Porn Sites Blocked California Users To Protest Proposed Law

geok1ng said:
Out of curiosity, what has Illinois done to make itself a contender?
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1. Talked about passing a road tax. You could either pay, annually, a flat fee or have a device installed on all your vehicles and be charged by the mile.
2. Talked about a commuter tax for people who live outside of Chicago but commute to work to the city of Chicago.
3. Plastic grocery bags banned in Chicago grocery stores but not all stores are complying. Chicago now taxing each plastic bag used .07 cents.
4. Netflix is going to be taxed by Chicago if you are a Chicago resident.
5. .30 cents tax for each cigar bought in Cook County.
6. Taxing soda pop at regular sales tax rate 10.xx% because it contains sugar. Food tax rate is 2.25%.
7. Liquor taxed by alcohol content up to 50%. Yep, 50% of the price of the liquor could be tax.
8. Ridiculous guns laws. One for example. If you are visiting the state and want to buy a firearm and it is legal for you to buy a firearm where your residence is, you can handle the firearm at the store. If you are a resident of Illinois and do not have a Firearms Owners ID card (that you have to apply for from the IL state police), you cannot handle a firearm in the store. You can look but cannot touch. Someone out of state doesn't have this restriction.
9. Almost forgot the cigarette tax in Chicago. 50%. A pack of cigarettes in Chicago-land is 8.00. Half of that is tax.
10. I believe if you stay in a hotel in Chicago, 35% of the room rate is "entertainment tax".
11. Fines. You miss your renewal on your Chicago city sticker for your vehicle(s), you pay double. City sticker for a car is 80.00 for one year so you would have to 160.00 if you're late. If you get fined because the weeds and grass are too tall in your yard and you ignore the demand for payment, each month you ignore it, they double the fine. Don't want to pay? They'll put a lien on your house.



Hope this satisfies your curiosity.
 
Wiffle said:
As if they follow the laws anyways. The vast majority of all porn is produced in California... and I can assure you the vast majority of it is in no way legally produced in accordance to local county, state, or federal laws. Pretty sure Los Angeles county already has the condom law in effect, yet it doesn't stop them. I know for a fact you are supposed to pay a license fee to film anything with a production value within the county limits of Los Angeles, yet the porn producers don't pay... that's why most of the smut is shot in hotel rooms, or a Condo owned by the producer(s) themselves. Watch a few videos and you will quickly notice its the same venue repeated. Some of the foreign producers bring in under age females as well from foreign countries, X-Art and Malibu media is notorious for this, not to mention they will try and blackmail you because of it.

Haven't read the details on the proposition, but I am willing to bet the #1 endorser is a condom manufacturer. It's not the only screwed up proposition either. I think its Prop 61 where prescription drug prices in California are determined by how much the VA pays for them... yet the VA is exempt since they determine their own price. So the end result is, if the VA price is higher, then everyone in California pays the VA price and the drug manufacturers win.

This isn't just happening in California either, when you have a population of 50 million or more you tend to get more people screaming and vying for media attention, so CA bullshit tends to wind up on the news more often. Read those propositions and laws everyone wants you to vote on. Read the fine print and think really really hard. If you don't understand it, then just vote no.
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So all that stuff on Youporn coming from Russia, Japan, Germany and the Philippines don't count?
 
It's a dumb proposed law.

It's just using the usual increased business regulation to stifle free speech.

In this day and age, you'd be surprised how many people still want to ban porn, alcohol, gambling, etc.
 
umeng2002 said:
It's a dumb proposed law.

It's just using the usual increased business regulation to stifle free speech.

In this day and age, you'd be surprised how many people still want to ban porn, alcohol, gambling, etc.
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Given all the people bitching about the "negative effects of porn" and "porn being a health hazard" these days I wouldn't be all the surprised. I mean even Pamela Anderson spoke out against online porn recently.
 
Not sure how this would pass legal muster.

Cornell Law School

Standing, or locus standi, is capacity of a party to bring suit in court. State laws define standing. At the heart of these statutes is the requirement that plaintiffs have sustained or will sustain direct injury or harm and that this harm is redressable
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What injury does a busybody suffer if a scene of a porno is shot without the use of condoms?

Maybe this is just California trying to regain the "stupidest government" lead from NY, where NYC tried to ban "sugary drinks" over 16 oz.
 
thesmokingman said:
What? So they have to use rubbers or ppl could sue? How much free time did whomever have to come up with this nonsense?
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In all likelihood, if the Prop passes, the studios would pack up and move to Las Vegas. It's basically a NIMBY prop from people who don't want it done here. They know it won't really change much of anything about porn aside from where the major "hub" of studios is.

It's a stupid law because it won't actually change anything for the better. It only has negative consequences. It's less revenue for the state because businesses will leave, it won't actually change the end result in the movies, since the studios will just work around it by re-locating, so it's pointless.
 
DeathFromBelow said:
Wut?

One or a few site owners setting up their sites to block certain locations is trivially easy. Trying to block all the porn on the internet? Not happening.
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i think people are sometimes stupid.
if they can do some, they also can do all.
 
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