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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

josefresco 1y ago
Someone in this chain of corruption probably owns a VPN company or another entity benefitting (short term) from this ban.
- rendleflag 1y ago
  Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
  - kirubakaran 1y ago
    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.
  - heavyset_go 1y ago
    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.
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TriangleEdge 1y ago
I think your assumption that Texas cares about its porn industries is incorrect. Pornhub is a Canadian company. Afaik it's the #1 porn site, I could be wrong. I assume if they don't comply, their DNS host will be blocked in Texas. Registries of porn sites are readily available. (I use them in my hosts file blocking). So, my guess is that the likely step will be block all of them until they prove they have ID enforcement.
- pavlov 1y ago
  Conservatives claim to hate Chinese-style internet censorship, but in practice they want to build a Great Firewall of Texas.
  - dragonwriter 1y ago
    > Conservatives claim to hate Chinese-style internet censorship What they hate about Chinese internet censorship isn't the scope and pervasiveness, it’s who specifically controls it and what specific decisions are made.
    - noqc 1y ago
      I think all 3 of these things are valid concerns.
      - lesuorac 1y ago
        You do, but lawmakers generally don't.
- jalapeno_a 1y ago
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- WarOnPrivacy 1y ago
  > I assume if they don't comply, their DNS host will be blocked in Texas. I'm guessing you mean blocking their entire NS host. It would be a massive overreach and would block every site they're authoritative for. It's one more thing on the rapidly growing Unconstitutional=Okay stack. Cherry-picked courts are routinely fine with that. But it wouldn't stop lawsuits from registrars, site owners and other parties harmed thru collateral damage. Just blocking PH's current IP would take down over 40 sites. ref: https://bgp.he.net/ip/66.254.114.41#_dnsrecords https://bgp.he.net/ip/66.254.114.41#_dnsrecords
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dragonwriter 1y ago
I don't think the big-business adult industries is particularly present in Texas, and the independent creators who are in Texas leaving if they are able or being forced out of work if not is probably an active goal of Texas politicians.
rayiner 1y ago
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nickthegreek 1y ago
i believe the big prob sites are already foreign controlled (canadian).

josefresco 1y ago

Someone in this chain of corruption probably owns a VPN company or another entity benefitting (short term) from this ban.

rendleflag 1y ago
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
- kirubakaran 1y ago
  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.
- heavyset_go 1y ago
  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.
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TriangleEdge 1y ago

I think your assumption that Texas cares about its porn industries is incorrect. Pornhub is a Canadian company. Afaik it's the #1 porn site, I could be wrong. I assume if they don't comply, their DNS host will be blocked in Texas. Registries of porn sites are readily available. (I use them in my hosts file blocking). So, my guess is that the likely step will be block all of them until they prove they have ID enforcement.

pavlov 1y ago
Conservatives claim to hate Chinese-style internet censorship, but in practice they want to build a Great Firewall of Texas.
- dragonwriter 1y ago
  > Conservatives claim to hate Chinese-style internet censorship What they hate about Chinese internet censorship isn't the scope and pervasiveness, it’s who specifically controls it and what specific decisions are made.
  - noqc 1y ago
    I think all 3 of these things are valid concerns.
    - lesuorac 1y ago
      You do, but lawmakers generally don't.
jalapeno_a 1y ago
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WarOnPrivacy 1y ago
> I assume if they don't comply, their DNS host will be blocked in Texas. I'm guessing you mean blocking their entire NS host. It would be a massive overreach and would block every site they're authoritative for. It's one more thing on the rapidly growing Unconstitutional=Okay stack. Cherry-picked courts are routinely fine with that. But it wouldn't stop lawsuits from registrars, site owners and other parties harmed thru collateral damage. Just blocking PH's current IP would take down over 40 sites. ref: https://bgp.he.net/ip/66.254.114.41#_dnsrecords https://bgp.he.net/ip/66.254.114.41#_dnsrecords
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dragonwriter 1y ago

I don't think the big-business adult industries is particularly present in Texas, and the independent creators who are in Texas leaving if they are able or being forced out of work if not is probably an active goal of Texas politicians.

rayiner 1y ago

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nickthegreek 1y ago

i believe the big prob sites are already foreign controlled (canadian).