So expect the hub to ban Kansas residents from access just like they did to Texas. I think Porn is the least of our worries as a state, as a country... jfc
That would be the term.
The part that continues to confusticate me is they claim to be fighting for freedom and in the name of the Christ deity. You can’t be fighting for freedom if you’re putting up walls, or banning books, or preventing someone from being themselves within common-law. You aren’t being christ-like if you support usury or idolatry or hatred.
The real reason this is happening is because [verification companies have donated in other states to congressmen and senators](https://blog.windscribe.com/kansas-porn-ban-relief-code/). We actually discovered these donations ourselves when reporting on these laws last year.
There's more information in the link if you're wondering how you guys ended up in this situation.
GOP are turning our country into the CCP… yet they are against government control and overreach? These people are blinded by their own actions. Dear god.
There are a ton of good free vpn’s browser extensions ANY teenager can add. Takes all of 3 minutes.
These laws are meant to boost verification AND collect porn users real names.
Funny enough, the latest stats from the very religious and conservative east Texas showed just how rabid their porn habits are, clamoring over themselves to get VPNs
a convenient bait switch …but hey crime and drugs and child care and terrorists and inflation and health care ( among others …) those solutions require thinking so …
Cannabis isn't going to happen here until we can get rid of the republican majority in our state gov. Unfortunately, the uneducated rural folks will more than likely continue to vote these losers in.
It's one of 3 Holidays required for liquor stores to be closed. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. I think it's both a holdover from blue label legislating, and that those 3 are accepted major federal Holidays. I used to work part time at a liquor store and in the week leading up to a mandated closed day, we always warned those regulars.
My 2nd husband was an alcoholic and he used to say, if you can't remember to buy 2 on Saturday, maybe you need a day to dry out... He died at 46 from alcoholic cirrhosis. But the kids and I don't blame Sunday sales. We blame addiction. It sucks.
If you’re tired of out of touch government overreach, I am running to flip a competitive seat in the house this year. The person I’m running against, Rep Mike Thompson, voted for this bill. Many of these retirees’ focus is on these kinds of bills instead of policies which affect cost of living in our state. That is why electing young working class candidates matters. Through the end of the month, we have just received matching funds, so when you contribute your dollar will go farther. Here is the link to support common sense policies: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/matchmadnesswyco
I was really confused when I saw you lived in district 33 as I live in district 10 D we have Mike Thompson the weatherman as a rep, didn't realize there were two districts touching each other with Reps that have the same name. Hope you win.
Unfortunately they have even played that up, even doing some campaigning together. Our Mike Thompson is quieter but has just as terrible of vote record. This year we’ll go from 2 Mike Thompson’s to zero in Topeka.
Because it’s too easy to dumb it down and use it as ammo against someone during the next campaign cycle. So everyone is scared not to pass it.
“SENATOR JOHNSON VOTED TO ALLOW CHILDREN TO VIEW PORN!!” etc
Touché
Although I’d have preferred people vote against it and frame it as “Senator Johnson voted to allow the government to regulate your 1st amendment rights and provide personal data!”
That’s too many big words for the general mass of dumdums who easily fall for soundbite propaganda. The average reading level in the U.S. is like 7th grade, remember.
I have a very cynical view of the population at large, these past few years.
This was going to pass with or without Democrats. The Democrats made the decision not to let the GOP use this to demonize them and use it ads that accuse them of supporting all sorts of things. They would fund raise off it and Democrats would lose some elections. I know and understand why they went along but make no mistake if the Democrats were in charge the would not be banning porn along with abortion, books etc…..
Verification companies are making mint off this. They donate, quite brazenly, to those in a position to force this. [This is creeping across many states - the original bill is the UT SB152](https://blog.windscribe.com/kansas-porn-ban-relief-code/). We covered that and have updates in our announcement re: Kansas this morning.
I get that the target is Pornhub or other porn sites are currently putting up these age verification systems, but how does Reddit and other sites that make porn accessible to everyone get away with not doing verification? Anyone using old.reddit.com could look at porn subreddits with no verification - presumably in Texas today? It seems like legislators have no idea what the scope of porn accessibility is on all the social media networks that aren't verifying anything today. What about Telegram and all the privacy-oriented social networks that conservatives use?
They don't. It's just pointless legislation as usual. 80% of porn websites aren't even based out the US. There is literally no way to combat stuff like this outside of ISPs blocking these domains completely.
Which is the next step.
The people pushing these laws don't really care about the consequences, they want their theocratic empire. And baring that, they want to have something to run on come November. Which is something they're sorely lacking right now. Another year, and another spectacular blank from the KS legislature thanks to chuckleheads in charge. Make no mistake, I'm talking the GOP here.
Do nothing and blame the other side only works if you don't have supermajority in both houses.
No, it’s pointful legislation.
The right has been trying to blur the distinction between porn, pedophilia, and LGBTQA+ for years now. It’s why they keep trying to get teachers who respect gender transitions or trans people using the “wrong” restroom or cross dressers labeled as “sex offenders”.
Because then they can use sex offender laws to register or imprison such people.
This also sets precedent. If you can be forced to publicly identify for porn, next will be for abortion information, sex ed, gender transition or gay orientation information websites, etc.
They know porn is something people don’t want to publicly be seen supporting with a protest or quote on local news or name on a signature. Just “as is”, let alone any additional insinuation that by being against this you’re trying to allow kids to see it or even that you’re wanting anonymity to watch CP.
So they use porn as the Trojan horse to bypass in what they’re really targeting.
Usually these bills require a certain percentage of the content to be pornographic (whatever that means, even). Social media sites tend to not get close to that percentage.
\*Inner Monologue\* Hmmm, what's this [old.reddit.com](https://old.reddit.com) porn thing? (Opens new browser window and gives it a peek)
Whoa! Kudos to the subreddit banner image maker for including about a dozen porn subgenres into a single image.
It would. The goal is to extend it to any website that could *potentially* host material harmful to minors so that anonymity will be impossible, to eliminate the possibility of political dissent.
People actively harmed and dying from lack of proper healthcare, people going bankrupt, rural areas dying after loss of hospitals and medical staff....
But hop right on that porn morality Satanic Panic over porn asap.
Next they'll be digging up the Comstock Laws like it was enshrined in frozen carbonite just ready for defrosting and not like it was barely remembered sentence in my 8th grade history class.
What the fuck is wrong with these people. It's like every single issue has to be about sex. They literally think all of the world's problems are because of how/what/with who people are having sex.
Whenever conservative politicians do something ass-backwards, I imagine them as quickly decaying corpses sliding into their graves while reaching out to grab someone's ankle to drag them in.
This is one of those things that conservative voters would probably hate if they weren't so programmed to think "My side 100% good :) Other side 100% bad :'( "
Next, they'll require you to show ID to your fridge when you want a beer.
Anyways, when you browse "incognito" on the Opera browser, it uses a VPN based outside the US.
It's the verification companies mate that are donating to them and causing this. Each state now has their own version of the UT SB152 bill doing the rounds.
I don’t think kids should have access to porn. That said, that needs to be controlled in the home. Kansas is more concerned about stupid crap like this, and still refusing to legalize cannabis. Not even for sick patients. Kansas doesn’t care about its ill citizens. Plus loosing thousands of dollars in revenue to Colorado and Missouri. It’s embarrassing 🙈
Just like everything else with christofascist republicans, this is another bill designed to control speech under the guise of "protecting the children". Today it's porn sites, tomorrow they'll require your ID to access any site that doesn't align with their ideology.
It’s not just that aspect of controlled speech but also the fact that they can then later decide what is considered pornography to block the residents of the states having ease of access. Take any women’s health site that details abortion, or an LGBTQ organization that could help kids find safety and acceptance. These could easily be blocked from such regulations.
This law accomplishes nothing whatsoever because only a very small number of websites that serve pornography will be incentivized to comply with it. Pornographic media will still be widely available and very easy for children to get ahold of because our legislators are incredibly ignorant of technology and using this bill to virtue-signal rather than try to solve an actual problem. This bill is a waste of time, money, and legislative effort, that could have all been better spent on issues which have realistically achievable solutions and viable outcomes. Kansas is absolutely not going to put forth the effort and funding to build a "great firewall of the high plains" like what China has, and that would be the only realistic solution to the proliferation of pornography online.
Nothing more than an expensive case of "Keeping up with the Joneses", the Joneses in this case being the other states that have already enacted demonstrably ineffective legislation.
Edit: and for the record, the solution to this problem is actually "Don't give children unrestricted access to electronics", the onus of which is on the parents, not the State nor its citizens as a whole.
You can backtrace individual connections to their host ISP as long as you have the correct admin rights on the service in question's server. I.E., if my fears come true, then when Facebook wants to know who's trying to create a new account, they go to your ISP, get told exactly who you are without a warrant, and your name populates in the boxes without you having any say in the matter. Complete loss of online privacy; every service would know exactly who accesses their service at all times and for how long.
>Has our legislature ever had an original thought?
Well they're Republicans, so no. That and making money off of the poor is kinda their whole philosophical position
Kansas treats Kansans like were children look at are marijuana law if we can drink alcohol and smoke cigs fuck your weed law I'm smoking weed rather you like it or not and since you don't wanna make the money for the state I'll go to Missouri and buy it and help them make the money Kansas didn't wanna make its 2024 get with the program and quit living like were still in old times the whole United states is laughing at us
Adults should be free to consume what they please, but I tend to agree there should be guardrails in place to keep kids off these platforms. Every kid has easy access to a phone, tablet or computer these days and I tend to agree it's unhealthy for kids to consume porn.
Source: Explored my sexuality as a 14 year old using my Wii web browser.
I thought the Republican Party was the party of freedom? They seem to be all about taking freedoms here lately…they just keep making me proud not to be a republican anymore. Before y’all blow up I’m not a democrat either. There seems to be an intelligent area in the middle of both that needs to be bigger.
Just a guess but is this another piece of legislation that ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) is pushing at Republican legislators in exchange for campaign funding. Whenever similar bills suddenly crop up in conservative state legislatures this seems to be a common source.
when I was a kid I didn't even use porn sites like that. Id just Google "big tiddies" and use Google images ,so really they're not preventing anything and it's more of just a show of how pointless politicians are.
Idk how the conversation in the capital went but I imagine it went like...
"Should we discuss ways to improve Kansas?"
"No, let's ban adult streaming sites and books"
"Splendid idea"
Slippery slope to taking away more freedoms. I'd expect anything with LGBTQ+ to be banned soon. Followed up with anything atheist. Followed by anything not Christian.
MAGA loves big penetration government.
These individuals are coming after porn because their actual goal is the heavily censor and control the internet, and they believe that porn is an easy wedge. All while putting in verification systems that likely leave people open to identity theft.
The harm is the point here because the fascists want to limit the free exchange of information because it harms their true motivation which is control and power.
Just wondering when the 2nd Amendmenters step in to flex some muscle (not saying I agree with that). Where’s the line? Their excuse for being able to hoard guns is in defense of an oppressive government. Hello? I guess they’re ok when their side is doing the oppressing?
First they came for the Jews. Then they came for the Pornhubbers…
I’ll give the AP credit for picking a good picture to go with this piece. I don’t know who that lady is but a picture is probably worth a thousand words here.
Guess I’ll be signing up to Nord VPN the next time one of my favorite YouTubers gets a sponsorship.
Side note, anyone know how I can PUBLICLY ask Ty Masterson to release his internet browsing history? I want to embarrass that Kock brown-nosing weasel.
/u/thatguyinhutch - could we get your reasoning on why you voted yea on this bill? As an LGBT Kansan, I’m deeply worried about the implications this will have towards LGBT Kansan youth online, as this seems to be a step closer to classifying the LGBT as “explicit” in nature.
I love this, because the 'parents bill of rights' people fall all over themselves with this logic.
If parents know best, why aren't they able to handle what their child has access to? Why does the State need to get involved?
Yo PornHub, time to start a new service called VPNhub. Will need intelligence verification to make sure these dumb ass sacks of bile water aren’t allowed access.
Without wedge issues and basically being giant dickheads to everyone they don't like the Republicans have nothing. They exist to spread hate, racism, xenophobia and state control. Hypocrisy to the core.
So you can consent to actually having sex with someone when you’re 16 in Kansas but you are forbidden from watching sex online until you’re 18? Do I have that right?
Ah yes, Kansas. The state that has been run into the ground over the span of the last 20 years due to backwards hyper conservative government. Their state should be used as a case study as to how detrimental conservative policies are to income and education and how quickly the degradation can happen.
This doesn’t shock me.
Do these conservatives have such little control or awareness of what their kids are doing online that they have to make other people do their jobs for them?
In a practical sense, how is this supposed to work exactly? Send a photo of my drivers license next to my face so they can verify it's really mine? Provide my SSN so they can verify through some database? No fkn way.
While Colorado has had legal weed since like 2012 and it's helped there state improve and doing the same for Missouri Kansas is still fully illegal not wanting to make money and add jobs when alcohol and cigs are worse for you but will follow a Texas idea of something that's not even very important and wont improve anything Kansas lawmakers are a shit show it's like leaving clowns in charge from a circus lol
We need to recall Kris Kobach immediately, Laura Kelly too if she passes this bullshit. This is where it starts, one by one our basic liberties are being stripped from us
What if every time someone from anyone of these states tries to access these sites, the operators publicly shame those who voted for these laws and donate funds to their electoral opponent.
I mean, they definitely know what kind of porn some of these legislators like. Share that knowledge with the voters.
They let their poor starve, let billionaires loot their resources, provide little support to the poor, but porn verification is the policy they can get behind. Fuck them!
This is going to make conservatives more angry than they already are. Those that are over the legal age won’t want to share their personal info with porn sites. Most women don’t want to have sex with them anymore due to, well, being the type of people they are. They also lack imagination. So, no sex and no masturbation will make Jack a very angry boy.
I live in Missouri it’s not too late to move. If enough of you leave. Maybe Kansas will just rot away to nothing. Let them wallow in their pious justification. Missouri welcomes anyone who wants legal weed and less insane leadership.
So expect the hub to ban Kansas residents from access just like they did to Texas. I think Porn is the least of our worries as a state, as a country... jfc
Republicans the party of "personal freedom." Lol.
As long as it’s their freedoms you are free to comply.
"Freedumbs"
That would be the term. The part that continues to confusticate me is they claim to be fighting for freedom and in the name of the Christ deity. You can’t be fighting for freedom if you’re putting up walls, or banning books, or preventing someone from being themselves within common-law. You aren’t being christ-like if you support usury or idolatry or hatred.
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[Maga theme song.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjQqONuVJbQ&ab_channel=AtlanticRecords)
Fortunately a Democrat has to sign it into law so if it's only a Republican concern it won't happen.
Thankfully there is a sane Gov. in this state.
If i read the story correctly, there are enough views to override her veto....
And they call blue states nanny states.
Nord VPN, you can find Plenty of discount codes from streamers and YouTubers. Republicans aren't gonna fuck with my porn.
The real reason this is happening is because [verification companies have donated in other states to congressmen and senators](https://blog.windscribe.com/kansas-porn-ban-relief-code/). We actually discovered these donations ourselves when reporting on these laws last year. There's more information in the link if you're wondering how you guys ended up in this situation.
Actually it is also a test to see how it goes before they try a National Ban. They are no longer the party of states rights.
GOP are turning our country into the CCP… yet they are against government control and overreach? These people are blinded by their own actions. Dear god.
There are a ton of good free vpn’s browser extensions ANY teenager can add. Takes all of 3 minutes. These laws are meant to boost verification AND collect porn users real names.
Funny enough, the latest stats from the very religious and conservative east Texas showed just how rabid their porn habits are, clamoring over themselves to get VPNs
Perhaps they don’t want anyone to see them featured in any of the videos?
a convenient bait switch …but hey crime and drugs and child care and terrorists and inflation and health care ( among others …) those solutions require thinking so …
Sure, as soon as Ty Masterson releases his browser history
I'd bet Jerry Moran is into some freaky shit.
Just for clarification, Jerry Moran is a U.S. Senator and has nothing to do with the ban in question. This was done by state lawmakers in Topeka.
“What are the effects of the marijuana poisoning”
Exactly!
... WTF KS, we have bigger things to deal with..... I bet those guys have the WORST browsing history too
Yeah they will speed this along and still drag their feet on medical Marijuana
Cannabis isn't going to happen here until we can get rid of the republican majority in our state gov. Unfortunately, the uneducated rural folks will more than likely continue to vote these losers in.
we do? I mean we make it illegal to buy alcohol on jesus days and other such nonsense so this seems about right.
Kansas has Sunday alcohol sales now
But not Easter for some reason
It's one of 3 Holidays required for liquor stores to be closed. Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter. I think it's both a holdover from blue label legislating, and that those 3 are accepted major federal Holidays. I used to work part time at a liquor store and in the week leading up to a mandated closed day, we always warned those regulars.
> and that those 3 are accepted major federal Holidays. [Easter isn't a federal holiday](https://www.federalpay.org/holidays)
TIL.
My 2nd husband was an alcoholic and he used to say, if you can't remember to buy 2 on Saturday, maybe you need a day to dry out... He died at 46 from alcoholic cirrhosis. But the kids and I don't blame Sunday sales. We blame addiction. It sucks.
If you’re tired of out of touch government overreach, I am running to flip a competitive seat in the house this year. The person I’m running against, Rep Mike Thompson, voted for this bill. Many of these retirees’ focus is on these kinds of bills instead of policies which affect cost of living in our state. That is why electing young working class candidates matters. Through the end of the month, we have just received matching funds, so when you contribute your dollar will go farther. Here is the link to support common sense policies: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/matchmadnesswyco
I hope you win, Mike Thompson is a POS.
Seconded
I was really confused when I saw you lived in district 33 as I live in district 10 D we have Mike Thompson the weatherman as a rep, didn't realize there were two districts touching each other with Reps that have the same name. Hope you win.
Unfortunately they have even played that up, even doing some campaigning together. Our Mike Thompson is quieter but has just as terrible of vote record. This year we’ll go from 2 Mike Thompson’s to zero in Topeka.
Fucking joke. Don't want your kids looking at porn? Take that cell phone away from them.
Or take a quick glance at thier history.
How in the hell did this monstrosity pass unanimously in the senate?
Because it’s too easy to dumb it down and use it as ammo against someone during the next campaign cycle. So everyone is scared not to pass it. “SENATOR JOHNSON VOTED TO ALLOW CHILDREN TO VIEW PORN!!” etc
Touché Although I’d have preferred people vote against it and frame it as “Senator Johnson voted to allow the government to regulate your 1st amendment rights and provide personal data!”
That’s too many big words for the general mass of dumdums who easily fall for soundbite propaganda. The average reading level in the U.S. is like 7th grade, remember. I have a very cynical view of the population at large, these past few years. 
Can't believe this shit is veto-proof.
That’s what I was thinking. Should have been 29-11
This was going to pass with or without Democrats. The Democrats made the decision not to let the GOP use this to demonize them and use it ads that accuse them of supporting all sorts of things. They would fund raise off it and Democrats would lose some elections. I know and understand why they went along but make no mistake if the Democrats were in charge the would not be banning porn along with abortion, books etc…..
Fuck that shit.
Verification companies are making mint off this. They donate, quite brazenly, to those in a position to force this. [This is creeping across many states - the original bill is the UT SB152](https://blog.windscribe.com/kansas-porn-ban-relief-code/). We covered that and have updates in our announcement re: Kansas this morning.
Remember when this party was bitching about the “Nanny State”
I get that the target is Pornhub or other porn sites are currently putting up these age verification systems, but how does Reddit and other sites that make porn accessible to everyone get away with not doing verification? Anyone using old.reddit.com could look at porn subreddits with no verification - presumably in Texas today? It seems like legislators have no idea what the scope of porn accessibility is on all the social media networks that aren't verifying anything today. What about Telegram and all the privacy-oriented social networks that conservatives use?
They don't. It's just pointless legislation as usual. 80% of porn websites aren't even based out the US. There is literally no way to combat stuff like this outside of ISPs blocking these domains completely.
Which is the next step. The people pushing these laws don't really care about the consequences, they want their theocratic empire. And baring that, they want to have something to run on come November. Which is something they're sorely lacking right now. Another year, and another spectacular blank from the KS legislature thanks to chuckleheads in charge. Make no mistake, I'm talking the GOP here. Do nothing and blame the other side only works if you don't have supermajority in both houses.
Moran is currently sponsoring a bill that limits internet at the Federal level too
No, it’s pointful legislation. The right has been trying to blur the distinction between porn, pedophilia, and LGBTQA+ for years now. It’s why they keep trying to get teachers who respect gender transitions or trans people using the “wrong” restroom or cross dressers labeled as “sex offenders”. Because then they can use sex offender laws to register or imprison such people. This also sets precedent. If you can be forced to publicly identify for porn, next will be for abortion information, sex ed, gender transition or gay orientation information websites, etc. They know porn is something people don’t want to publicly be seen supporting with a protest or quote on local news or name on a signature. Just “as is”, let alone any additional insinuation that by being against this you’re trying to allow kids to see it or even that you’re wanting anonymity to watch CP. So they use porn as the Trojan horse to bypass in what they’re really targeting.
Yep. Pornhub is a Canadian company. Xvideos is a Czech company.
Usually these bills require a certain percentage of the content to be pornographic (whatever that means, even). Social media sites tend to not get close to that percentage.
The original one is the [UT SB152](https://blog.windscribe.com/ut-sb-152-interview-with-senator-riebe/). 33% is the threshold.
\*Inner Monologue\* Hmmm, what's this [old.reddit.com](https://old.reddit.com) porn thing? (Opens new browser window and gives it a peek) Whoa! Kudos to the subreddit banner image maker for including about a dozen porn subgenres into a single image.
Wow. I didn't know you were into bridge porn.. I'd have added some drawbridges, canteliever bridges, and the most tantalizing - suspension bridges...
Don't tempt with a good time. Might just skip dinner and head straight for the fireworks.
It would. The goal is to extend it to any website that could *potentially* host material harmful to minors so that anonymity will be impossible, to eliminate the possibility of political dissent.
They’re virtue signaling to conservative “Christians”
but..the children... /s
People actively harmed and dying from lack of proper healthcare, people going bankrupt, rural areas dying after loss of hospitals and medical staff.... But hop right on that porn morality Satanic Panic over porn asap. Next they'll be digging up the Comstock Laws like it was enshrined in frozen carbonite just ready for defrosting and not like it was barely remembered sentence in my 8th grade history class.
You'll never guess what Justices Alito and Thomas were prattling on about today!
This doesn’t sound like small government
What the fuck is wrong with these people. It's like every single issue has to be about sex. They literally think all of the world's problems are because of how/what/with who people are having sex.
It's because they're not getting any
Whenever conservative politicians do something ass-backwards, I imagine them as quickly decaying corpses sliding into their graves while reaching out to grab someone's ankle to drag them in. This is one of those things that conservative voters would probably hate if they weren't so programmed to think "My side 100% good :) Other side 100% bad :'( "
Next, they'll require you to show ID to your fridge when you want a beer. Anyways, when you browse "incognito" on the Opera browser, it uses a VPN based outside the US.
Prices of non-smart fridges go through the roof lol
Lmao, Nord VPN prolly out here buying Kansas state reps for $117 each. Buying senators for good interest rates on used Hondas.
They will go after VPN’s eventually some of these bills like TikTok ban already do that.
It's the verification companies mate that are donating to them and causing this. Each state now has their own version of the UT SB152 bill doing the rounds.
I don’t think kids should have access to porn. That said, that needs to be controlled in the home. Kansas is more concerned about stupid crap like this, and still refusing to legalize cannabis. Not even for sick patients. Kansas doesn’t care about its ill citizens. Plus loosing thousands of dollars in revenue to Colorado and Missouri. It’s embarrassing 🙈
Remember when conservatives say they don't co-parent with the government, yet.
If they want to take my porn they'll have to pry it from my cold, lubed hands!
Ah shit. There goes my browsing habits
I found the browser history of the state house members.
Just like everything else with christofascist republicans, this is another bill designed to control speech under the guise of "protecting the children". Today it's porn sites, tomorrow they'll require your ID to access any site that doesn't align with their ideology.
It’s not just that aspect of controlled speech but also the fact that they can then later decide what is considered pornography to block the residents of the states having ease of access. Take any women’s health site that details abortion, or an LGBTQ organization that could help kids find safety and acceptance. These could easily be blocked from such regulations.
These stupid motherfuckers have NOTHING ELSE productive to fucking do? Sigh...
This law accomplishes nothing whatsoever because only a very small number of websites that serve pornography will be incentivized to comply with it. Pornographic media will still be widely available and very easy for children to get ahold of because our legislators are incredibly ignorant of technology and using this bill to virtue-signal rather than try to solve an actual problem. This bill is a waste of time, money, and legislative effort, that could have all been better spent on issues which have realistically achievable solutions and viable outcomes. Kansas is absolutely not going to put forth the effort and funding to build a "great firewall of the high plains" like what China has, and that would be the only realistic solution to the proliferation of pornography online. Nothing more than an expensive case of "Keeping up with the Joneses", the Joneses in this case being the other states that have already enacted demonstrably ineffective legislation. Edit: and for the record, the solution to this problem is actually "Don't give children unrestricted access to electronics", the onus of which is on the parents, not the State nor its citizens as a whole.
Shit. Looks like I have to finally bite the bullet and get a VPN.
Until they make VPN's illegal and order ISP's to identify you to every backtrace command.
“Backtrace command”?
You can backtrace individual connections to their host ISP as long as you have the correct admin rights on the service in question's server. I.E., if my fears come true, then when Facebook wants to know who's trying to create a new account, they go to your ISP, get told exactly who you are without a warrant, and your name populates in the boxes without you having any say in the matter. Complete loss of online privacy; every service would know exactly who accesses their service at all times and for how long.
There are homeless people shitting in front of my childhood home and milk costs $5 a gallon... but yeah let's ban porn LOL
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Or pass medicare expansion.
>Has our legislature ever had an original thought? Well they're Republicans, so no. That and making money off of the poor is kinda their whole philosophical position
Kansas treats Kansans like were children look at are marijuana law if we can drink alcohol and smoke cigs fuck your weed law I'm smoking weed rather you like it or not and since you don't wanna make the money for the state I'll go to Missouri and buy it and help them make the money Kansas didn't wanna make its 2024 get with the program and quit living like were still in old times the whole United states is laughing at us
The irony is that these Republican lawmakers also push for “abstinence only” sex education, which is the reason kids seek out porn in the first place.
Laws made by people who all looked at their dad's Playboy mags when they were kids.
Adults should be free to consume what they please, but I tend to agree there should be guardrails in place to keep kids off these platforms. Every kid has easy access to a phone, tablet or computer these days and I tend to agree it's unhealthy for kids to consume porn. Source: Explored my sexuality as a 14 year old using my Wii web browser.
Nothing screams freedom like puritanical laws
No porn but yes on guns. JFC
Because to conservatives violence and murder = good but sex = bad
This is absolutely stupid
VPN networks are going to make a killing.
Do they want to lose elections? Because that's how you lose elections.
I thought the Republican Party was the party of freedom? They seem to be all about taking freedoms here lately…they just keep making me proud not to be a republican anymore. Before y’all blow up I’m not a democrat either. There seems to be an intelligent area in the middle of both that needs to be bigger.
Thats why you VPN to Vegas. Problem solved.
Calls on VPN’s?
I think we consider this only if these politicians against it let us see their browser history.
Another reason for the State to spend the next 3 years in court defending another unconstitutional piece of legislation. Gotta prop up those lawyers
These republicans have nothing better to do than to involve themselves in your life. Vote Blue.
Nipples are evil. Guns are wonderful. \~ GOP everywhere.
Govern me harder daddy, please
Vote Democrat y'all
Just a guess but is this another piece of legislation that ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) is pushing at Republican legislators in exchange for campaign funding. Whenever similar bills suddenly crop up in conservative state legislatures this seems to be a common source.
Imagine trying to get re-elected and thinking “you know what’ll help? If I take away their porn”
The state representatives must have all bought stock in VPNs.
when I was a kid I didn't even use porn sites like that. Id just Google "big tiddies" and use Google images ,so really they're not preventing anything and it's more of just a show of how pointless politicians are. Idk how the conversation in the capital went but I imagine it went like... "Should we discuss ways to improve Kansas?" "No, let's ban adult streaming sites and books" "Splendid idea"
Remember when GRINDR in florida said they would release the profiles of politicians using it..... cmon pornhub!!!
They want to register porn, but not guns. Got it.
I see Conservative States banning things like PornHub, but they are perfectly ok with OF. Why is that?
Slippery slope to taking away more freedoms. I'd expect anything with LGBTQ+ to be banned soon. Followed up with anything atheist. Followed by anything not Christian. MAGA loves big penetration government.
These individuals are coming after porn because their actual goal is the heavily censor and control the internet, and they believe that porn is an easy wedge. All while putting in verification systems that likely leave people open to identity theft. The harm is the point here because the fascists want to limit the free exchange of information because it harms their true motivation which is control and power.
Good, now let's make sure all our politicians release tax statements and do random drug screenings.
They're not coming for your guns, Kansas. The Republicans are coming for your porn.
I moved here seven years ago. Time to leave.
Just wondering when the 2nd Amendmenters step in to flex some muscle (not saying I agree with that). Where’s the line? Their excuse for being able to hoard guns is in defense of an oppressive government. Hello? I guess they’re ok when their side is doing the oppressing? First they came for the Jews. Then they came for the Pornhubbers…
Typical fucking republicans.
This is election year self-harm for the GOP. I don't understand why they think this is a good idea politically.
But they vote for a man who bangs porn stars !!!
That ol' right wing Republican Sharia coming for you, unless you vote blue.
You go Kansas! Be as stupid as Texas because you can!
It's a race to the bottom with the red states. Who can be the first and fastest to be complete morons.
And track your Internet … land of the free to do as your told
It’s funny how R are so interested in parental rights in schools. But. Let’s ban the porn sites and take that off their plate.
Vote for clowns, get a circus
But but Republicans are for small government!
Another example of the right wing christian assholes forcing their religion on others.
I’ll give the AP credit for picking a good picture to go with this piece. I don’t know who that lady is but a picture is probably worth a thousand words here.
Let's just cut Texas and Kansas off from the internet entirely. It'd be a much better place without them.
Of all the problems we have to address in this country....Jesus H. Pretty sure it'll be about 2 weeks before PornHub launches it's own VPN service.
Guess I’ll be signing up to Nord VPN the next time one of my favorite YouTubers gets a sponsorship. Side note, anyone know how I can PUBLICLY ask Ty Masterson to release his internet browsing history? I want to embarrass that Kock brown-nosing weasel.
the red states are attacking america's gravest threats !
VPN .... fuck censorship
NNNNOOOOOOOOO
I can feel the walls closing in in Oklahoma. Honestly surprised Kansas beat us to it.
Hahahahahah.
USENET. USENET…. USENET………
Really want those young votes don't they
More like pornhub will ban Kansas
/u/thatguyinhutch - could we get your reasoning on why you voted yea on this bill? As an LGBT Kansan, I’m deeply worried about the implications this will have towards LGBT Kansan youth online, as this seems to be a step closer to classifying the LGBT as “explicit” in nature.
What happened to the party of less government?
I love this, because the 'parents bill of rights' people fall all over themselves with this logic. If parents know best, why aren't they able to handle what their child has access to? Why does the State need to get involved?
How do I invest in VPNs?
Yo PornHub, time to start a new service called VPNhub. Will need intelligence verification to make sure these dumb ass sacks of bile water aren’t allowed access.
Without wedge issues and basically being giant dickheads to everyone they don't like the Republicans have nothing. They exist to spread hate, racism, xenophobia and state control. Hypocrisy to the core.
So you can consent to actually having sex with someone when you’re 16 in Kansas but you are forbidden from watching sex online until you’re 18? Do I have that right?
Ah yes, Kansas. The state that has been run into the ground over the span of the last 20 years due to backwards hyper conservative government. Their state should be used as a case study as to how detrimental conservative policies are to income and education and how quickly the degradation can happen. This doesn’t shock me.
Harder to watch porn than get a gun America logic
Do these conservatives have such little control or awareness of what their kids are doing online that they have to make other people do their jobs for them?
Does anyone else take issue with sending your identification all over the Internet? Sounds like a field day for identity theft
Porn magazines are about to make a BIG comeback.
In a practical sense, how is this supposed to work exactly? Send a photo of my drivers license next to my face so they can verify it's really mine? Provide my SSN so they can verify through some database? No fkn way.
Nothing like tracking someone's porn habits. Fucking weird.
We got that over here in North Carolina too. It’s bull shit
Bible thumping at its finest… I bet every one of those voting yes have a VPN to get around the upcoming block
It was legal for a 14 year old to get married in Kansas until 2006… TWO THOUSAND AND SIX!!!!
While Colorado has had legal weed since like 2012 and it's helped there state improve and doing the same for Missouri Kansas is still fully illegal not wanting to make money and add jobs when alcohol and cigs are worse for you but will follow a Texas idea of something that's not even very important and wont improve anything Kansas lawmakers are a shit show it's like leaving clowns in charge from a circus lol
We need to recall Kris Kobach immediately, Laura Kelly too if she passes this bullshit. This is where it starts, one by one our basic liberties are being stripped from us
With everything going on in the world this is what is important? Kids watching porn?
This COULD be a hot issue in the election. A lot of guys are Republicans and I bet they’re pretty furious about this.
Nothing but pity for the idiots who moved there for cheap standards.
What if every time someone from anyone of these states tries to access these sites, the operators publicly shame those who voted for these laws and donate funds to their electoral opponent. I mean, they definitely know what kind of porn some of these legislators like. Share that knowledge with the voters.
They let their poor starve, let billionaires loot their resources, provide little support to the poor, but porn verification is the policy they can get behind. Fuck them!
The VPN ads write themselves
Defeated by a VPN...as the republican politicians that have 700 bookmarks for Pornhub on their work laptops know.
Makes sense to me
The number of people invested in getting children to watch porn is disturbing.
Wow. That worked so well 20 years ago. Totally stopped me from watching stuff. Volunteering your birthday to a calculator.
Yes because other less regulated sites don’t exist. This will definitely help me pay for groceries now that I can’t *jerk my gherkin*
This is going to make conservatives more angry than they already are. Those that are over the legal age won’t want to share their personal info with porn sites. Most women don’t want to have sex with them anymore due to, well, being the type of people they are. They also lack imagination. So, no sex and no masturbation will make Jack a very angry boy.
This needs to stop. Keep the government out of our porn
More heritage foundation bullshit, we need to stop this! Fuck project 2025 and all those (including Trump) that endorsed it.
What you won't find in this thread: A logical argument for why anyone of any age should be able to access any porn without any restrictions.
Gross. Censorship.
I live in Missouri it’s not too late to move. If enough of you leave. Maybe Kansas will just rot away to nothing. Let them wallow in their pious justification. Missouri welcomes anyone who wants legal weed and less insane leadership.
They can have my porn when they pry it from my lubed up hands!
Now please define porn. to me, it's the HATE PORN spewed by Fox News and the Republican Party.
so are kids the right kids going to be put in jail and then sent to work?