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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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[–] pleaseletmein@lemmy.zip 45 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

The most important issue facing the world: Someone might be jerking off in the privacy of their own home.

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 hours ago

You mean there’s actually horny cougars in my neighborhood? Neat!

[–] treesquid@lemmy.world 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Porn is just the foot in the door to force ID for connecting to the Internet. This is techno-fascist dystopian police-state shit, and the "don't tread on me" crowd is just bending over and saying "Please, sir, may I have another? No lube this time!"

[–] sleen@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 hours ago

Exactly, all the talk about save the children, anti terrorism protection and other authoritarian bullshit is just an attempt to deceive and manipulate the masses.

Police state is what they resort to because these fascist fucks are fuelled by their narcissistic and machiavellianistic desires - the last thing they want is for someone to discover their true tyranny.

It is disappointing to see fascists are slowly succeeding by utilising their manipulative tactics.