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Challenge to Texas age-verification on porn sites comes to Supreme Court. (www.scotusblog.com)
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A trade group for the adult entertainment industry will appear at the Supreme Court on Wednesday in its challenge to a Texas law that requires pornography sites to verify the age of their users before providing access – for example, by requiring a government-issued identification. The law applies to any website whose content is one-third or more “harmful to minors” – a definition that the challengers say would include most sexually suggestive content, from nude modeling to romance novels and R-rated movies.

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[–] WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Fascism wants an internet where you have to verify your identity to use it at all. Capitalists want the same, and they've already built a turnkey totalitarianism mass surveillance precursor to big brother on behalf of neoliberal "democracies". They will 100% finish the job for fascism. This was always the endgame of mass surveillance.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago

I’m a capitalist, and that’s not what I want.

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 8 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Capitalists shouldn't want the same. You can't sell advertisements with "a million viewers" if you have to be honest about 990k of those being bots.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You're applying very 1990s thinking to internet advertising. They have ways of telling which ads lead to clickthroughs and sales. You say "We got 100 million viewers!" They say "cool, we'll run ads on your program and give you five cents every time the unique link in those ads results in a purchase."

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

No one is paying per sale. Click through, sure.