A trade group for the adult entertainment industry will appear at the Supreme Court on Wednesday in its challenge to a Texas law that requires pornography sites to verify the age of their users before providing access – for example, by requiring a government-issued identification. The law applies to any website whose content is one-third or more “harmful to minors” – a definition that the challengers say would include most sexually suggestive content, from nude modeling to romance novels and R-rated movies.
Can’t they just threaten to release Republican’s porn accounts? We know they got them.
It’s like the pro-democracy version of the Ashley Madison hack.
That would be hugely illegal, so no, they can’t threaten that.
E: people, tone down your anger. I never said I like these Republican shitheads, I said companies cannot legally publish personal information about their customers without permission. And they can’t.
Saying “Pornhub should just, like, break the law, mannnn, it would be funny!” is not a serious position. It’s not going to happen for obvious reasons.
I guess I should’ve seen this coming. It’s far more fun to be angry than to have reasonable discussions.
Anybody being realistic knows that sites like pornhub cannot legally release personally-identifiable information about their users without consent. It’s illegal, no matter how much dumb-as-fuck people like the person below insist it isn’t.
Honestly, I feel like I’m chatting to climate change deniers here or something. Companies cannot release personally-identifiable information about you without your consent. This is not news.
It’s not illegal at all, what are you talking about.
How the fuck is that not illegal? Companies cannot just release private information about their users.
The US doesn’t have a full-blown GDPR, but it still has laws about what companies can do with people’s data. They can’t just publish information about specific users without their consent. It’s honestly laughable you think that’s legal.
They absolutely can publish non protected information and none of that is actually protected.
Of course it is protected.
Membership is not protected status, any company could publish their membership roll unless their agreements specifically say they cannot and that’s very rare.
No they can’t. Please stop making stuff up. Please stop the lies. You’re spreading misinformation.
Pornhub cannot go around publishing info about specific accounts holders, such as their name and job.
It’s actually insane that you think that’s the case.
Yes the fuck they can. Point to a single law that says they can’t.
I’d say the same to you.
The only thing that can’t release is what is protected. Ssid, dl, address, medical into, disability status, so on so forth.
Your membership is not protected at all in any way especially with porn sites you have no contract with you.
It’s fucking insane that you don’t know it’s both legal and happens constantly, there’s an entire industry and economy based on data scraping to find and release non protected information because of both profitable and legal.
Youd think a ferangi would know the rules of business at least we’ll enough to know what you can skirt and what you can’t rom of keldar.
You didn’t read the tos update, did you.
They can just do it without threat as there is nearly no privacy laws.
Just create a hackersona by taking a random Joker card from Balatro, and make it look like a hacker attack.