Pornhub Is Pulling Out of Florida
gizmodo.com
Starting January 1, Floridians can no longer legally come to Pornhub.

At the dawn of the new year, Pornhub will leave Florida. Thanks to a harsh new age verification law that takes effect on January 1, the porn giant will no longer do business in the sunshine state. The law mirrors similar laws passed in other Republican led states where Pornhub has stopped doing business.

  • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    While Pornhub pulling out of Florida (US) may not be the end of the [email protected], the underlying trend of pornography criminalisation for “modesty” can easily translated into sexual control and control of sex.

    As we all know by now, sexual control is gendered against women and queers, racialised, et al.

    Control of sex on the other hand is well substrated in Anti-Choice or bodily autonomy-denying discourse as well as population control for classist, racist etc. motives.

    Since when is Florida scared of sex? Since it hates minorities. (IMO)

    • CmdrShepard42@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      2 hours ago

      It’s much broader than sex though:

      Florida’s law is HB3. The law is broad. It requires a website that provides material that is “harmful to minors” to provide a means of “anonymous age verification” to its minors. What does it mean for material to be “harmful to minors?” According to the law any material that “the average person applying contemporary community standards would find, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest.”

      I guarantee this will be used (or at least attempted) to silence political speech critical of local governments. It’s far too easy to come up with even the weakest justification for why something isn’t appropriate for children and Republicans have an army of useful idiots ready to parrot their rhetoric and convince everyone else who isn’t paying attention to what’s happening.

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      13·
      4 hours ago

      further, paradoxically, denying access to porn puts women in more danger. most porn consumers will probably just get a vpn and roll with it. but enough of them will translate their frustration into violence against women for it to be a problem. we know this because we’ve seen it before. sex work is degrading, dehumanizing, and exploitative, but banning it consistently makes it worse, not better, for the people most endangered by it.