Although I’ve never used one, a VPN was my thought. I didn’t know if it was even kosher to mention it.
I think the rule is (or was) that you can’t describe how to set one up for use. We can talk about the existence of them the same way we can talk about the existence of heroin but not specifically how to acquire it.
ETA: At one time they didn’t want us describe how to get cheaper prescription meds in Canada. I was able to offer to tell people how to do it over PM and helped a couple brothas out IYKWIM.
Really? That’s weird. It’s not like a VPN is actually illegal in the US. I’ve stood up VPN machines for friends before, and my current company sells them.
Thirdly, by leaving Texas. 
VPNs are legal, but using them to get around the law (no matter how stupid) is probably not . I have a VPN on my laptop that allows me to access files from my office server. Nothing nefarious there. Maybe if I was on a trip to Dallas, I could use it to access Pornhub. (I wouldn’t know how to do that, though). Or I could go to another site. I hear the internet provides many porn options.
Well, I get my antihypertensive medications from up north, so yes.
I may be misremembering but I think it was because they were perceived to be mostly used for illegal activities. This was years ago when the Admins were incredibly tech unsavvy.
Incidentally, this is not exactly a hijack.
It’s real simple - open a browser & type W - W - W - . - P - O - R… 
I apologize for keeping this going but the current rules only say that you can’t describe how to use a VPN to use peer-to-peer file sharing to evade copyright law.
Hehehe, so I could tell you how to set up IPsec on a Linux box and I’d be fine. If I then went on to tell you how to pick a VM provider that would give you an IP outside of Texas I’d be on thin ice.
Still weird, but makes more sense.
If you are using your company VPN and laptop, you probably don’t want to use it to view porn, well that depends on the industry you work in I guess.
Like anything to do with the Texas legislature I am very suspicious of the intent and competence in execution of anything they try to enact . Making porn less accessible to younger kids isn’t a bad idea. There are many opinions on that and no doubt many definitions of less accessible and who should be responsible for enforcing such restrictions and choice, and a determined kid will easily get around any for sure.
The Texas law requires people prove they are over 18 with a government ID or ‘other methods’ , the porn industry sued and the law was suspended, until the injunction was overturned and Texas was allowed to implement it while it is under appeal I think . Texas is suing pornhub for breaking the law and pornhub is blocking access to people with IP address that would locate them in Texas.
I am sure the deeply unpleasant Texas AG and the politicians who drafted this law are mostly doing it for votes to show they are doing something about something. I would guess Pornhub doesn’t like the law not so much because of restrictions of free speech and artistic content, but because there will be less clicks and ad revenue. I don’t think people really want to put anything that identifies them into a porn site given the risk of hacks or leaks or paranoia that the AG could get access to the records as part of a case.
Is it a badly written law, almost certainly , are there ways around it, for sure , is it Texas politicians banning porn, nope.
I’ll admit that as a longtime fan of Beavis and Butthead, that did make me chuckle when I typed it out.
I am not disagreeing with you, and your comment is accurate. However, Texas may just be the head of the spear, and if Trump wins in November, and this whole “Project 2025” thing sweeps-into the halls of our government, pornography on the internet may be much more restricted nationwide. Texas may just be a test case where they work-out the kinks. From Project 2025’s forward:
Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.
SOURCE page 5.
You can read the other wonderful stuff this group has in store for us here.
My comment was hypothetical. But, in reality, as one of the owners of the company, I can do what I wish with the laptop.
How is the enforcement supposed to work anyway? ISTR that the Texas law requires some kind of ID verification, which seems extraordinarily sketchy to me for both privacy reasons and for security reasons.
Are the sites expected to keep some kind of database of DL pictures, or is it going to be some kind of state-level database (worse) of people who have applied for verification?
None of it passes any kind of reasonable review, I’d say. I wouldn’t want porn companies with a record of who I am specifically, and nor would I want the State keeping a database of that sort of thing either. Right now, it’s sort of divorced in that credit card processing is separate from the accounts in most cases- there are various token systems to obfuscate card and card-holder information from the accounts. The credit card processing companies would be able to tell that Bob Smith’s card was used for an account at “PH Systems Inc.”, and PornHub would be able to tell that “Kinkybob3323” paid for his account with the CC company successfully, but as I understand it there’s not a good way to tie the two together and identify “Kinkybob3323” with Bob Smith.
But with this legislation, either way I can think of would directly tie all that together, which is way more Big Brothery than I’m remotely comfortable with, regardless of whatever they’re trying to protect.
Speaking of PornHub…My parents never divorced. I have no step sisters. 
You would have a login and password tied to an account. However you verify would be tied to that account. If a minor used your login, you would be liable presumably.
Heh, you could kind of describe my old job as “THE PORN MUST FLOW”. About half of our traffic was for the porn sites that we hosted.
Which does make me wonder how the porn providers in the state are dealing with this gleaming turd of a law. If I didn’t loathe my old job, I’d check what their customers are doing.
I would bet any amount that the legislators who voted for this watch significantly more porn per capita than the ones who voted against it.