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. And they can’t.
Saying “Pornhub should just, like, break the law, mannnn” 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 be realistic.
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.
Pornhub cannot go around publishing info about specific accounts holders.
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.