# Porn giant joins protest against North Carolina **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2016, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-giant-joins-protest-against-north-carolina/751970 "2016-04-12T03:44:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![China\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/779978/32.png) [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-giant-joins-protest-against-north-carolina/751970/21 "2016-04-13T00:55:05Z")
Apple has 5 stores in N Carolina Charlotte, Northlake Mall Charlotte, SouthPark Durham, Southpoint Greensboro, Friendly Center Raleigh, Crabtree Valley Mall Apple will have a lot more Best Buy store-n-a-store locations than that, and any other retailer that they are carried by ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-giant-joins-protest-against-north-carolina/751970/22 "2016-04-13T01:22:32Z")
> [@Machine\_Elf](#): > > Ho, ho ho. He’s into foursomes; who knew? Thanks for fighting ignorance, ummm, I think. Seriously, how is this hurting anyone but the residents who use(d) that website? They weren’t the ones who vote for the bill (okay, probably a few of them were ;)) & it’s not like many residents are going to protest & publicly state that they want the law repealed so that they can get their favorite porn site back. ---
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-giant-joins-protest-against-north-carolina/751970/23 "2016-04-13T01:29:56Z")
“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I porn-surfed, weak and weary, Over many a strange and spurious porn-site of “hot chicks galore”, While I clicked my favorite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, And my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, “Tis not possible,” I muttered, “give me back my free hardcore!” Quote the server, “404.”” [http://bash.org/?120296](http://bash.org/?120296) Well, it is really just a “Your access to xHamster is blacked out in the state" but it does not rhyme. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-giant-joins-protest-against-north-carolina/751970/24 "2016-04-13T03:39:14Z")
> [@Happy\_Lendervedder](#): > > It’s pretty rare. That’s the only website that show those kind of movies that I know of. You laugh, but the industry is surprisingly monopolistic. I read somewhere that eight of the top ten pr0n sites are owned by the same company. XHamster is one of the two that are not. They presumably see their stance on this issue as raising their public profile outside of North Carolina. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-giant-joins-protest-against-north-carolina/751970/25 "2016-04-13T04:32:54Z")
_applauds **GIGObuster** _ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-giant-joins-protest-against-north-carolina/751970/26 "2016-04-13T15:42:02Z")
Hey, I have an idea! Maybe Planned Parenthood could stop performing abortions in North Carolina until the law is changed! THAT’LL teach those damn Christians! ---
**Author:** ![spamforbrains](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@spamforbrains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spamforbrains)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-giant-joins-protest-against-north-carolina/751970/27 "2016-04-13T16:54:39Z")
According to this, porn is very popular among fundamentalist southerns: > **[A state-by-state breakdown of our nation's porn addiction](https://www.dailydot.com/irl/pornhub-data-usage-duration-search-interactive-map/)** > > Kentucky loves hentai, and other facts you'll wish you didn't know about the nation's smut addiction. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-giant-joins-protest-against-north-carolina/751970/28 "2016-04-13T17:49:29Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > Seriously, how is this hurting anyone but the residents who use(d) that website? … It doesn’t necessarily have to be about economic punishment. There’s nothing wrong with a company stating publicly that it has a conscience and actually demonstrating a willingness to suffer financial consequences of its own in order to stay true to its own values. Sort of like how a bakery might choose to not make wedding cakes for homosexuals–they’ll not convince anyone to not be gay, but they’ll be right with their own beliefs. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-giant-joins-protest-against-north-carolina/751970/29 "2016-04-13T19:23:28Z")
> [@spamforbrains](#): > > According to this, porn is very popular among fundamentalist southerns: > > [http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/pornhub-data-usage-duration-search-interactive-map/](http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/pornhub-data-usage-duration-search-interactive-map/) I’ve told this story before … In the pre-internet days I did some IT work for a major national phone sex company. They had lots of different trade styles. Some of which were pretty far out there by the standards of the era. Their customer base skewed very heavily away from the liberal coasts and very heavily towards the conservative Bible Belt. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-giant-joins-protest-against-north-carolina/751970/30 "2016-04-13T22:30:10Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Their customer base skewed very heavily away from the liberal coasts and very heavily towards the conservative Bible Belt. I once did some political work with a retired madam, and we talked a little about her business. She mentioned that a lot was related to big Conventions in town, and the type of Convention affected the amount of business. She said the conservative, fundamentalist ones produced the most customers. Billy Graham events were a bonanza! But she was quite down on the liberal political events : "_too damn many liberal chicks just giving it away!"_ ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [April 16, 2016, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-giant-joins-protest-against-north-carolina/751970/31 "2016-04-16T20:04:29Z")
> [@spamforbrains](#): > > According to this, porn is very popular among fundamentalist southerns: > > [http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/pornhub-data-usage-duration-search-interactive-map/](http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/pornhub-data-usage-duration-search-interactive-map/) No, it proves pornography is popular in the South. There’s no breakdown of what kind of Southerners like pornography, or how religious they are. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/porn-giant-joins-protest-against-north-carolina/751970.md?page=1)