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Porn sites must have government health warning in Texas from September 1st::Just when we didn’t think the state of Texas could get any more wacko on tech policy, this latest bill really suggests otherwise. House Bill 1181 is an age verification measure that is similar to what we’ve seen in the state legislatures across other red U.S. states. You have an age verification proposal that is similar…

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Just ignore it in the same way you do with California's everything gives you cancer warnings.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have lived in california more than a decade. Still waiting on that cancer.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (5 children)

CAs warnings are designed to force producers to make a version of their products that’s less likely to kill people available (and required in CA). That’s helpful to everyone.

The intention of this sort of warning label isn’t to make porn better, it is to build toward banning porn entirely. California isn’t trying to ban industrial production, so of course people are going to respond differently.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

This pisses me off.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

It's always projection...so...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What if not? Block it? Just more DNS users.

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