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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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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Someday, we will be using AI to generate fake IDs and faces, simply because our governments refuse to respect our privacy. They will have uncanny resemblance to political critters who enacted the surveillance.

As with everything born of enshittification, I do not know if this is to be a lame joke or reality. 😒

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

We need to keep our voters angry

I have an amazing idea

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I suppose dvd order porn will become a thing once again.

Or alternatively we can start sharing bootleg USBs with our friends.

The Internet had begun its enshitification stage, as governments look to control and lock down access to the internet people will find new and creative ways to bypass these barriers. For one, things like Tor or going back to DVDs and physical media might get more main stream.

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[–] melfie@lemy.lol 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Only websites hosted by landlubbers are bound by such laws.

[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

When I went on vaca a few months ago I was caught off guard with this. Kind of crazy that this is going to be everywhere probably... I will never give them this info, there are always alternatives. I just used VPN that week which worked fine.

[–] kaotic@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day 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.

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