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Not too long ago I saw this article about how Louisiana now requires anyone accessing porn sites to provide ID. It's worth a read.
They're doing this in the guise of protecting the children. Anytime a politician says that children need to be protected? They're full of shit. Unless they're talking about putting child rapists in prison. Then they're on point, but otherwise? Full of shit. If they did care? We wouldn't have so many school shootings. Perhaps if children could vote, politicians might change their tune. That would be kind of funny to see, actually. "I'm going after the Caillou vote." Or maybe these pricks will be on Sesame Street yukking it up with Bert and Ernie. (But not Oscar. Oscar would not stand for their shit.)
What this really sounds like to me is an attack on the sex industry. LA is requiring porn viewers to use their digital drivers licenses to access porn sites. PornHub is called out in particular. They claim that they don't keep track of data, and that's probably bullshit, but even if they did, I wouldn't care. They know that the important part of their existence is discretion, and if they didn't live up to that unspoken promise, then they wouldn't have customers. Remember, there are a lot of people who actually have PornHub accounts. Those require credit cards. There's no way they're not collecting data.
However, I'm certain that LA actually IS collecting data, and they're not going to be so benign with it. What better way for Big Brother to keep track of his little siblings? And they'll hold that data over the viewers like the Sword of Damocles. They might not be able to legally use it, but nothing stops them from using it without your knowledge. How often do cops, without a search warrant, break into the place they want to search, search it, lock up, and then figure out a way to get that search warrant in order to return legally? It happens a lot more often than one would think.
Personally I don't care if anyone knows what my kink is. If you're interested? Library porn. Women with glasses and fishnet stockings. Maybe a little public sex. MILFs. Porn parodies. Funny porn. But then again, who am I? People expect me to like porn. Or perhaps the author of DONG OF FRANKENSTEIN is an innocent little angel?
Most people don't want their kinks known. If people have to show their ID to view porn? They're probably not going to do it. If enough people stop watching porn, what happens to those porn sites?
Sure, there will always be the loyal hardcore (so to speak) fans. Maybe they're enough to keep the industry afloat. Who knows?
Protecting children from things they shouldn't see is not the government's job. It's the parents' job. Just like it's a parent's job to raise a kid right instead of raising a psychopath who jerks off thinking about shooting up his school until he actually does it. There are parental controls. Use them.
And to be honest, that will work on most kids because most kids are stupid. There are, however, smart kids, and you'll never deter them from getting something they really want. I'm sure right now there are genius teenagers in LA who have figured out how to use an out of state IP address to look at PornHub. Remember, these are kids who grew up with the internet. When something is a part of your everyday life from birth, you tend to know how to use it to your advantage.
So if it could happen in LA, I can only assume it could happen in the other 49. If porn is really, truly at risk of sinking, then I would recommend going against what your nature is telling you.
Don't get rid of physical media. Keep those DVDs and magazines. I did. And hey, it could be an investment in the future. In a world without porn, how much would someone pay for a stroke mag?
How much, indeed.
Extra points go to whoever figures out the reference in the title of this column.
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