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Rhode Island Bill will charge $20 fee to unblock porn
7 years ago by themarkymark (78)
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We really should not fear problems like this, because solutions are born from problems. Totalitarian measures like this will just spurr further interest in new technologies to skirt the restrictions. An internet without net neutrality in the short run may look like a totalitarian hell hole, but due to an increased interest in decentralization an internet without net neutrality will ultimately look like an uncontrollable, decentralized, utopia. The free market is already responding to the problems.
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Well put. "Solutions are born from problems." The free market will work it out, in time.
Might I add that YouTube's recent crackdown has only helped platforms like Steemit and Dtube.
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yup..fuck youtube and thank you Dtube
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yo
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Great comment.
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No link to a source???
I think this is what your post missed:
http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/rhode-island-porn-law-would-force-users-pay.html
The article suggests that the bill is likely to die in committee and not become law.
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https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/07/591483927/proposed-law-could-mean-no-such-thing-as-free-porn-in-rhode-island
I don't think it will pass but there will be much more coming now that the gates are open. It just takes one to start it all.
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The sad thing is that the bill was introduced by a couple of Democrats. It would make more sense if it had been introduced by a Family-Values Republican bigamist who was having sex with a minor.
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Times have changed. The dominant force pushing against sexual freedom is Sex Negative Reactionary Feminists otherwise known as snerfs and they're democrats. Because porn apparently "objectifies women".
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Just use a VPN if you live there?
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Come on! half of the people don't know how to use a VPN (I know, it's easy, but I mean a lot of people just dont know, that`s the reality)
Besides there's no need to use a VPN, the normal thing would be that they let you do whatever you want for the service you pay for. If I want to see porn why in hell I have to pay an additional fee, why they have to control what I do.
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Yea I agree it's retarded. I was just offering a solution since there's probably no stopping it.
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and yes I know, the best option is to use a VPN, but why we need to, that's the real problem.
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just install Opera Developer and it has a built in VPN service, for free. No special skills needed. Just open a New Private Window an its is activated. Thank me later
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IDK, i prefer by far TOR, its like a real incognito mode firefox.
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I had it for a year now. At one time the VPN was 7 countries deep not it only US and Netherlands. Still better than having nothing.
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nice post
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By my understanding, people who are not interested in porn will be affected by regulations brought in to inhibit users of porn. It's like a smoking area that also has the probability of non-smokers walking by or being in the vicinity. Or road blocks to test for alcohol-affected drivers that also steals time of non-drinkers. I know I might sound judgmental, but I have no say over others' lives so why should their actions affect mine? Thank you for the post @themarkymark
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This is some bu11shit right here!
The shape of things to come?
As I
don't watch pornlive on an island, I'm safe, for now....Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
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Agreed, but with global warming places that were not islands can become islands due to rising sea levels, so this affects us all.
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so sexy body,,i like it
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yo
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thanks for that information xd
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Sneaky sneaky. This is the age of political correctness, in most Western nations there isn't much that classifies as not being offensive anymore. This is another nail in the coffin of free speech and the notion that it is more important not to offend than it is to speak ones thoughts, which is what this all comes down to, absolute control over freedom.
The fact the porn industry exists as a multi-billion dollar orgy of oligarchic tapeworms and masses of people with no other options is a by-product of the de-industrialisation and financialization of Western economies. I don't know if this will hurt the porn industry or not but if it does there just aren't any jobs for people with those, skills.
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This is totally wrong and I think it's time people start speaking up, the value of the blockchain and people who fight for decentralization of content, power, regulation, money, intellectual content, historic archival contents and anything that is of value to us which can be used to to keep us captive should start speaking up right now. I love entertainment and porn is a part of entertainment, artworks relating to porn and sex act is as old as the civilization of man and its value should not be tampered with. It's time we bring sex out of the dark room and talk about it as it ought to and any regulatory body who feels they have the power to hinder net neutrality belongs to the pre-civilization era of man. I say again, anyone who cares about free speech should care about this. PERIOD!
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I sure hope Substratum doesn't disappoint. .. There's certainly been more than enough FUD about the project that they've come back from quite a bit recently with their limited beta. Still if it succeeds in doing what they say it will it will be one of the most important around
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It will be interesting to see what happens with this.
Proposed by 2 democrats and the verbiage would force ISP's to comply or be fined.
You should make a new 'mockup' showing the government forcing people to pay, instead of the ISP's. All of the fees and fines go right to the government pockets.
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i refuse to see anything wrong about pornography,to the best of man knowledge it helps prevent rape and other sexual related crime.
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We already have wave of bans in our country, sad for me but most of the poor class people don't know any better so it goes well for them. Although the ban isn't fully effective since there are other plenty of sites that are accessible, it's kind of ridiculous.
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Well hopefully it turns out to be a Colorado situation with weed and the porn subscriptions make the government so much tax revenue that they can improve the standard of living and offer new services.
A little sin tax never hurt anyone, its the same for booze and cigarettes. I', just trying to see the bright side here, lol we've been spoilt with access to so much free porn since the arrival of the internet.
Remember when you had to buy tapes and nudely mags?
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"A little sin tax" hurts only the poor and, to an extent, intertwines government and religion, so the practice should be abolished. A luxury tax would be fairer, although still overreaching, some may argue.
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This is some real horseshit
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Beautiful post
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very nice and awesome article @themarkymark, I am really appreciate it a lots.. upvoted already, so please give me your upvote back, thanks
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They want to fill the prisons. More laws create more criminals..
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the real problem porn is not very sensitive for people although children because they need to know it, but there are limits certain should not know by them because not time feared off the control
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Why you are so cute haa
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Nice
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I think that stupid
even if it does not like everyone so everyone should have the right to watch what he wants
What's next, the post is searched for porno newspapers
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I think that stupid
even if it does not like everyone so everyone should have the right to watch what he wants
What's next, the post is searched for porno newspapers
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Jeeze. You can take the Puritan out of the state, but you can't take the state out of Puritanism :)
Incredible. And for the record I don't watch porn.
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I never watched porn either... 👍 😎 👀
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What are you talking about?
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Neo-puritanism
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Esti fata?
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time to move to Europe, this country is getting worse.
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Remember when congress tried to "tax" emails. Tor is the future.
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I guess the goal is keep the weather bad, Keep the people indoors and make them pay to play😈
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My left hand needs to take over so my right can punch whoever's idea this is in the noggin.
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Interesting post. Thanks for sharing.
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And suddenly violent crime in Rhode Island rose by 3000%
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While masturbation fell by an equal percentage?
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Probably a direct corrolation lol.
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hey while i have your attention i have a witness vote question. does it matter if you vote for the maximum number or just 1? I mean does you vote get split 25 ways or you can concentrate it on 1 person. sorry for the dumb question but i couldn't find the answer in a search.
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hey while i have your attention i have a witness vote question. does it matter if you vote for the maximum number or just 1? I mean does you vote get split 25 ways or you can concentrate it on 1 person. sorry for the dumb question but i couldn't find the answer in a search.
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Malo? Bueno? mmm... a veces las mejores intenciones terminan en ganancia para los peores... gracias por el post
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HAHAHA I'll see a few friends worried about having to pay that fee. But considering all the money generated by the pornographic industry will not affect them. There will always be consumers willing to cancel those $ 20 Greetings from Venezuela
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PSA - You may have to go back to looking at Victora Secret Catalogues.
I have no problem paying for what I access on the Internet. Society as a whole accepts sin taxes.
Information on the Internet is free only because of tech smart people not because society believes in free access to everything and anything.
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I would say I do not like at all where this could lead...
A slippery slope indeed..
Ugh. Thanks for bringing this to light.
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They'd better start stockpiling
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This article is very interesting to read...
I just love it, and I'll wait for the next article...
👌
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Not sure it will look like this. More likely the cable companies will simply raise prices on the dumb pipe, thus when you THINK you're "cutting the cord" by cancelling your $60 per month cable bill and replacing it with $20 per month for Netflix and Hulu, the dumb pipe company will simply up your internet access charge from $45 per month to $60. So then what was once $110 per month for you 5 years ago, and is $65 now, will quickly become $80. That'll sit for a year, and then they'll raise prices again, and again, and eventually your Netflix & Hulu plus MLB or whatever sport you watch will become > $110 per month you had 5 years ago. Cord officially cut, blood in your wallet.
You didn't think you could win, did you??
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What a good post, thank you for your good contribution to this social network, is what we want good contribution, congratulations, keep it up!
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You are correct! It will only start with porn and soon will be many other things!
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wow,,, well information,,, it help to us... thanks for share
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Have you happened across any info regarding a decentralized net? I think this is the solution we're going to need and I'd like to look into it farther but it's been difficult finding good info on it.
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Crazy to think this is happening in 2018.
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soon only wealthy people will be able to afford to look at naked people online.
Where is pornhub when you need them?
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Does that mean no more HBO in Rhode Island!? haha JK :)
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interesting... i think @peppernrino will appreciate this...
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Informative news for porn lover.
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@rabeel this not time to be odd man out, u may feel it does not affect you but if we allow regulators get away with these type of regulations then it's only a matter of time before they make regulations that will affect you personally.
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nice post :)
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I think it is a right decision from the government. What is your thinking?
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I like your post. I'm sure no one here looks at porn and won't affect them, but this opens the door to the fears many had about the lack of Net Neutrality.
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i believe people are more smarter that this
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great post.
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This is great info. Seems like they want to charge for everything now. I love your post topics. I will look at them today.
Upvoted. Resteemed.
Joy
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Rhode Island wants to treat adults like they need protection. Pornography is no longer offensive. Pornography is sex and sex is no longer offensive. This sounds like some religious style law to remove sex from society.
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Congratulations @themarkymark!
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"Most of the people who join the porn industry come from broken homes. Many of the girls are sexually abused. So the porn industry actually lures in these kind of people to exploit them. So basically when someone is watching pornography, what you're really doing is contributing to the demise and destruction of adult survivors of sexual child abuse who are on drugs and have physical disease. That's really what you're watching because I promise you, nobody in that industry is healthy. - Shelley Lubben, Ex-Porn Star and Executive Director of Pink Cross Foundation
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You need to take a look at Substratum, they are trying to solve this issue
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Interesting for sure. The whitepaper seems really strong.
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