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Porn sites must have government health warning in Texas from September 1st::Just when we didn’t think the state of Texas could get any more wacko on tech policy, this latest bill really suggests otherwise. House Bill 1181 is an age verification measure that is similar to what we’ve seen in the state legislatures across other red U.S. states. You have an age verification proposal that is similar…

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[-] dragonflyteaparty@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago

There is room to talk about the handful parts of porn, but this certainly isn't the way to do it. Porn doesn't increase anyone's desire for a prostitute or pedophilia. That's just insane. There could be evidence that it reduces one's self esteem, but we'd have to study that. This is just Texas furthering the nanny state and actively requiring lying to people. Again.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 year ago

Porn actually helped me further my skills in building automation. It gave me a target for learning to scrape websites. Of all the things I've built for myself, this was one of the most generous projects in that I had tons of room for refinement as my skills grew.

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