Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed lawsuits on Tuesday against the parent companies of Chaturbate and xHamster, claiming that the sites are not complying with the state’s controversial age verification law, HB 1181.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed lawsuits on Tuesday against the parent companies of Chaturbate and xHamster, claiming that the sites are not complying with the state’s controversial age verification law, HB 1181.

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  • kandoh
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    4 months ago

    In this case, you are leaving the state (digitally) and going to a market where the goods are not restricted.

    I’m by no means an expert, but that sounds more like saying when I walk into the tobacco store I’m leaving the public area (the road and the sidewalk) and entering private property (the store), so the responsibility is on the state to post guards outside the exits to make sure I don’t illegally possess tobacco while in public.

    Honestly I think the answer is that the state can place the burden on whomever it wants for as long as the court cases take to get resolved.

    Long term, we should ABSOLUTELY expect these christofascist lunatics to push us towards our own Great Firewall though. That’s definitely the endgame. They want total control over morality backed by the clenched fist of the state.

    Feels like that happened already when they turned on the algorithms in 2014.