Papers please: for millions of Americans, accessing online pornography now requires a government ID. It could have global implications for the future of the web.
There was some way to either steal a “dirty” magazine, buy one from an older teenager, or check out the one you found at your friend’s house that his dad had in a drawer somewhere.
If all else failed, there was always the Sears catalog.
Pitching your desire to block pornography against the collective sex drives of the whole populace is a recipe for you losing and look stupid doing it.
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Morons, all of them. You’re not getting that genie back in the bottle.
I grew up pre-internet and still found plenty of porn, as did the hypocrites making these laws.
There was some way to either steal a “dirty” magazine, buy one from an older teenager, or check out the one you found at your friend’s house that his dad had in a drawer somewhere.
If all else failed, there was always the Sears catalog.
Pitching your desire to block pornography against the collective sex drives of the whole populace is a recipe for you losing and look stupid doing it.
Easiest solution: point the fucking DNS to a family safe one and lock it behind passcode. Done.
This is how you “protect the children.” Not by making a burden on everyone else. I don’t need age verification on the internet, ever.
What do you mean lock it behind a passcode? How?
After war on drugs failed you got to spend all that anger on something and find a new enemy.