? Most pornography I’ve seen is from social media. Why are we not verifying reddit users?! There is porn everywhere on this app, as well as minors. Any lawmaker who thinks this works is grossly incompetent, or is only willing to do the bare minimum for the people he represents. Either way, it is clear they don’t care who looks at porn, they just think you’re stupid enough to believe this is good.
Y’all got me all pissed off now dammit! The more I think about it, the more I feel I feel personally insulted as a resident of Texas.
It’s too much of a security risk.
It’s well intended but absolutely pointless at best, a security and privacy issue at worst.
First hand knowledge since it’s a decent part of my case load. We can barely put a dent in CSAM online despite it being illegal virtually everywhere and generally considered by most people on earth to be reprehensible.
If the goal is to increase awareness of VPNs and virtual machines (to hide shit from parents) then I’d imagine we’re looking at a big success.