ErosBlog Bacchus
@ErosBlog@kinkyelephant.com  ·  activity timestamp last week

Gentle reminder that your content warnings don't need to use the #NSFW tag in particular: you can use specific #Adult tags that specify what kind of #Porn (or whatever) is in your post.

I happen to have a 20-year-old grudge against the NSFW tag specifically, and don't use it. Because WHY are we measuring our social media lives against the standards of capitalist workplaces? As I wrote in 2003, if your work isn't safe for adult stuff, consider getting some better work!

https://www.erosblog.com/2006/03/21/your-work-is-not-safe-for-sex-or-boobies/
ErosBlog Bacchus
@ErosBlog@kinkyelephant.com  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Thanks to the various people who have been poking me about the #pornocalypse news on Steam (July 15) and itch.io (today). Pornocalypse has been an ErosBlog reporting beat since 2013 but I'm tired and broke; not claiming this post adds much to the narrative, just nails it into my dozen-year timeline of reports, for the record:

https://www.erosblog.com/2025/07/24/pornocalypse-comes-for-steam-and-itch/

#Pornocalypse#Steam#Itchio #games #gaming #porn#AdultGames #game#PornGames#XxxGames#XXX#AdultGames#Incest#NSFW
ErosBlog Bacchus
@ErosBlog@kinkyelephant.com  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

Thanks to the various people who have been poking me about the #pornocalypse news on Steam (July 15) and itch.io (today). Pornocalypse has been an ErosBlog reporting beat since 2013 but I'm tired and broke; not claiming this post adds much to the narrative, just nails it into my dozen-year timeline of reports, for the record:

https://www.erosblog.com/2025/07/24/pornocalypse-comes-for-steam-and-itch/

#Pornocalypse#Steam#Itchio #games #gaming #porn#AdultGames #game#PornGames#XxxGames#XXX#AdultGames#Incest#NSFW
F. Maury ⏚
@x_cli@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Pornhub is making bullshit claims regarding the privacy issues of the French gov age verification requirements. There are very real and significant problems with the French gov approach, but Pornhub's approach is significantly worse.

Pornhub wants to put the burden of age verification and enforcement on user devices. They even name the actors that should have to bear that burden: Google, Apple and Microsoft.

First off, this creates an artificial monopoly: three American companies being the judge on who can watch what. Worldwide. I can't wait to have Trump's administration (or whatever jackass the American elect) censoring everything I watch.

Also, Linux users are prayed to go fuck themselves instead of watching porn. Get the real stuff, Linux users (lol).

There is also the issue of the age verification procedure: how do you verify the user's age? Biometrics is the obvious answer on mobile phone, but would there be alternatives? Probably not.

Too bad for people whose face does not match the AI training. Too bad for people not wanting their biometrics verified/leaked to a provider of the operating system vendor choosing.
If you are using a workstation, please get a webcam if you want to jerk off.

But let's say that you passed the age verification procedure: how do you transfer that knowledge to the website?

A HTTP header could be faked so this is not an option.

A remote assessment using a TPM (a chip on your device that monitors that your system wasn't altered) ? => You can no longer install an alternate operating system and watch porn. Once again an artificial monopoly.

DRM would be probably the preferred solution: let anyone download the porn file, but only display it on devices with the appropriate DRM reader if the age verification test is passed. Once again an artificial monopoly. And this puts an end to piracy in the process. Nobody would ever think about abusing this for other content, right Google WEI?

Once again, the French gov tech and requirements are bullshit. I am not here to defend them, but Pornhub statement is just full of shit.

#porn #pornhub #censorship #infosec #france
Paul Chambers🚧
@paul@oldfriends.live  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

tl;dr: Porn will get harder to watch in Ohio soon as advanced photo ID type verification will be required starting September 29, 2025 ~Attorney General Dave Yost is already getting a hard-on thinking about enforcing it. Will require "location-based tech provider" to "dynamically monitor" a user attempting to access a website.

Ohioans will need to submit their photo ID to watch pornography beginning this fall, with explicit content giant #PornHub likely to consider pulling out of providing content to the state. #Ohio#Porn#AgeVerification#Privacy

To crack down on kids and teens accessing porn, state Reps. Josh Williams (R-Sylvania) and Steve Demetriou (R-Bainbridge Twp.) put a provision in the budget, requiring every porn watcher to provide age verification. #USPol

Verification would be done by submitting a photo of your state ID or by entering your personal information into a third-party system that will then run your details through other online or government databases — it could also use facial recognition technology, capturing photos of users. Companies would be penalized if they don't comply.

The law starts on page 655 of House Bill 96. pdfhttps://search-prod.lis.state.oh.us/api/v2/general_assembly_136/legislation/hb96/07_EN/pdf/https://www.legislature.ohio.gov/legislation/136/hb96
wcpohttps://www.wcpo.com/news/state/state-ohio/porn-will-get-harder-to-watch-in-ohio-soon

(a) A commercial establishment that, for any form of consideration, has as a significant or substantial portion of its stock-in-trade in, derives a significant or substantial portion of its revenues from, devotes a significant or substantial portion of its content or advertising to, or maintains a substantial section of its sales or online content display space for the sale, rental, or viewing of materials that are obscene or harmful to juveniles; (b) A commercial establishment as defined in section 2907.38 of the Revised Code. An establishment may have other principal business purposes that do not involve selling, delivering, furnishing, disseminating, providing, exhibiting, or presenting any material or performance that is obscene or harmful to juveniles on the internet and still be categorized as an organization subject to this section. The existence of other principal business purposes does not
(a) A commercial establishment that, for any form of consideration, has as a significant or substantial portion of its stock-in-trade in, derives a significant or substantial portion of its revenues from, devotes a significant or substantial portion of its content or advertising to, or maintains a substantial section of its sales or online content display space for the sale, rental, or viewing of materials that are obscene or harmful to juveniles; (b) A commercial establishment as defined in section 2907.38 of the Revised Code. An establishment may have other principal business purposes that do not involve selling, delivering, furnishing, disseminating, providing, exhibiting, or presenting any material or performance that is obscene or harmful to juveniles on the internet and still be categorized as an organization subject to this section. The existence of other principal business purposes does not
(a) A commercial establishment that, for any form of consideration, has as a significant or substantial portion of its stock-in-trade in, derives a significant or substantial portion of its revenues from, devotes a significant or substantial portion of its content or advertising to, or maintains a substantial section of its sales or online content display space for the sale, rental, or viewing of materials that are obscene or harmful to juveniles; (b) A commercial establishment as defined in section 2907.38 of the Revised Code. An establishment may have other principal business purposes that do not involve selling, delivering, furnishing, disseminating, providing, exhibiting, or presenting any material or performance that is obscene or harmful to juveniles on the internet and still be categorized as an organization subject to this section. The existence of other principal business purposes does not
F. Maury ⏚
@x_cli@infosec.exchange  ·  activity timestamp 2 months ago

Pornhub is making bullshit claims regarding the privacy issues of the French gov age verification requirements. There are very real and significant problems with the French gov approach, but Pornhub's approach is significantly worse.

Pornhub wants to put the burden of age verification and enforcement on user devices. They even name the actors that should have to bear that burden: Google, Apple and Microsoft.

First off, this creates an artificial monopoly: three American companies being the judge on who can watch what. Worldwide. I can't wait to have Trump's administration (or whatever jackass the American elect) censoring everything I watch.

Also, Linux users are prayed to go fuck themselves instead of watching porn. Get the real stuff, Linux users (lol).

There is also the issue of the age verification procedure: how do you verify the user's age? Biometrics is the obvious answer on mobile phone, but would there be alternatives? Probably not.

Too bad for people whose face does not match the AI training. Too bad for people not wanting their biometrics verified/leaked to a provider of the operating system vendor choosing.
If you are using a workstation, please get a webcam if you want to jerk off.

But let's say that you passed the age verification procedure: how do you transfer that knowledge to the website?

A HTTP header could be faked so this is not an option.

A remote assessment using a TPM (a chip on your device that monitors that your system wasn't altered) ? => You can no longer install an alternate operating system and watch porn. Once again an artificial monopoly.

DRM would be probably the preferred solution: let anyone download the porn file, but only display it on devices with the appropriate DRM reader if the age verification test is passed. Once again an artificial monopoly. And this puts an end to piracy in the process. Nobody would ever think about abusing this for other content, right Google WEI?

Once again, the French gov tech and requirements are bullshit. I am not here to defend them, but Pornhub statement is just full of shit.

#porn #pornhub #censorship #infosec #france
Strypey
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

"As spotted by Mike Stabile, director of public policy at the Free Speech Coalition, Deevers said in a press release that the bills 'set a course for pushing back against the moral decay foisted upon Oklahoma by the far-left’s march through our institutions to destroy the moral foundations upon which the United States and Christian Civilization had long rested'.”

#SamanthaCole, 2025

https://www.404media.co/oklahoma-senator-dusty-deevers-porn-bill/

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#censorship #porn#MikeStabile#FreeSpeechCoalition