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Porn Giant xHamster Blocks North Carolina Users Who Support Anti-LGBT Law (usatoday.com)

Posted by BeauHD on from the fight-for-equality dept.

An anonymous reader writes: Due to the state's law preventing cities from banning discrimination against the LGBT community, popular porn site xHamster.com is blocking some North Carolinians' access to its material. xHamster tweeted on Monday that is was "blacking out access for North Carolina" because of newly passed House Bill 2, which also dictates which public restrooms transgender men and women can use. North Carolina users will be asked if they support the anti-LGBT law. If they support it, their IP address will be blocked from the site. "We blacked out the access to our website because we want to draw the attention of millions of people to patterns of human rights violations," xHamster Cheif Marketing Officer, Alexander D. Hawkins said. He added the company plans to stand their ground in the "fight for equality." xHamster may be one of the most recent businesses to publicly oppose North Carolina's House Bill 2, but they're not alone. PayPal canceled plans to open a global operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina and Bruce Springsteen canceled a scheduled show in North Carolina as well.

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  1. two for T by fche · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Does the NC law affect any part of LGBTQXYZ other than T?

    1. Re:two for T by taustin · · Score: 2, Interesting

      There is no true purpose to these sorts of law. They are random turds from people with diarrhea, dribbling down their pantlegs are random times.

    2. Re:two for T by Scroatzilla · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Here's more info on that guy, Paul R. McHugh: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... . Seems that his research frequently nicely supports a religious-right agenda.

  2. Re:In more recent news.... by ffkom · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If only Deutsche Bank was so picky about whom to do business with when it's about VIPs from totalitarian countries, companies evading taxes etc. - but no, they only follow some en vogue PC rules when it's about people's freedom to use either toilet booth. It would be funny if it didn't shed a light on how absolutely insignificant discussions are blown up to create the illusion that "companies care about people's opinion", while they of course do not in the least.

  3. So wait.... it's legal to discriminate? by mark-t · · Score: 4, Interesting

    .... if you are discriminating against those who are discriminating against someone else?

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  4. Re:Ridiculous by harrkev · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The funny thing is that a business is denying service to some customers as their way of saying that denying service to some customers is absolutely the wrong thing to do.

    Logic at its finest.

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  5. Paypal is hypocritical by Attila+Dimedici · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Paypal decided not to open a global operations center in North Carolina because North Carolina has a law saying that a man dressing as a woman still has to use the men's room. But they still have their international headquarters in Singapore where having homosexual sex is a crime?

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