Tennessee law requiring age verification for online porn sites starts Jan. 1 (why is no one talking about this?)
it’s not about porn.
it’s about eroding internet privacy.
the ultimate goal is to have everything you say and do online linked to a digital ID and completely remove any sort of anonymity.
the government desires more authoritarian control over the internet; republicans will do it to save kids from porn, democrats will do it to save kids from hate speech.
How are they going to verify age? Ask for ID and make you hold it up to your monitor?
Opera browser on your phone has built in VPN 
I’m not giving my ID to a fucking porn site. VPN it is
An yes. The party of small government.
They’ve already done this in Indiana. Most sites have blocked access and refuse to collect that data. So you need a VPN or purchase a subscription.
First they take our semi legal weed, and now our totally legal porn? Fuck this place.
Now let’s talk about who gets to decide what is porn.
Brokeback mountain? Harlequin romances? Things that portray anatomy at all?
My university banned “porn” sites on campus and then I couldn’t get images of the pelvic floor anatomy for an actual anatomy class for nurses.
Which is exactly why I say, when others are fighting for a cause & you don’t really care because it doesn’t affect you, just wait, your turn is coming. When you see wrong speak up. You’ll still have the people who say, well, I don’t watch porn so I don’t care. It’s all a slippery slope.
All of my pornhub videos NOOOOOOO! 
ah yes the party of government small enough to live in your bedroom
It’s unconstitutional, outrageous, and ineffective. But the citizens of Tennessee continue electing American Nazi’s, and stupid ones at that, to the state legislature. Thank goodness for the federal judiciary.
No one is talking about it because no is surprised at the levels of bullshit the Republican state supermajority will reach.
Get a VPN.
Oof… As someone who just moved to Utah for work, get ready for this page!!!
As others have said, Opera Browser has a built in VPN that works.
As someone who doesn’t “partake” of pornography, this probably won’t affect me, but I feel like NO ONE is talking about it. Are people aware it’s even a thing?
My fear, as an avid reader, is that books containing material Republicans dislike will be restricted by libraries. Hopefully something that won’t affect me, an adult, but I also fear it’s the first step to banning books on the grounds of “porn” in this state.
edit: I also see this as leading to more websites being banned in Tennessee because it becomes a felony for a minor to see anything the Republicans call “porn.” I think this could be taken so much further into censorship than simply requiring age verification for actual porn sites.
Thoughts?
Republicans and their “small” government
VPN that shit
It they talk about it, everyone at church will know they are dirty freaks and won’t like them anymore.
Typical bible belt fuckery.
I live in Southaven and I definitely find it as an invasion of privacy. It’s not even about kids at this point. Teens nowadays know how to access a VPN. This is just a power move. It’s crazy that they’re worried about what people are wanking it to vs more pressing issues.
People aren’t talking about it because
A) they aren’t being prompted for ID right now
B) they don’t know how bad the implications of the storage rules are