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Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn (www.404media.co)
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As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.

Missouri became the 25th state to enact its own age verification law on Sunday. As it’s done in multiple other states, Pornhub and its network of sister sites—some of the largest adult content platforms in the world—pulled service in Missouri, replacing their homepages with a video of performer Cherie DeVille speaking about the privacy risks and chilling effects of age verification.

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

The problem is that these kinds of laws are becoming widespread. When they become the norm, simply VPN’ing to a different country won’t save you, because there won’t be any “safe” countries.

Shit like this is why I unironically considered spinning up a NSFW Jellyfin instance. At least if I save the degen content like a data hoarder, they can’t legislate away my access.

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago

I disagree. That would encourage more VPN companies to open up abroad. Two hundred countries and many don’t care what others think.

[–] MalMen@masto.pt 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

@mic_check_one_two @fodor move all the internet over tor

[–] kylian0087@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 23 hours ago

Yes I would agree. But one big issue on tor. Do not try and lookup nsfw. In minutes you find shit you absolutely dont want...