As far as public relations go, the states of North Carolina and Mississippi have had a very tough time lately. The Republican controlled legislatures of both states have recently passed bills openly discriminating against those in the LGBT community. Last week, Mississippi’s governor approved HB 1523, a so-called “religious freedom” law that allows Christian run businesses to refuse services to anyone who doesn’t kowtow to their arcane beliefs. North Carolina has also been up to some hateful shenanigans, passing HB2, which insists that transgender people may only use public bathrooms which correspond to the gender they were assigned at birth.
Various companies have expressed outrage at these new laws and have been speaking out against them, or even refusing to do business with the states entirely. However, one company in particular is hitting North Carolinians where it hurts: BY TAKING AWAY THEIR PORN.
According to Huffington Post, since Monday night porn site XHamster.com has blocked their site from everyone in North Carolina. And according to xHamster’s spokesperson, it will stay that way until the state’s government repeals the law:
We have spent the last 50 years fighting for equality for everyone and these laws are discriminatory which XHamster.com does not tolerate,” he said in an official statement sent to The Huffington Post. “Judging by the stats of what you North Carolinians watch, we feel this punishment is a severe one. We will not standby and pump revenue into a system that promotes this type of garbage. We respect all sexualities and embrace them.”
XHamster also notes that, according to their statistics, North Carolinians are perhaps more open minded about various sexualities than their representatives may think:
“Back in March, we had 400,000 hits for the term ‘Transsexual’ from North Carolina alone,” he said. “People from that state searched ‘Gay’ 319,907 times,” he added.
