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    Republicans so fuckin’ stupid they’re trying prohibition again, but this time with porn.

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    You know what’ll also protect the children? Releasing the Epstein files.

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    This is disgusting. Does anyone have a list of sites so I can block them all right now?

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      It’s in the title lol. Also new ones pop-up daily especially international ones. Use Bing to find the videos then see the domain they’re hosted at and go from there. When searching bing, put xxx in the search as well and turn off the safesearch bs.

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    Meanwhile, Robin L. Rosenberg of the Southern District of Florida is the judge that blocked the release of the Epstein files.

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    While I won’t contribute to their defense funds because they have all the money in the world, I do support them in spirit. You can’t beat the porn industry. You can only temporarily inconvenience it.

    Suck it, Florida.

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      My favorite is when the sites just block access to IPs in those states instead of trying to comply with the laws with a message that says “Your state won’t let us do business and we refuse to violate your privacy.” VPNs gonna see a huge spike in purchases, and lots of angry gooners gonna start writing their representatives as their favorites sites drop off one by one.

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      In my home town of Houston, the city decided to crack down on the number of topless bars (which developers considered an eyesore). But they still recognized the bigger establishments as lucrative sites for labor exploitation popular with the O&G business community.

      So they found a middle ground. There is now a ceiling on licensed venues, with 16 registrations permitted inside city limits. Each club holding a registration must contribute to a $1M pot that’s provided to the Houston PD’s “anti-sex trafficking” division. This affords police a fund by which they can do “undercover investigation” of establishments.

      Everyone wins.

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        I wouldn’t be surprised if the bouncers are all off duty cops too, or hired from security companies owned by cops. That seems to be a very common arrangement when a business wants to ensure the local department remains friendly.

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    Meanwhile Nascar literally has races sponsored by BlueChew and every other fucking ad during a race is for bent dick disease, all on easily accessed channels.

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    republicans suing republican donors you love to see it

    it also means dick since xvideos is french and headquartered in the czech republic

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    Two problems here.
    One is jurisdiction. If the website is not incorporated in Florida, has no offices in Florida, and does not use Florida servers, why should they be subject to Florida law? Everything they do is completely legal in their home jurisdiction.
    This sort of enforcement is basically impossible on the internet. If anybody can access any website from anywhere, how is the website supposed to keep up with hundreds or thousands of changing jurisdictions each with their own legal requirements? And why should they have to?

    Second is interstate commerce clause of the Constitution. It reserves to the federal government the right to regulate interstate commerce. I would think that demanding that a out of state business change its business practices would fall afoul of that.

    Now it could be argued that since the website advertises in Florida and accepts sign ups from Florida residents, that they do business in Florida. However the simple solution there would be to disable payment for Florida residents.

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      In 2018 SCOTUS ruled that states can require businesses with no physical presence or relationship to a state to collect sales tax for the state, effectively invalidating the Constitution’s Interstate Commerce Clause. Florida may be hoping this precedent along with a corrupt, illegitimate fascist majority in SCOTUS, will allow states to project their own local laws onto the entire country.

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      If the customers are still in Florida and they still earn money in Florida, they are still subject to Florida law.

      The way they handle conflicting requirements in different regions is to use regional flags. It’s quite simple and it’s been done for a long time in more tightly regulated fields like e.g. online shopping.

      If it’s legal to sell weed online in some areas and illegal in others, you can’t just say “Well, our servers are in a region where it’s legal so we send weed all over the world.”

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        Wait, wouldn’t it be legal for a country with legal weed to send it, just illegal go receive it in a jurisdiction where it’s illegal? Like if I lived in the Netherlands I couldn’t be arrested for mailing it to the US, but it’d get stopped at the border.

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      Because they offer their services to people living in Florida.

      Same reason as to why you should include VAT on your prices if you sell to EU citizens

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    If these companies wanted to spin up a lobbying and PR group, they would have huge reach.

    Which would cause other problems down the line, but they’d crush this particular problem.

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    Time to start small-time porn groups.
    Ask your friends for their nudes.

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        1. Appreciate the natural human body as-is. Reject perfection and curated beauty.
        2. To get you must be willing to give.
        3. Some of my friends are indeed very attractive. lol
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            No one mentioned obesity except you.
            Stop projecting your own self-hatred into others.

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            There a vast amount of space between unhealthy physique and the unrealistic beauty standards in media.

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              There is also a vast amount of space between a normal human body and the bodies that most Americans now have. That has nothing to do with the unrealistic beauty standards in media (which is also a thing)

              Obesity is bad, and it annoys me when people start defending it as being beautiful. It’s not, it will kill you in loads of unpleasant ways.

              Get healthy, exercise, eat less, eat less sugars

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                Nobody in the thread above mentioned obesity. Nobody is saying you have to be attracted to obese people. Or disputing that it’s unhealthy.

                It remains true that there is a lot of space between this extreme and the extreme portrayed in media. Body weight is not the only standard, it’s one of many.

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              I’ve met people far more beautiful than most you can see in mainstream media, let alone adult materials.

              (And in case one bitch with ASPD is stalking me, no, I don’t mean her ; that is, this is true for her too.)

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            Obesity is a result of many things. It’s mostly hereditary whatever you are born with, so the comment you are answering is right.

            Just like other cases of “unhealthy”. Just like with them, though, it’s possible to find one’s optimum in food and sports and sleep to feel better, and a person who feels better is usually more attractive.

            But looking like models you can find in the interwebs is just not possible if you are not already like them.

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              Obesity is not hereditary. It is calories in, calories out. You dont have to look like a model, but you dont have to be fat.

              People who feel better are healthy because they aren’t obese.

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                Obesity is not hereditary.

                It usually is.

                It is calories in, calories out.

                Passing through your individual system. Mine, for example, very badly processes sugars. One teaspoon of sugar in tea means I stink like cat piss in half an hour after drinking that tea.

                You dont have to look like a model, but you dont have to be fat.

                There are “fat” models, and also it’s usually not your choice as I have previously said.

                In case someone thinks I have a skin in the game - I’m as thin as a skeleton. But I have family members overweight and you really don’t know what you’re talking about, they are among the most healthy eating people I know and still their weight requires precision and discipline in their diet, both more than you likely ever achieved in life, sorry if rude.

                People who feel better are healthy because they aren’t obese.

                Yeah, it’s better to be healthy and rich than sick and poor, as they say to such statements where I live.

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                  Show me where obesity is hereditary and not habit based?

                  Sugar is still calories and still comes out as burned energy and processing those calories does not matter because it is still burned as energy.

                  They may eat healthy but they eat a lot of healthy food which is still calories and they don’t exercise which is how you burn calories.

                  Why are you taking personal attacks at me? Obesity is literally a self control issue. If you dont exercise, don’t eat as much. If you eat a ton, you have burn those calories or they will store up. This is the just how this works.