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“potentially biologically addictive” and “proven to harm human brain development.”

These warnings should be required for all social media sites every time you open any webpage or app.

This sounds like it's going to further erode people's trust in the health systems and the advice of doctors.

If you’re a resident of Texas, please be aware that watching porn is bad for you, jacking off will make you blind and that you’re a filthy person for coming here. If you’re from the rest of the world, why are you reading this instead of watching porn?

Masturbation makes hair grow on the palms of your hands - it's science people.

"...is known to the state of Texas to cause..."

I love how republican law makers who want small government and non governmental interference and stop interfering the second it's something they are against.

Really shows their true colors. They don't give a shit about small government, they LOVE government interference. They just don't want you to stop them using slavery, they just don't want you to know about practices in slaughter houses, they just want to be able to pollute every part of the world except where they live and they just want to be able to tell you how to live your life.

Is that so much to ask?

American Taliban

Because I didn't see it written in the comments yet, here is the warning:

"The sites display unproven claims that porn impairs ‘human brain development’ and ‘increases the demand for prostitution, child exploitation, and child pornography.’"

I don't understand how Texas expects to enforce such a law, unless these companies have physical offices in the state.

This reminds me of BANNED IN CHINA!!! The warning label is how you know your porn is extra. Rated XXX+XX!

Shit state gonna shit state. What an embarrassment

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This is the best summary I could come up with:

The move comes after a US appeals court temporarily overturned an order blocking a Texas law that required porn sites to verify users’ ages and display government health warnings.

Though they don’t require age verification, every Vixen Media Group site — which includes Deeper, Blacked, and Vixen — now displays factually debatable disclaimers warning that porn is “potentially biologically addictive” and “proven to harm human brain development.” The warnings appear to users within the state of Texas.

It’s not clear how long the disclaimers have been online, but they appear to be a reaction to Texas’ HB 1181, which was initially scheduled to go into effect on September 1st but has been hotly contested in court.

HB 1181 requires adult sites to display disclaimers and verify users’ ages with government-issued identification.

However, a district judge agreed to block it in late August after a group of adult entertainment activists and companies — which included Pornhub, Brazzers, and the Free Speech Coalition — filed a complaint arguing it was unconstitutional.

The lawsuit criticized the law’s required health warning, calling it a “mix of falsehoods, discredited pseudo-science, and baseless accusations” and “a classic example of the state mandating an orthodox viewpoint on a controversial issue.” District Judge David Alan Ezra agreed, rejecting both the age verification rule and the health disclaimer.

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