2026-07-20 07:04 UTC
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@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social 2026-07-20 07:10
The original site is here, should the US government allow you to visit it: https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-secures-landmark-legal-victory-lock-pornographic-website-domain-and
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@cm@chaos.social 2026-07-20 07:06
@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social That link shows a nginx default page...
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@ellenor2000@mastodon.top 2026-07-20 07:20
@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social Fuck America! #lang_en
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@cm@chaos.social 2026-07-20 07:40
@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social this is actually two issues, I think the important one is selective use of age verification laws. The other is jurisdiction, your TLD registry will be in some jurisdiction, so the question is, how to handle seemingly international TLDs like .com? How to prevent Texas from blocking access to domains that are legal in other US states?
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@steelman@mstdn.io 2026-07-20 08:39
@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social I am not quite convinced this is that bad of a solution (I may be wrong). .COM is an American thing after all, therefore American authorities can control it. Yes this is a problem for the company, but if what they do is legal in NL then they can register .NL domain. A much more powerful and practiced (e.g. in PL to block gambling) solution is "seizing" foreign domains on DNS resolvers. Internet has messed with states' sovereignty for decades, and they're starting to deal with it.
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@leah@blahaj.social 2026-07-20 10:02
@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social and that took them 18 years?
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@rvstaveren@mastodon.online 2026-07-20 10:48
@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social interesting jurisdiction (and bypass), as apparently from what I could make up from the yet still existing registration information is that the disputed (and horrible!) domain was/is registered by an European (.cz) registrar?
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@Stefan_S_from_H@mastodon.social 2026-07-20 12:32
@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social the mentioned porn website has been blocked on Reddit for years now. Maybe not the ideal story to fight against the US influence on domains.
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@samueljohnson@mstdn.social 2026-07-20 13:42
@bert_hubert@eupolicy.social AFAIK motherless isn't simply a porn website. I've never seen it but I have read that it has featured videos of torture and people having their throats cut (taken during the conflict in Bosnia, supposedly)*. I have no objection to that kind of content being taken down and feel it probably ought to be illegal everywhere. A better solution than surveilling the communications of entire populations. *Did the principals think the 1st amendment protected their right to this "speech"?