An age verification bill in Kansas that is the most extreme in the country has passed both House and Senate and is on its way to the governor’s desk. The bill will make sites with more than 25 percent adult content liable to heavy fines if they don’t verify that visitors are over the age of 18. It also calls being gay “sexual conduct,” which critics say could set up the state for more censorship of LGBT+ citizens.

  • Admiral Patrick
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    Seems pretty easy to work around.

    If a porn site has 10,000 videos, just add 2,501 non porn videos (just use public domain stuff) and make a button to hide those. Scale those numbers up/down as needed.

    Just add a bunch of junk LLM-generated videos to pad out the content so that the number of actual porn videos remains 25% of the total. Then just provide a button to hide those AI-generated junk videos.

    • @SpaceNoodle
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      No, they’d need 30,001 non-porn videos.

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        Are there even that many NON-porn videos on the internet?

          • Pennomi
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            Hell, keep the cat videos and remove the porn. Everybody loves cats.

            • Admiral Patrick
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              Paraphrased from a wise man on an old TV show (Scrubs):

              Dr Cox: If they removed porn from the internet, there would only be one website left: www dot BringBackThePorn dot com

              • @EdibleFriend
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                Everybody but Tim loves cats. And the internet hates Tim.

                • tim-clark
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                  The internet is full of blanket statements, not everyone loves cats. Tim has a love/hate relationship with cats, just like people some are sweet but they are all assholes.

          • BirdEnjoyer
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            What do you mean “But”? Its definitely an “And” scenario. Cat videos are a boon to all involved, right?

            Or am I too ace to understand the syntax

        • Kbin_space_program
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          Time to make and market a package of 30,000 10 frame long 100 pixel x 100 pixel random videos.

      • Admiral Patrick
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        Edibles and math don’t mix for me, lol

        Still, just host 30,001 public domain videos or let some LLM generate videos automatically to keep the ratio in check.

        I’m all about malicious compliance for stupid laws like this.

      • @5too
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        And this is why we need AI-generated content! Gotta pad those numbers!

    • @ChocoboRocket
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      Might want to check your math, 25% is the maximum ‘adult content’ allowed.

      To use your numbers, a business with 10,000 videos would need +7,500 of them being non-porn to be under 25% and not be fined.

    • @[email protected]
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      Any commercial entity that knowingly shares or distributes material that is harmful to minors on a website and such material appears on 25% or more of the webpages viewed on such website in any calendar month

      (emphasis mine)

      They can host as many non-porn videos as they want but it doesn’t matter if people aren’t watching those videos. For every webpage with porn, they’d have to force the user to visit three webpages without porn first.

      • Admiral Patrick
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        Doesn’t say “viewed by humans in any calendar month”, so there’s still a loophole.

      • @[email protected]
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        In other words, you’ll be forced to watch three videos that you don’t want to see, in order to see one that you do.

        Sounds so familiar…

      • @thesporkeffect
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        Doesn’t say how long the view time was. Just set 3 quick page redirects before rendering adult content