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Sadly this is a feature not a bug for the lawmakers who wrote the laws. They want databases of PII to be breached in order for porn consumers to be publicly named and shamed without the political blowback or getting their hands dirty.

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The first thing that would happen is that the breach would be scoured for politicians names. They’d be just as vulnerable to this kind of blow back.

So for example if you were known to have paid for sex with a porn star, your political career would definitely be over. Right?

Or how it never turns out that politicians who pushed for persecution of gays are gay themselves. Ever.

I suspect that scouring would find approximately 535 congressmen and 200 million americans.

seriously, how much "blow back" could there possibly be to revealing someone has frequented PH?

The question isn't so much does a person look at porn, it's more what porn do they like. If pornhub is storing the personal information, it could be matched to specific videos, which if it's at all fetish-specific could be blackmail material.

I’m sure they are thinking of certain colleagues to expose. That is why they passed the law. The kinds that could be threatened into compliance with rank and file.

And future congressmen too. Jeffrey Epstein was known for playing with this kind of power.

Same with prostitution and Nordic model. Porn is a bad thing, we ban it by prosecuting consumers.

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