Adult website Pornhub blocks users in Utah from accessing the site

Re:Adult website Pornhub blocks users in Utah from accessing... by Barrin92 on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:22PM (#35789967)

>Our government is at least partly reactive to our votes

So is Iran's. Keep in mind the country is a theocratic Republic that turned out this way because of a popular religious revolt against a secular absolutist monarch. That bottom up, democratic, religious zealotry is something you also have in the US but virtually nowhere in the developed world.

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Re:Adult website Pornhub blocks users in Utah from accessing... by haldujai on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:51PM (#35790475)

So you're saying there is no religious zealotry in Europe?

What about the Christian Democratic Union of Germany which officially believes in Catholic Democracy and didn't recognize same-sex marriage until 2017?

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Re:Adult website Pornhub blocks users in Utah from accessing... by abakker on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @01:31PM (#35791193)

Don't know what to tell you, man. The US is drastically more diverse than Iran, and as a result is not nearly as hegemonic. Also, the US is a lot more moderate in its views and policies than Iran. The US political party rhetoric is quite different than a lot of our policies actually are. Sure, much of the political right in the US leans puritanical, but, that leaning is a still more lip service to a small, vocal base than broadly representative of our population.

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