LOS ANGELES – In a move they said may become permanent should California’s Proposition 60 pass, several adult websites intentionally reduced the amount of useful traffic they receive. The protest is sure to reduce their revenues while imposing a short-term minor inconvenience on their California-based customers, many of whom likely oppose Prop 60 to begin with.

“If this short-lived, entirely symbolic gesture masquerading as a not-so-harrowing threat to deny service doesn’t convince California voters not to support Prop 60, nothing will,” said Mark Unstabile, a spokesperson for the group FUCK NO On 60, Motherfuckers. “If the measure passes, we’re looking at permanently reducing our own traffic base and revenue generation as a response — because fuck you, that’s why.”

Asked whether adult companies also would stop selling DVDs in California or take measures to ensure no pornography is licensed for future cable and satellite distribution within the state, or close down the major live-streaming operations currently based there, or prevent VOD platforms from selling pay-per-view minutes to customers in California, Unstabile said “we’re not taking anything off the table in terms of potentially making self-defeating decisions as a determined, yet petulant, response to any regulations we don’t like.”

“We’re just doing what any major industry does when faced with undesirable regulations,” Unstabile said. “We’re taking our ball and going home — only ‘home’ is likely to be Amsterdam by this time next year, if California’s voters don’t smarten up and do the right thing in this election.”

Balding, skeletal and famously folksy Democratic strategist Chester “Jim Bob” Cavanaugh said while he “feels the porn industry’s pain,” he’s not sure blocking traffic from California is a good approach to preventing passage of Prop 60.

“Aw shit, all blocking them Californees is gonna do is drive a whole lotta folks to dem thar torrent sites to get their porn fix, or to any of dem roughly 14 billion porn sites that ain’t gonna block traffic from Californee come Hell, high water or even the rebirth of tricky Dick Nixon, I tell you whut,” Cavanaugh said. “Hell, I ain’t even sure most of dem ‘likely voters’ even need all that thar porno at this point any damn way. Back home in Arkansas, I know a lotta good ol’ boys who’ll spank their Confederate flagpoles to damn near anything that shows a nipple or two, up to and including National Geographic.”

Unstabile strongly disagreed with Cavanaugh, countering, “When major adult brands all get on the same page and speak in the same unified voice, California’s porn consumers will listen.

“Porn companies don’t operate in the shadows anymore,” Unstabile said. “These days, the big studios are friends with famous actors like… Shit, what’s his name? You know, the thinner of the two guys who starred in the comedy the North Koreans really didn’t like. Studios these days also often own historic properties, like the old military doohickey in San Fran, ‘The Bay Area Armistice,’ or whatever it was called before it filled up with people doing big piles of cocaine and flogging each other on camera.”

Cavanaugh said he’s skeptical the average voter is even aware of “whatever in Sam Hill kinda nonsense” Unstabile is talking about.

“Dem Californee voters ain’t gonna care some San Francisco porn studio whose’n been dressen young’uns up in dem rubber body suits and beatin the tar out of ’em ain’t accepting traffic no more, ’cause they ain’t wantin’ to look at all that bondage mess to begin with, I tell you whut,” Cavanaugh said. “Even hyar in 2016, a lot of voters ain’t wantin’ to hear ’bout nothin’ pornographic whut goes past a couple coeds flashing their titties at Joe Francis and maybe playin’ a couple melodious tunes on the ol’ skin flute, if ya’ll take my meaning.”

Proponents of Prop 60 said they don’t care whether porn sites block California viewers and don’t believe such actions will sway the vote.

“This is just the latest desperate attempt by the abhorrent, dishonest, criminal porn industry to cling to their usual way of doing things, which is to summarily murder and dismember any performer who refuses to work without condoms,” said John Schwinga, Director of Misleading Communications for the Yes On Prop 60 Unless You Want All God’s Children to Die a Miserable, Painful Death from STDs campaign. “After all, nobody believed the pornographers when they tried to claim Prop 60 would give any citizen of California the ability to sue noncompliant porn producers if the state doesn’t take action — a claim so absurd and patently false, the only other place you’ll find it is within the statutory language of the proposed measure.”