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The lack of self-awareness is pretty funny. Setting aside moral judgements, consider: a state passes a law based on traditional religious morality, and a compa

The lack of self-awareness is pretty funny. Setting aside moral judgements, consider: a state passes a law based on traditional religious morality, and a company that violates traditional religious morality then refuses to do business in it as "punishment". At some level, I guess it's good. The Big Sort continues apace.

verandaguy 11y ago
It may seem like a lack of self-awareness at first, but I'm almost sure this is because NC is one of the states where lesbian porn is among the top searches, according to PornHub's annual map[0]. So really, it's more just xHamster trying to cut down on hypocrisy. [0]: https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/rolfkdrqf5pg21auxwsh.png?w=560&h=414 https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/rolfkdrqf5pg2...
- fizzbatter 11y ago
  Exactly. Not that it would work, but if you could manage to cut out all porn from NC, it would serve as both a protest against them while also making them suffer in silence. Afterall, i doubt most of these conservative anti-gay groups believe porn is okay - it's an immoral sin, just as being gay is. As i disclaimed, it's a big if, an impossible if. As much as i'd love to see these people suffer in this uniquely funny way, prohibition never works.
mc32 11y ago
I see their point, or stance as "protest" but I can't see how this does anything than make those people who saw it fit to pass those laws pleased with the developments. Those lawmakers will now hope people who run prostitution rings join the protest. Maybe even the bootleggers and... On the other hand the hamster gets nice publicity out of it, so on balance its probably a net positive for them.
chriswarbo 11y ago
First they came for the LGBT community, but I did not speak out because I was not LGBT. Then they came for the pornography, and there was a mass uprising.
mikeash 11y ago
This is only weird if you think that people who hold to traditional religious morality don't watch porn. But of course those people do, a lot, and I'm sure xHamster knows it. So this is more of a "hey dummies, here you are watching porn while you pretend to be moral with your stupid laws."

verandaguy 11y ago

It may seem like a lack of self-awareness at first, but I'm almost sure this is because NC is one of the states where lesbian porn is among the top searches, according to PornHub's annual map[0]. So really, it's more just xHamster trying to cut down on hypocrisy. [0]: https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/rolfkdrqf5pg21auxwsh.png?w=560&h=414 https://timedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2016/02/rolfkdrqf5pg2...

fizzbatter 11y ago
Exactly. Not that it would work, but if you could manage to cut out all porn from NC, it would serve as both a protest against them while also making them suffer in silence. Afterall, i doubt most of these conservative anti-gay groups believe porn is okay - it's an immoral sin, just as being gay is. As i disclaimed, it's a big if, an impossible if. As much as i'd love to see these people suffer in this uniquely funny way, prohibition never works.

mc32 11y ago

I see their point, or stance as "protest" but I can't see how this does anything than make those people who saw it fit to pass those laws pleased with the developments. Those lawmakers will now hope people who run prostitution rings join the protest. Maybe even the bootleggers and... On the other hand the hamster gets nice publicity out of it, so on balance its probably a net positive for them.

chriswarbo 11y ago

First they came for the LGBT community, but I did not speak out because I was not LGBT. Then they came for the pornography, and there was a mass uprising.

mikeash 11y ago

This is only weird if you think that people who hold to traditional religious morality don't watch porn. But of course those people do, a lot, and I'm sure xHamster knows it. So this is more of a "hey dummies, here you are watching porn while you pretend to be moral with your stupid laws."