Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads
Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads
Adult site owner Aylo protests age verification laws in two more states.
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How is it these laws can get passed but our legislatures can’t do anything that’s actually important for society? 
It's so much worse than that. North Carolina House Bill 8 was created a year ago to add Computer Science to middle school and high school curriculums. Throughout it's 3 edits over the year, all 10 pages of the bill were about teaching kids computer science. Then, ONE WEEK before the bill was passed, a paragraph on the last page was added including the text requiring age verification for adult websites. https://www.ncleg.gov/BillLookup/2023/H8
At that point it was too late, and anyone against the bill would be called out for being against teaching kids computer science. The cowards writing these bills know that they would be shot down immediately if they were public about what they were doing, so they tack it on to a children's education bill and hope no one notices until it's too late.
That kind of shit should really be illegal
It is illegal where I live. I imagine it's illegal in most developed countries. Bills can only have one purpose, they can't combine unrelated things.
I've heard of several cases in the USA where they combine unrelated things to mess with voters. Even this one is kinda related but school education plus internet censorship. Split that shit up and let the people vote for what they want.
Edit: it's a rider
"Several cases?" Lol
Virtually every bill that passes in Congress contains riders and typically only passes because of those riders.
I think I just had my worst American brain moment. Definitely assumed this was common everywhere and am in shock it’s not. Must be nice lol
Other countries have actual middle-class structures, so I can only assume so.
It’s how literally anything happens in our government here in the US
Thank goodness it’s illegal in New York
Fucking Amy Galey. I hate that I have to be I around her and pretend that she’s the best thing since sliced bread. I wish people got to hear more about her talking at length about how great her family treated their slaves and less about her GOP silly season power moves.
the politicians were the naughty ones all along
Well, why not vote against it and defend yourself when accused of voting against education?
"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes." - Jonathon Swift
So now you're investing time and effort to publicize why this bill was broken. Your political opposition successfully got you on the defensive. These strategies play a part of why fascism and authoritarianism are succeeding in the USA.
That's what I wanted to highlight by posting it. It's a lose/lose situation for America either way.
Simply put, the attack is shorter and easier to understand than the nuanced defense.
Politicians can put "you're against education!" in a 15 second attack ad on the radio/TV/a poster. It takes a short media appearance to explain the nuance. Which isn't worth the time or money typically, since so few people will see it.
Especially since a huge section of our population gets 100% of its news from Fox, Newsmax, and other right wing media. That interview will never air there. In fact, those sources will repeat the party line of "you're against education!"
"Why do Republicans think about porn every time they discuss children?"
Thats how you frame it back at em.
No no no. Nuance can only be used to pave a high road to hell. Get out of here with using it to fire back more intelligently yet equally dirty. We can only do one thing at a time, so it's high road all the way to the grave.
I mean, what's next in your suggestions? Using the free and available plethora of Republican politician child sex scandals as non-slanderous, factual, and real ammo fodder?
The situations are clearly different because of the rabid faith of conservative followers, but that being said, it seems relatively easy enough to get on TV/media first and start spreading around "Republicans want to take your porn!" The situation could be explained pretty concisely within a 20 second TikTok or a shareable YouTube video.
Now don't get me wrong, if American political debate soils itself any further than it already has and fully becomes two-side mudslinging and nothing else, then I'm going to need to either leave the country or become radicalized. But it's becoming clear to me more and more these days that if the democrats want to throw their weight around they're going to need to lower their standards a bit. Instead of half hour appeals to judgment we need more 30-second dunks. Poli Sci students need to hear a detailed and nuanced discussion of a bill, but it's been readily proven again and again ad nauseum that the average person does not.
And I'm not advocating that they lie, only to use the framework of a lie in order to spread the message. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth can put its shoes on, specifically because the instant something might maybe be relevant to something someone thinks exists, somebody is on Fox news spouting 30 second dunks about it. The instant we hear what's going on with the bill rider somebody should have been on TikTok, YouTube and X posting a 30 second dunk about how Republicans are abusing education bills to steal all porn from everyone, everywhere. Don't lie, but take strategies from their playbook. I want an account doing blow by blow daily updates on everything the R's have their grubby mitts in, in the same way that there are accounts doing blow by blow daily updates about exactly how many children they accuse Kamala Harris of having eaten. Except this one will have credible sources.
Point being, personally, I'm growing extremely jaded and tired of the way political discussion works in America. On one hand we have the Democrats making an effort to fully explain away and good faith debate (most of) their bills, with a handful of notable and upsetting exceptions. On the other hand we have a pit of screaming pigs that will debate nothing, will source nothing, will sneak last minute riders into bills they had nothing to do with, and will lie at the top of their lungs constantly and without regard to what they are lying about. The pigs in question have proven themselves either unwilling or incapable of rising to a level of proper political discussion expected from an elected official, and it's becoming clear that if the relevant populace isn't going to vote out (or in some cases, isn't going to be allowed to vote out) the representative, the only way to engage with them effectively in a political sense is to sink to their level. At which point we are all well and truly fucked and what gods remain in the world have abandoned us.
Judging from what they said, it took a year to come to fruition and a week to poison the apple. The current kindergarteners are gonna be grown and graduated by the time the red tape lets way for another vote on the matter. Why not just make bills strictly about the thing they are proposing?
Because a bill about adding irrelevant stuff to bills wouldn't pass.
Or it’ll have some insane riders
I've always been confused about how they can legally be like "here's a hundred page bill about this great thing, but buried at the end is this horrible thing we went to push though but no one will see it".
Well, why not vote against it and defend yourself when accused of voting against education?
I don't count on the average American voter to understand nuance
I wouldn't wanna be on the side that constantly keeps allowing this. Oh well, money > people.
Because they don't actually give a shit about society.
Republicans
The legislators passing these laws are interested only in hurting people, getting bribes, and getting reelected so they can continue. Doing something important for society doesn't even factor into their decision making.
The honest truth, is that neither Republicans or Democrats at large give a fucking shit about any of us.
Both parties mostly only do the bidding of the rich.
At the fringes of each group are a handful of monsters and less than a handful of actual decent civic-minded elected officials who are trying to make things better…
…but the problem is that ALL Republican reps are willing to pass measures that don’t cost the rich a dime at all which also happen to sate the ravenous desires of their base’s culture war wedge issues.
Abortion bans, book burnings, scapegoating any marginalized group they can, etc. - costs the rich nothing and the Rs will do it to keep from being primaried by even more insane reps in the same way Marjorie Taylor Green, Boebert, Santos, and others have done before them.
It’s an unfair game, because not only do the Democrats actually have to pass legislation that cost the rich money to make their base happy… which they’re not really willing to do… but on top of that, there are disingenuous liars who will run pretending to believe in legislative changes desperately needed by voters, and then do a complete reverse by doing stupid shit like voting down a slight minimum wage increases in the same way that Sinema did after running a progressive campaign.
History’s most comparable times to the ones we are in now show that we’re kind of fucked… unless another FDR comes along or somehow Biden starts actually doing major shit that the Republicans will scream and squeal about regardless of how heavy a hand he plays…
…and I’m not talking shit like a one time partial tax rebate with esoteric rules like where if your combined income is less than 250%, the poverty line since 2020 and you opt in and apply by filling out 15 pages of forms on some web page that barely works or some other horseshit…
…but like… instantly forgiving all student loans… or Forgiving all medical debt… or immediately begin building high-speed rail across the entire country spending like $10 trillion etc. to do so… like… that kind of shit - something that the most rural red state right wing fucker can’t ignore.
Shit like FDR‘s rural electrification project.
Shit that poor people living in the boonies can actually feel and point too easily that means a REAL tangible difference in their lives…
Shit that cuts through DECADES of propaganda espoused by talk radio via perfectly clear signals that can be tuned into out in the middle of nowhere where the Internet fucking sucks and preachers breaking federal law by spewing objectively false political bullshit in their churches.
But yeah, that’s basically why nothing good ever gets passed and Republicans can do shit like this easily, and do it all the time.
but like… instantly forgiving all student loans… or Forgiving all medical debt… or immediately begin building high-speed rail across the entire country spending like $10 trillion etc. to do so… like… that kind of shit - something that the most rural red state right wing fucker can’t ignore.
Hey this might help ya
Trump just did shit. No one stopped him just because it was illegal. They may have overturned it later, but it got him some fucking brownie points with his base.
Joe needs to rile up the democratic base!
I don't give a shit about the rules. Trump is going to skull-fuck this country if he gets re-elected, and every moment Biden pretends he has no power as the president is another percentage point lost in polling for him.