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Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms( XVideos, XNXX, BangBros, GirlsGoneWild, GTFlix TV and more) accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law

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Attorney General James Uthmeier Fights to Protect Children from Online Pornography; Brings Lawsuit Against Foreign and Domestic Porn Distributors | My Florida Legal

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Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms( XVideos, XNXX, BangBros, GirlsGoneWild, GTFlix TV and more) accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law

www.myfloridalegal.com /newsrelease/attorney-general-james-uthmeier-fights-protect-children-online-pornography-brings

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Florida can drown in hell
- I think they literally will, eventually.
Isn’t this like mainstream advertising for these sites in places they can’t advertise?
Republicans so fuckin' stupid they're trying prohibition again, but this time with porn.
- Well, at least they don't already have an issue with organized pedophile rings operating within their state, right?
- Oh they're coming for everything but alcohol.
  
  And pedos!
- Prohibition was a failure as a moral crusade but enormously successful as a money making and politicking endeavor.
  slapping the hood of the police state: You can fit so many more cops in this thing!
While I won't contribute to their defense funds because they have all the money in the world, I do support them in spirit. You can't beat the porn industry. You can only temporarily inconvenience it.
Suck it, Florida.
- My favorite is when the sites just block access to IPs in those states instead of trying to comply with the laws with a message that says "Your state won't let us do business and we refuse to violate your privacy." VPNs gonna see a huge spike in purchases, and lots of angry gooners gonna start writing their representatives as their favorites sites drop off one by one.
- In my home town of Houston, the city decided to crack down on the number of topless bars (which developers considered an eyesore). But they still recognized the bigger establishments as lucrative sites for labor exploitation popular with the O&G business community.
  So they found a middle ground. There is now a ceiling on licensed venues, with 16 registrations permitted inside city limits. Each club holding a registration must contribute to a $1M pot that's provided to the Houston PD's "anti-sex trafficking" division. This affords police a fund by which they can do "undercover investigation" of establishments.
  Everyone wins.
Seethe hard Santis.
This is disgusting. Does anyone have a list of sites so I can block them all right now?
- It's in the title lol. Also new ones pop-up daily especially international ones. Use Bing to find the videos then see the domain they're hosted at and go from there. When searching big, put xxx in the search as well and turn off the safesearch bs.
- "Oh, those disgusting revenge sites. But there are so many! Which ones!!!"
I feel like porn websites have money and lots of reasons to want to burn Florida.
Meanwhile, Robin L. Rosenberg of the Southern District of Florida is the judge that blocked the release of the Epstein files.
- Only when it comes to policing morality. When it comes to gun violence, fuck them children; they are on the own.
  Ronnie De Santis
  
  fuck them children
  literally, i suppose, in the case of the republicans
  
  or child marriages (legal pedophila), or protecting pedophiles, then they literally fuck the children
TIL about a bunch of new porn sites cause republicans cant understand the streisand effect.
Well now I have some new sites to visit
If these companies wanted to spin up a lobbying and PR group, they would have huge reach.
Which would cause other problems down the line, but they'd crush this particular problem.
- I gotta admit, I’d love to see what their lobbying could accomplish.
Two problems here.
One is jurisdiction. If the website is not incorporated in Florida, has no offices in Florida, and does not use Florida servers, why should they be subject to Florida law? Everything they do is completely legal in their home jurisdiction.
This sort of enforcement is basically impossible on the internet. If anybody can access any website from anywhere, how is the website supposed to keep up with hundreds or thousands of changing jurisdictions each with their own legal requirements? And why should they have to?
Second is interstate commerce clause of the Constitution. It reserves to the federal government the right to regulate interstate commerce. I would think that demanding that a out of state business change its business practices would fall afoul of that.
Now it could be argued that since the website advertises in Florida and accepts sign ups from Florida residents, that they do business in Florida. However the simple solution there would be to disable payment for Florida residents.
- In 2018 SCOTUS ruled that states can require businesses with no physical presence or relationship to a state to collect sales tax for the state, effectively invalidating the Constitution’s Interstate Commerce Clause. Florida may be hoping this precedent along with a corrupt, illegitimate fascist majority in SCOTUS, will allow states to project their own local laws onto the entire country.
  
  So that's why every site started charging sales tax at the same time. Wonderful.
- If the customers are still in Florida and they still earn money in Florida, they are still subject to Florida law.
  The way they handle conflicting requirements in different regions is to use regional flags. It's quite simple and it's been done for a long time in more tightly regulated fields like e.g. online shopping.
  If it's legal to sell weed online in some areas and illegal in others, you can't just say "Well, our servers are in a region where it's legal so we send weed all over the world."
  
  Wait, wouldn't it be legal for a country with legal weed to send it, just illegal go receive it in a jurisdiction where it's illegal? Like if I lived in the Netherlands I couldn't be arrested for mailing it to the US, but it'd get stopped at the border.
  
  That's a perfect analogy, I love downloading weed from websites.
- Because they offer their services to people living in Florida.
  Same reason as to why you should include VAT on your prices if you sell to EU citizens
You know what'll also protect the children? Releasing the Epstein files.
- I mean, for once, this isn't just a chant. Epstein was the supplier but we have yet to nail his customers to the wall.
Time to start small-time porn groups.
Ask your friends for their nudes.
- Can I borrow some of your friends, all of mine are ugly.
  
  Appreciate the natural human body as-is. Reject perfection and curated beauty.
  To get you must be willing to give.
  Some of my friends are indeed very attractive. lol
  
  That just makes the session last longer
Meanwhile Nascar literally has races sponsored by BlueChew and every other fucking ad during a race is for bent dick disease, all on easily accessed channels.
- Pyronis disease 😭
- Don't forget the sports betting and poker apps! Good clean wholesome gambling! Sponsoring your favorite athletic entertainment!
  
  And all the alcohol ads.
  
  Ah. That explains it. Conservative pols are extorting porn sites for donations.
republicans suing republican donors you love to see it
it also means dick since xvideos is french and headquartered in the czech republic
- it also means dick
  Really?! Where? 👀
  
  On all those blocked porn websites
  
  Public airport restrooms and the like.
- thats where alot of euro-porn is based in
  
  yeah that czechs out
  sorry i'll see myself out
Girls gone wild is still in activity? Didn't they lost the lawsuit for coercing all those girls and even have some minor in their videos?
Fuck them
- I did a bit of googling as you unlocked that memory, but it's actually Girls Do Porn.
  If anyone hasn't heard of them, you can read about it here https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/03/jane-does-v-girlsdoporn-how-22-millennial-women-brought-down-a-porn-empire/
  It's absolutely horrendous and I feel incredibly sorry for these women. It definitely made me feel uncomfortable watching porn for a while.
Prelude to a closed (north korea/russia style) internet?
- Don't forget China-style. But yes.
Probably a dumb question, but if the website servers aren't physically located in Florida, why must the websites follow Florida law?
- They conduct business in Florida. Their customers aren’t porn watchers, but people who buy ad space. They could stop selling ads in Florida, but they won’t.
- State prosecution argues if there's access in Florida, the site must follow their laws. These sites need to georestrict access and should have done it the day law went into effect.
  
  This is like me saying I have a bucket of books that are illegal in your state but legal in mine. You come to my state and take the books back to yours. Who broke the law?
  
  Pornhub blocked Texas day one
- Because they're serving users in Florida, so they must abide by laws relating to servicing customers there.
  
  I’d argue it’s on the state to figure that out (for better or worse). My site is on a globally connected network, if you don’t want your citizens doing something, you figure it out. It’s not my job.
- the companies/sites itself can block the site from being acessed from florida though if they choose. yea if it accesible from florida, they have to follow the legislation there.
  
  yea if it accesible from florida, they have to follow the legislation there
  Why?
  
  block the site from being acessed from florida though if they choose
  How? I do not think we know of a reliable way, DNS blocking get bypassed by alternative DNS ( and ISP probably do not have per state DNSes) , IP blocking get bypassed via VPN, etc. They can say they did put in place something but it is like puttimg a fence without walls around, it is just symbolic.
Girls gone wild!?!? What are they making 12 year olds verify their age to jack it to infomercials at 3am?
- Its kinda funny how this bill is being introduced under the premise of "protecting children" but Girls Gone Wild is still allowed to operate after getting caught multiple times distributing child pornography
  And by funny obviously I mean horrifying
  
  In a state that recently tried removing a bunch of child labor laws.
  
  We can't release the Epstein list, but we're proud to announce the newest Amazon Exclusive release from the Epstein Films catalog!
  
  Not funny like a Woody Allen movie, funny like a Woody Allen marriage
- They have no idea what kids are capable of overcoming to access porn.
  
  I think I saw a nipple!
Solution:
Make a site only available in [insert a privacy-respecting country]
Then anyone else gets redirected to a "This website is not available in your country, please use a VPN and set it to [country]"
???
Profit?
- Band-aid for a gun shot wound.
  We need to make the very politicians, activists, etc., who made these kinds of laws possible to fear for their lives.
- Yeah the key there is to invest in shares in a VPN company.
  
  My shithole(ruzzia) is actively trying to shut them down. Now it's a hefty fine for advertising VPN, and they recently even added law that punishes "search of illegal content". Whatever the hell they mean by that.
xvideo is affiliate of ph, or at elast its parent company. the other 2 are probably the same too. quite interesting florida gop has to go out of thier way to find the more obscure sites mentioned.
Unrelated to the article itself, but god fucking damn is that website absolutely absurd. It looks like a shitty campaign website. The sad sad man changed the seal of the office and put an eagle (because books are lame I guess) and "free state of florida" at the bottom like that's a real thing. Can't believe this works on people.
Should be worried about Trump being a child rapist and the Epstein files.
- Why not both?
  
  Both what?
Oh thank goodness they didnt name my go to for obtaining porn.
- "... and more."
  Þey should enforce age verification to look at DeSantis' stupid face.
  
  His face is probably the most offensive thing in Florida, at least when a certain someone isn't at Mar-a-Lago...
  (Also: nice thorn!)
  
  Upvote and a salute for Þe use of Þe Þorn character.
He'll be running for higher office very soon. He's been in at least one abhorrent headline a week for months. Hope they find the CSAM on his laptop soon so I can stop hearing about this incompetent asshole
- LoL STUPID LIBTARD! Republicans LOVE CSAM! Just look at how they Treat Jeffrey Epstein and his BEST FRIEND Donald J Trump!
- desantis had his chance with the presidency, he has to be looking for US senate.
  
  I mean sure but this article isn't about Desantis
- It was planted by evil sick democrats
To beat your meat, you must provide a drivers license.
No card. No cum.
🤣
- Welcome to my new website "Card n' Cum"
This is going to be the dreamworks and pirate bay situation all over again.
I need a good porn tor hidden service. Any good ones?
- Tor?
  I mean, do you need anything more þan Tor? Doesn't þat do it, all by itself?
  
  Always good to have hidden services instead of having to go to the regular clearnet using Tor.
"Cost of doing business"
- Lol less than a week old account with the dumbest take of the day. Obvious troll. Try harder.
- Social media is brain rot too
  Said so on "Social media"
- Uhhh what kind of freaky shit are you watching for that to be the image you have of porn?
- I don't think you're understanding the issue here. It's not a "porn is bad" issue. It's a foreign government dictating how a service that is not hosted in their country is run issue.
  If you think Florida has any right to dictate how a French company is run then idk what to tell you. Florida has no jurisdiction in France.
- Totally missing the point like an idiot.
  But yes let's let the USA set the rules for content in other countries by means of government regulation and pressuring visa to become the morality and wrong think police. What could go wrong????
- Porn has been around since cave paintings. 😐
That wil be interesting

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