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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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[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 18 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (3 children)

Fortunately lawmakers think all internet porn is on PornHub and that you find it by going to w-w-w dot yahoo dot com and typing "sex video" or "naked ladies" in the search thing.

The only porn they have experience with are polaroid photos that they got from a friend who knows a guy who makes tasteful art for clients with "particular tastes."

[–] Peruvian_Skies@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 hours ago

Conservative lawmakers don't know anything about porn, because if they ever recorded themselves fucking and the recording got out, they'd go to jail for statutory rape.

They're generally very comfortable around Grindr though.

[–] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 6 points 16 hours ago

Lawmakers don't watch porn. They prefer to get it straight from the source, right at Little Saint James.

[–] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Don't kid yourself. Anti-porn lawmakers know that there are like 4 big porn sites and if you can shut down access to those ones, it is a huge step towards their goals.