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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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[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Pornhub

sister sites

Guys, I've cracked it.

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[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's because more than half of the country is some combination of evil and/or retarded.

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[–] qyron@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

Try reading it instead. Go old school. And while you're at it, write yourself and share it. Bring back the times of hand to hand banned knowledge sharing.

But now seriously: that is completely stupid.

As anyone considered the amount of money that "industry" generates. Considering the US is so economy driven and concerned with jobs, maybe that argument can raise concerns.

[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can't possibly see how this ends poorly.

[–] 0nt0p0fth3w0rld@feddit.org 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

All the public restrooms and back streets are going to packed with trafficked people.

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[–] kaotic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I understand the sentiment and what they are trying to accomplish. But the reality is this will encourage people to move to pirating content instead.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Sure enough the vast majority are Republican shithole states, although Virginia and Arizona are a surprise.

It's not that it's immortal to want IDs for porn (although GOP generally is immortal), it's just so... technologically stupid. The red states are stupid states.

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