Kansas Is About to Pass the Most Extreme Age Verification Law Yet
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An age verification bill in Kansas that is the most extreme in the country has passed both House and Senate and is on its way to the governor’s desk. The bill will make sites with more than 25 percent adult content liable to heavy fines if they don’t verify that visitors are over the age of 18. It also calls being gay “sexual conduct,” which critics say could set up the state for more censorship of LGBT+ citizens.
I'm fucking sick of these laws. Since when was the "party of small government" all about creating literal nanny states?
It always has been, just like how they claim to be fiscally responsible while bringing back trickle down economics to destroy government funding.
They have lied constantly for the nearly 3 decades I have been able to vote.
They take money away from education and remove laws/rules about lying. We're at the top of a mountain of shit built by conservatives and we're going to start sinking.
Since forever?... The party of small government is a slogan... No more true than the wings you get from drinking red bull
Because they have never been the party of small government. You don't need to be the party of small government if you're the party of credulous rubes.
"small government" was an euphemism for "defend rather than desegregate public services"
Small enough to fit in your living room, bed room, computer room, doctor's office, library, kid's classroom, etc.
Laughing as I picture spez and company trying to figure out what percentage of reddit is porn
That dude definitely has a cum box.
That dude definitely is a cum box.
FTFY
I mean Reddit has been trending in the direction to remove NSFW content completely from their site. A couple more laws like this would probably give them the ammo needed to say goodbye.
Tumblr tried to do that.
Tried
And succeeded. Unfortunately, they also succeeded in killing their own platform at the same time.
Y’know, post porn-ban tumblr has seen a bit of an influx of more “professional” type blogs and I think I’m okay with it. More and more podcasts and youtubers I follow are making and maintaining tumblrs.
Obviously I would’ve preferred the porn not be banned in the first place, but given the timeline we’re stuck with I don’t hate where it’s going.
That's bound to go well.
Ya but they also have a very large lgbtq community.
He's gonna have to run a lot more ads to get those numbers down.
I'd wager more than 25%
The anti gay part is the whole point. They're not protecting kids, they're protecting Christian control over kids (pay attention to who's actually doing all the child sex abuse)
This bill is unconstitutional, but we'll have to wait and see if the insurrection-appointed SCOTUS will do their job or if this is like a gifted RV sort of ruling.
Sure they can make being gay illegal. Now lets see them enforce it.
Armed queers bash back.
SocialistRA.org
Wait why is this anti gay?
As in, they can use anti-porn measures to block information from kids about homosexuality in general.
I'm confused. Wouldn't heterosexuality be sexual conduct too? And also block information about heterosexuality of the same nature to kids? How is this specially anti gay
The only way this could be considered anti gay if we're inferring the people in control choose what to block and are homophobic and biased enough to only block homosexual content. That'll fucking explode if it happened.
Also, porn is fucking unstoppable there will be plenty of all kinds of porn for all to see. No worries
TL;DR: IANAL, however, the document this bill references to define what content is harmful to children directly, verbatim defines sexual conduct as including "homosexuality" broadly
Okay so this bill is SB394 (linked above obviously) and it opens with the following
It carries on to later define "harmful to minors" in section h-3 as the following:
If we go look at K.S.A. 21-6402 we can find that it is regarding "Promotion to minors of material harmful to minors" and goes on to declare in section d-2 that "harmful to minors" refers to several things including sexual conduct (I'm omitting this full quote for brevity, you can find it in the linked document).
Now if we look a little further down, we can see that Kansas currently defines sexual content as defined in section d-8:
Considering all this, i think extremely reasonable to believe that this could outlaw LGBTQ+ content from being displayed openly online within Kansas
Edit: fixed sexual conduct/content mixups
I'm going to assume your repeating typos of "content" and "conduct" are accidental and you meant the same word for all times you used one of them...
Holy shit why the fuck is homosexuality in section d-8. It's an easy fix to just delete that one word.
Thanks for sharing and with such detail, honestly you've really outlined the issue and helped me see. The sexual conduct definition is horrendous
Why would they do that? The whole bill was made specifically to include that word.
"The cruelty is the point"
Have you lot considered storming the capitol building and taking over....
Oh yeh, right
Whoops, Yes it was a little past 1am when I wrote that I must've gotten them mixed up which switching back and forth between the documents. I'll double check and correct that in a moment.
I'm sincerely glad you actually read it all, the world can be a little fucked right now.
Yes, but if you only enforce the rules for "dirty homosexuals", it effectively is an anti-gay bill. Conservatives have proven time and time again that they're happy to selectively apply the rule of law in any way that suits them.
Big "if" in my opinion but I'm not a US citizen so I can't really say I'm sure about that.
The bill is a load of shit either way, the world is changing, you can't shield minors from porn.
I am a US citizen. I can assure you it'll be abused because similar bills already have been.
the abuse is the whole point.
It's not an 'if', it's an absolute guarentee. This isn't a new play, this has been their gameplan every single time they do these sort of things.
So according to the comments here, the entire American judicial system is homophobic.
I'm glad I'm not American, how awful.
yes, it's a known problem that one party has managed to 'stack' the entire judicial system with their judges.
literally decades old with no interruption.
Hence why it's a stupid bill. Doesn't make it go away.
How will verification be done? Are they making the websites foot the bill for verification, which pornhub is super against, or are they going to make a centralized device verification, like how Louisiana did, allowing its residents to access pornhub again?
How is the 25% decided? Public content or private, like a Dropbox system? 25% by file size, length (how are pictures counted here), or just per item (would a gallery or picture be the item here)?
These legislatures know NOTHING about technology and how it all works and are just doing this for censorship and LGBTQ+ discrimination.
"Are you over 18?"
"Yep!"
I'm 124 years old. Assuming the website lets you enter 1900 as the birth year.
I wouldn't be so sure, in some countries they want your drivers license or credit card info lol.
There are some sites I don't use anymore because of these changes
Going to repost this
They want to ban it nationwide
-A Promise to America", Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 5, Project 2025
So, holding onto all those old Playboy magazines can be considered an investment. My wife can't argue that!
Not just ban it, but completely outlaw it in the old sense of the word. Anyone who they claim "purveys" or "produces" porn could be on The List (you know the one). Of course, these terms will be defined in the broadest terms (one could likely assume they already have all the bills for this written on some legal expert's hard drive as we speak, just waiting to be delivered to whoever they want to introduce it), and will be applied to pretty much anyone that they wish gone, at any time they wish them to disappear. Did you draw something mildly NSFW in your notebook when you were 12? That's production. Did you write slashfic back in freshman year? Yup, you go on The List.
This also conveniently leaves the door open to class sex education material as "pornography", which several states have already done (these states are generally testbeds for later national propositions).
Seems pretty easy to work around.
If a porn site has 10,000 videos, just add 2,501 non porn videos (just use public domain stuff) and make a button to hide those. Scale those numbers up/down as needed.Just add a bunch of junk LLM-generated videos to pad out the content so that the number of actual porn videos remains 25% of the total. Then just provide a button to hide those AI-generated junk videos.
No, they'd need 30,001 non-porn videos.
Are there even that many NON-porn videos on the internet?
Yes, but they're all of cats.
Perfect! This site contains 100% pussy!
Hell, keep the cat videos and remove the porn. Everybody loves cats.
Paraphrased from a wise man on an old TV show (Scrubs):
Dr Cox: If they removed porn from the internet, there would only be one website left: www dot BringBackThePorn dot com
Not everyone
Everybody but Tim loves cats. And the internet hates Tim.
The internet is full of blanket statements, not everyone loves cats. Tim has a love/hate relationship with cats, just like people some are sweet but they are all assholes.
What do you mean "But"? Its definitely an "And" scenario. Cat videos are a boon to all involved, right?
Or am I too ace to understand the syntax
Yo dawg, I heard you like pussy
Time to make and market a package of 30,000 10 frame long 100 pixel x 100 pixel random videos.
Well, there are a ton of non-porn pet videos.
Edibles and math don't mix for me, lol
Still, just host 30,001 public domain videos or let some LLM generate videos automatically to keep the ratio in check.
I'm all about malicious compliance for stupid laws like this.
This is Ryan Creamer's time to shine.
And this is why we need AI-generated content! Gotta pad those numbers!
(emphasis mine)
They can host as many non-porn videos as they want but it doesn't matter if people aren't watching those videos. For every webpage with porn, they'd have to force the user to visit three webpages without porn first.
Doesn't say "viewed by humans in any calendar month", so there's still a loophole.
In other words, you'll be forced to watch three videos that you don't want to see, in order to see one that you do.
Sounds so familiar...
Doesn't say how long the view time was. Just set 3 quick page redirects before rendering adult content
Might want to check your math, 25% is the maximum 'adult content' allowed.
To use your numbers, a business with 10,000 videos would need +7,500 of them being non-porn to be under 25% and not be fined.
Lol, yeah. Had it backwards.
Land of the free, y’all!
America is a joke
Why is the joke always on us (citizens)?
Okay, as long as it's illegal for everyone else other than asexual people to exist as well.
Get ready for the real life lesson 😉. Mamma and Daddy are going to have to explain all sorts of stuff about birds and bees.
Daddy, what is a DP gangbang? Mom, my BF wants a threesome, is that a soda? No, we don't have sex, we only lick.
It's going to be perfect! And then those sexual retards are going to migrate to LA one day. Or maybe they go to Vegas for their wedding.
Seems like I have to colour in my VPN map further
Article is pay-walled. Does it say how many legislators voted for it?
I highly doubt the democratic governor would sign this bill. Does it have enough to override a veto?
While the Kansas state legislature is almost entirely Republican, they don't tend to override the governor's veto too frequently as they are not as lock step due to having all the power.
Without checking the numbers, this seem like the kind of thing they would let the governor's veto atand so they can use it against her in the next election.
She's term-limited at the end of this term.
Hopefully we've learned our lesson with Brownback.
There is a veto-proof majority. Governor hasn't announced what she plans to do yet
Invest in VPN stock
IDGAF about visitors I just want the people in the porno to be of age and I don't feel like it's being adequately enforced.
Wait, so you'll have to be over 18 to watch Zootopia or Lightyear?
China was first. /s
Based
Oh hey, it's you again, the "Atheism and porn are ThE DeVIlS WoRk" religious nut. Nice to see that tagging system working well
Remember kids, fascist theocratic censorship is a cool feature for these anti-human demons.
we must resist
Just verify your age then lol
The next step of this sort of thing is:
To verify your age, we need your name, birthday, social security number, current address, phone number, and a major credit card on file.
We will store this information in plain text at databreach.gov.
yeah sure, I'm gonna give my fucking driver's license over to elon musk and then criticize a fascist regime. fuck off
Then don't watch porn
Luuullll it's just a slippery slope lolol the fascist GOP will just create a database of sinners lolololol just a little bit of a list in the hands of the most evil motherfuckers on the planet hehehehe
yes, they want a kill list. adults who look at gay porn are gonna be killed by christian nationalists unless we fight back.
Either you're deluded or just want to get children hooked on porn because you're deranged
???
You will have no further chance to tell me of your lord and savior's love.