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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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[–] Rhoeri@lemmy.world 13 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I don’t get the purpose of this.

[–] Taldan@lemmy.world 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

It's a coalition of groups with different purposes

One group wants to ban porn entirely

One group want to collect data on everyone. Your porn habits can be valuable if you're a future political rival

Some people believe it will prevent children from seeing porn

Others use it as a way to assert control over sex workers, especially female sex workers

Probably a few other smaller groups too. End of the day, none of them have your interests at heart

[–] evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 1 points 26 minutes ago

Some just want money.

I think this article: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/23/17043978/uk-porn-age-verification-law-mindgeek

Is about pornhub’s parent company trying to lobby in favor of this because it thought it could make money by selling age verification. I read an article saying something to that effect quite some time ago, and I think this is the article, but can’t be sure because it’s requiring a login and the archive site isn’t loading for me at the moment.

[–] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 19 points 6 hours ago

Imagine the consequences of needing to give your ID to watch gay porn as a gay person in a red state.

[–] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 5 hours ago

You clearly haven't thought of the children.

Nah it's just a precursor to having all your online activity tied directly to your identity. That's the purpose. I'm sure plenty of misguided elders in government think it's about saving kids from porn though.