https://www.chron.com/culture/article/x-adult-content-policy-twitter-19493384.php

So Texas has this new age verification law for porn sites which was upheld. Some sites like pornhub now geo block IPs from Texas in response to Paxton's lawsuits.

Twitter always allowed porn but the policy changed on X recently to explicitly allow it. Paxton has supported Elon's changes to liberate Twitter. We'll see if he sues them now like he did pornhub.

You have to age verify your Twitter

Nice try lib

I think you just enter your age, twitter doesn't ask me for a government ID to "verify" my age.

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That's not now the new law works. You don't just lie about your age anymore.

Try visiting a porn site that complies with the law from a Texas IP for an example.

Four Seasons Landscaping said:

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That's not now the new law works. You don't just lie about your age anymore.

Try visiting a porn site that complies with the law from a Texas IP for an example.

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That's absolutely how it works. You don't upload an ID for any of them

Sounds like Twitter is true to the ideology of free speech.

"Verify your age" is a joke. Like kids can't do math and change a birthdate.

itsyourboypookie said:

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Four Seasons Landscaping said:

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That's not now the new law works. You don't just lie about your age anymore.

Try visiting a porn site that complies with the law from a Texas IP for an example.

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That's absolutely how it works. You don't upload an ID for any of them

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No. Texas law requires actual ID or personal info based verification, but it is based on the amount of content considered porn. That's how Reddit and others can get around it. Foreign hosted sites don't care because Texas can't do much to them.

If Twitter gets hit by the age verification law they could easily make it where any account posting porn is blocked unless a user verifies their age.

All other accounts would still be visible like normal.

IIRC, there are about 20 or so states who have passed the same law. Some are in effect; others will come into force over the next year.

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combat wombat said:

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"Verify your age" is a joke. Like kids can't do math and change a birthdate.

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That's not how it works.

If you think "just lie about your age on that little drop down" is the answer, you have no clue whatsoever how the new Texas law works and shouldn't be spreading false info.

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If Twitter gets hit by the age verification law they could easily make it where any account posting porn is blocked unless a user verifies their age.

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What makes you think they can do that?

They can't keep the porn bots out of replies to completely benign business-related posts.

Four Seasons Landscaping said:

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If you think "just lie about your age on that little drop down" is the answer, you have no clue whatsoever how the new Texas law works and shouldn't be spreading false info.

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Um, so I haven't been spreading ANY info. But I know people whose kids did precisely what I said. I suppose that was before this law.

It was either before the new law or it was on a site that didn't comply with the law.

It's only been in effect since earlier this year and the Supreme Court didn't give the final approval until late April

For the record, I think X is absolutely in violation of the new law with their new policy of leaning in on porn, but I also think they don't have anything to worry about. In this era where legality depends on your political stance, they're in a unique situation.

AGs in the conservative states that would pass these kinds of laws won't prosecute Elon because he's currently a golden boy.

AGs in liberal states won't have the opportunity to enforce these laws because they won't pass.

I'm surprised. It's not some little soft-core content, it's full on porn. Crazy.

Meanwhile, I don't know if you've ever checked out Reels on Facebook, but I've seen clips of women breastfeeding their babies (actually it's dolls that look like babies) popping up on there. I've got to admit it's not my thing.

Such a waste and political targeting of old idiots. Ask your 12 year old grandkid what a VPN is

A waste of what?

gabehcoud said:

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Such a waste and political targeting of old idiots. Ask your 12 year old grand kid what a VPN is.

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I think porn is absolute poison, but you're probably not wrong about the VPN being able to get around the porn-prohibitive statute. Anyone who is guarding their privacy and networks is using VPN these days. The wife and I used a VPN to get around Hulu's geo-fencing issue when we were out of town.

VPN is an easy way around it but is also irrelevant to the subject of the article, the fact that Twitter has decided to become a porn provider, at least partially, without verifying the ages of its users.

The way the law was constructed, they're not going after the people watching it. They're going after the content providers.

Rapier108 said:

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If Twitter gets hit by the age verification law they could easily make it where any account posting porn is blocked unless a user verifies their age.

All other accounts would still be visible like normal.

IIRC, there are about 20 or so states who have passed the same law. Some are in effect; others will come into force over the next year.

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I would be perfectly fine with this because pornbots are horrible on Twitter. They reply instantly if you mention Onlyfans or other specific keywords. They even follow my account. It's hilarious when they like my posts though. I think every rw account has at least 5-10 pornbots that like most of their posts. So I guess in that regard, thanks pornbots for helping me ratio idiots.

Nanomachines son said:

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Rapier108 said:

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If Twitter gets hit by the age verification law they could easily make it where any account posting porn is blocked unless a user verifies their age.

All other accounts would still be visible like normal.

IIRC, there are about 20 or so states who have passed the same law. Some are in effect; others will come into force over the next year.

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I would be perfectly fine with this because pornbots are horrible on Twitter. They reply instantly if you mention Onlyfans or other specific keywords. They even follow my account. It's hilarious when they like my posts though. I think every rw account has at least 5-10 pornbots that like most of their posts. So I guess in that regard, thanks pornbots for helping me ratio idiots.

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Almost every account that regularly posts has some version of "Link in Bio" posting replies to them. So annoying to see 5 replies on a Real Time WW2 post only for them all to be porn bots instead of some interesting additional details.