• Sheridan@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Probably a dumb question, but if the website servers aren’t physically located in Florida, why must the websites follow Florida law?

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      9 days ago

      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.

    • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Because they’re serving users in Florida, so they must abide by laws relating to servicing customers there.

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      8 days ago

      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.

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    9 days ago

    Time to start small-time porn groups.
    Ask your friends for their nudes.

  • Furbag@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Republicans so fuckin’ stupid they’re trying prohibition again, but this time with porn.

  • Wispy2891@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    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

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      8 days ago

      Wasn’t it a video game? I remember some listicle about video games you can’t get anymore, I think by Guru Larry, and it mentioned a Girls Gone Wild game that was like, a trivia game where a girl would flash the camera if you got the question right or something. One of the girls filmed for the game was 17 years old at the time, and signed up with a fake ID, then sued after the game was launched.

      quick google search

      No I’m wrong. That happened but it had nothing to do with Girls Gone Wild, it was The Guy Game by “Topheavy Studios.”

  • DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works
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    9 days ago

    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?

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        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.

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      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.

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    8 days ago

    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.

  • hobovision@mander.xyz
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    9 days ago

    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.

  • CobblerScholar@lemmy.world
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    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