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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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[–] wooffersyt@lemmings.world 5 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

This is good.

It gives smaller porn sites a chance to compete with the big dogs because regulators can't go after all of them.

[–] mobyduck648@lemmy.world 16 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Amusingly, as part of similar laws in the UK the regulator decided to make a public shame list of non-compliant websites.

Essentially if you don’t want to follow the government’s writ that you must send your ID to a shady offshore ID firm, they’ve kindly provided a list of websites that won’t ask for it!

With this on top of trying to claim extraterritorial powers against 4chan in the US (fucking lol), I’m starting to think a key check on tyranny in the UK is the incompetence of its public institutions.

[–] melfie@lemy.lol 3 points 15 hours ago

Always good to have a list of what to avoid so we can all make sure we avoid them.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

Amusingly, as part of similar laws in the UK the regulator decided to make a public shame list of non-compliant websites.

The regulator truly believes they are on the side of good, and that everyone agrees with them, except the nasty pornmongers.