Republicans so fuckin' stupid they're trying prohibition again, but this time with porn.
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2025
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Well, at least they don't already have an issue with organized pedophile rings operating within their state, right?
Oh they're coming for everything but alcohol.
And pedos!
Why would they go after themselves.
To quote dear leader who is most definitely implicated and ran his campaign on releasing the Epstein files, "Are we still talking about Epstein!?"
Every day. Forever.
republicans: who fucks children?
I personally can't wait for people to start making porn in the backwoods and running away from the cops while fucking in the bed of their pickups.
shits gonna be wild.
Prohibition was a failure as a moral crusade but enormously successful as a money making and politicking endeavor.
slapping the hood of the police state: You can fit so many more cops in this thing!
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.
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.
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.
This sounds very much like the mafia wetting their beak.
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.
Florida can drown in hell
I think they literally will, eventually.
Isn’t this like mainstream advertising for these sites in places they can’t advertise?
This is disgusting. Does anyone have a list of sites so I can block them all right now?
"Oh, those disgusting revenge sites. But there are so many! Which ones!!!"
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.
Meanwhile, Robin L. Rosenberg of the Southern District of Florida is the judge that blocked the release of the Epstein files.
TIL about a bunch of new porn sites cause republicans cant understand the streisand effect.
Only when it comes to policing morality. When it comes to gun violence, fuck them children; they are on the own.
- Ronnie De Santis
fuck them children
literally, i suppose, in the case of the republicans
or child marriages (legal pedophila), or protecting pedophiles, then they literally fuck the children
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I feel like porn websites have money and lots of reasons to want to burn Florida.
Seethe hard Santis.
You know what'll also protect the children? Releasing the Epstein files.
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Well now I have some new sites to visit
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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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.
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.
So that's why every site started charging sales tax at the same time. Wonderful.
Yup. When it comes to fucking the people the SCOTUS votes in unison.
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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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