<story><title>E621, Pornhub, and others block North Carolina residents</title><url>https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/12/29/major-pornographic-blocks-users-nc-response-new-law/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>While I strongly disagree with this NC law, and others, your analogy is a bad one.&lt;p&gt;As a society I think we&amp;#x27;ve accepted that some things (cigarettes, alcohol, sex, etc.) should be restricted from children. That&amp;#x27;s a far cry from requiring ID every time I go to the grocery store. But, as long as I&amp;#x27;ve been alive, you &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; had to show ID to purchase alcohol, and the sky hasn&amp;#x27;t fallen.&lt;p&gt;Again, I think these types of laws are particularly poorly thought out, but I don&amp;#x27;t buy the &amp;quot;slippery slope into dystopia&amp;quot; arguments, and I think there are better arguments against it.</text></item><item><author>mjevans</author><text>What if you had to show Government ID whenever you entered a grocery store, a library, a movie theater?  What if you were tracked each time you consumed a video, a still image, an audio clip, or even a text message?&lt;p&gt;What if the government kept a record of any or all of those checks?  What if they arranged for third parties to commercialize that data so they could &amp;#x27;legally&amp;#x27; end-run any restriction on domestic spying with a small ad targeting data service fee?&lt;p&gt;This is the sort of dystopia that librarians and others focused on liberty have been fighting for what seems like forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>LammyL</author><text>It is one thing to show ID. It is an other thing to show ID and have the details stored in a database in perpetuity by companies who don’t have huge budgets for data privacy and security.</text></comment>
<story><title>E621, Pornhub, and others block North Carolina residents</title><url>https://www.foxcarolina.com/2023/12/29/major-pornographic-blocks-users-nc-response-new-law/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hn_throwaway_99</author><text>While I strongly disagree with this NC law, and others, your analogy is a bad one.&lt;p&gt;As a society I think we&amp;#x27;ve accepted that some things (cigarettes, alcohol, sex, etc.) should be restricted from children. That&amp;#x27;s a far cry from requiring ID every time I go to the grocery store. But, as long as I&amp;#x27;ve been alive, you &lt;i&gt;have&lt;/i&gt; had to show ID to purchase alcohol, and the sky hasn&amp;#x27;t fallen.&lt;p&gt;Again, I think these types of laws are particularly poorly thought out, but I don&amp;#x27;t buy the &amp;quot;slippery slope into dystopia&amp;quot; arguments, and I think there are better arguments against it.</text></item><item><author>mjevans</author><text>What if you had to show Government ID whenever you entered a grocery store, a library, a movie theater?  What if you were tracked each time you consumed a video, a still image, an audio clip, or even a text message?&lt;p&gt;What if the government kept a record of any or all of those checks?  What if they arranged for third parties to commercialize that data so they could &amp;#x27;legally&amp;#x27; end-run any restriction on domestic spying with a small ad targeting data service fee?&lt;p&gt;This is the sort of dystopia that librarians and others focused on liberty have been fighting for what seems like forever.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hattmall</author><text>You had to show ID to buy porn magazines, go in a strip club or even the adult video rental room.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s pretty insane that we have no check for an unlimited amount of free porn with all kinds of extremes.&lt;p&gt;It fucks up a lot of kids   (and adults).&lt;p&gt;Showing porn to a random kid on the street would have you catch a charge if not something worse, but somehow on the Internet it&amp;#x27;s just fine?</text></comment>