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Pornhub disables website in Texas over objection to age verification law (www.houstonchronicle.com)

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[–] ConstableJelly@beehaw.org 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Last month, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the company that owns Pornhub to force compliance with the state’s age verification law and threatened millions of dollars in civil penalties.

My brain has actually defaulted to thinking of Ken Paxton as a particularly vile time traveling pilgrim, whose immediate response to arriving in the present day was outrage that the world had changed and a divine conviction that it was his purpose to revert the world to the puritanical Christian dominance that made him feel warm and safe in his own time.

That's easier for me to comprehend than that an actual 21st century person has this many stupid, hateful ideas he's willing to happily tie his name to.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago

Being under indictment for years causes stress?