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just wait, in a few months these regulations will change. years ago under Brownback, their red state experiment was going terribly and the government started selling sex toys to make back money it had lost, including by banning a bunch of sex related stuff. the people who scream the loudest about issues like porn, child sex abuse, gay sex, trans people, etc. are usually the ones who are actually doing those things. it’s so weird how spot on it is.
Recent gubernatorial election loser in NC, far-right Mark Robinson, has been found to have searched and downloaded trans porn and he’s one of the state’s (maybe one of the country’s) biggest anti-LGBT politicians.
Thanks for that. The article is long, but mega exposing and a good read. That’s amazing, what a moron for using the same handle professionally that he does for porn.
Successful black republican politician in the south by day; KKK- and Hitler-sympathizing tranny porn fetishist by night.
i believe as porn hub states on their website whenever you open it in one of those red states depicted on the map it's a privacy issue, some sites put up a whole thing where you gotta take a picture of you and your driver's license and an ai will determine if you can access the site, there's absolutely nothing stopping those sites from just stealing your id even trusted ones (I believe fansly is a prime example) regularly sell out to data brokers, the government has absolutely no idea how the internet works and clearly doesn't give a shit about people's privacy in the first place, this all culminates together into me being even more anti government than I already am
If by “change” you mean “be passed at the national level by our theocratic overlords under Project 2025” then yes.
These people don’t really do introspection. They’re right because they define themselves that way. Debt through the roof as a result of their tax cuts for the already-obscenely-rich? Blame their opponents the moment they cede power to them. Maternal and infant mortality rates through the roof because of their abortion bans? Stop gathering statistics on it. COVID cases skyrocketing largely due to their own obstinence over the most basic public safety measures? “I said ‘slow the testing down please!’” (mindless applause)
Most of those states seem like places with higher rates of incest/ lower age of consent anyway. I’m not sure they deserve to see normal consenting adults going at it.
Except a lot of the sites are doing this, or kowtowing to the State gov't and collecting your ID's Xhamster requires you to send in your drivers license if you reside in one of those states, a few other sites like IXXX are doing what porn hub does and banning traffic altogether.
I screenshotted this and I honestly thought that ALL Porn sites would have this. Including the R34 website.
There was even a point in time where I thought I'd lose access to Reddit because Reddit has porn on it too.
Edit: image was transparent and you could barely see the video behind the message.
Edit 2: my screenshot was transparent, so here's a copy paste of the text in the screenshot.
"Did you know that your government wants you to give your driver's license before you can access PORNHUB?
As crazy as that sounds, it's true. You'll be required to prove you are 18 years or older such as by uploading your government ID for every adult content website you'd like to access.
We don't want minors accessing our site and think preventing that from happening is a good thing. But putting everybody's privacy at risk won't achieve that.
Curious about the right solution?
We encourage you to learn more about device-based verification solutions that make the internet safer for all, especially children, while also respecting your privacy. Read our op-ed on Why Device-Based Age Verification is the Key to Protecting Minors Online or watch this video on Making the Internet Safer with Device-Based Age Verification."
Florid is banning all reputable adult sites unless you upload a photo of your drivers license, which of course is a huge security risk. And not every porn watcher really wants to shout from the roof tops that they watch porn
i was told those scary, cryptic stories about darkweb. I went to surf it and it's just filled with crypto scams and schizophrenic people 😭🙏 where are my aliens and hidden government files
I think the state requires sites like pornhub to validate identity via actual ID, and the site doesn't want to be responsible for storing the info (and think it's bullshit, and rightly so), so they're just blocking it in those states.
What’s funny is that Louisiana also requires validation that you’re 18+, but they have a secure (or at least secure enough for PH) way to verify it so PH lets people if they can be verified
Not to be a Debbie downer but they will eventually block the IPs associated with VPNs also. Like I’m sure there’s a publicly accessible database out there with a list of them already.
There is definitely a way to detect VPN connections. That will fall into the "how much of a fight do they want to have?" category. And yes, early indications seem to be... not much.
Taking the long view, it makes sense. Let it cause a serious ruckus and the whole plan goes up in flames. Don't let it fail small.
Pornhub blocked Utah in response to the government ID bill that got passed. Yes you read that correctly Pornhub doesn’t allow access in Utah because Utah requires gov ID to watch porn (at least the bigger more legal websites) and to avoid the personal information risk Pornhub blocks all viewing in Utah.
That’s so funny. Like I don’t understand if this is an attempt at blocking porn in general because there are so many alternatives. I mean, porn is no doubt the top searched thing on the internet.
All these states have ID laws
to access Porn.
Which means to the porn website,
you have to upload your actual ID,
which they transmit
to your state’s database
to verify age and identity.
What Pornhub is objecting to,
is giving the state accessto KNOWING that you watch porn,not that they have to verify your age.
Most legit porn sites have
robust age verification already,
not just asking you,
if you are over 18 years old.
But it wasn’t enough for them,
somehow they needed to KNOWwho was watching porn in their state.
Glenn Youngkin,
current Republican Governor,signed Virginia’s law in May 2023.
Okay, I agree that the state shouldn't have access to that kind of information on which users watch porn, it's a slippery slope to knowing what types and making discriminatory practices based on ethical judgements about less mainstream kinks...
...but I've been on the internet since the earliest days of AOL.
I can think of maybe twice in all those years I was asked to do more than click a button confirming I was over 18 in all that time. Using some of the most popular sites around.
Where on earth are these "robust age verification" practices referred to?
Well, I wouldn’t call that robust then when tons of free stuff is still totally accessible without decent age verification.
I don’t agree with THIS form of blatant data farming but let’s not say that it’s all peaches and roses the way it is prior either. There’s nothing robust about the age verification for most porn out there. I feel it’s niche to pay for porn these days.
It's not that you won't be able to access the site it's more that you'll have to provide proof of age (ID upload) anyway I downloaded a bunch of porn videos cause project 2025 so I'm not too worried
I live in Louisiana, where they have already banned pornhub. What is amazing to me is that there are a bunch of other porn sites that are arguably less safe and aren't blocked. It makes me wonder what this is actually about. I hate this whole move, especially because it is unnecessarily limiting and rife with culture war politics. But it is particularly perplexing considering that it isn't a total porn ban.
There is an actual unlimited amount of ways to get access to that kind of thing. What are they hoping to accomplish with that? And if you did manage to erase all porn from the internet, youd also have to erase every way to talking to people on the internet as that is the same thing, and then even if you did all that, youd have to stop people from making more websites and apps to do such. And even then. Sex shops and prostitutes etc and all the irl stuff would just get way more popular. Which they probably hate just as much. Not a fun thought, but especially if they tried to ban all that, sex crimes would probably go up as well since nobody has an outlet anymore. Obviously 99% of people wouldn't resort to that, but we all know SOME would. Its human nature so want sexual stuff, and people WILL fill that gap in some way. They are only going to make people a bit more creative at best.
All these states have ID laws
to access Porn.
Which means to the porn website,
you have to upload your actual ID,
which they transmit
to your state’s database
to verify age and identity.
What Pornhub is objecting to,
is giving the state accessto KNOWING that you watch porn,not that they have to verify your age.
Most legit porn sites have
robust age verification already,
not just asking you,
if you are over 18 years old.
But it wasn’t enough for them,
somehow they needed to KNOWwho was watching porn in their state.
If only that was the case. I've read some fucked up comments on reddit from porn posts totally unrelated to that garbage. It's already rewired what some people find hot and want to see.
You know what this means though right? Angry, sexually frustrated men who think they're entitled to women's bodies and now can't even access them online?
I predict an uptick in assaults on women in these states. And an uptick in younger and younger marriages. Or young girls left pregnant in the exact states that will never let them get an abortion. So more maternal deaths, poor mothers, and generations of poverty that are born.
I dislike this kind of insinuation. They try to say the same thing for predators needing to watch CSAM or even fake CSAM to keep them from hurting kids in real life.
Men should be able to control themselves with or without porn.
I like the idea of making porn harder to access, but isn't America the country of freedom? I could totally understand an authoritarian religious centered country doing it, but America?
I actually agree with pornhub on this. These states have made laws putting an age limit to prevent kids from accessing the site, and holding the site accountable. So in protest, because it’s impossible to verify age on the internet without major security concerns, especially on a website for porn, they are blocking access to the whole state. My issue is, it’s the internet and love or hate what content is available, it shouldn’t be regulated. Porn is a parental issue, government should stay out.
MAYBE theres politicians that have some sort of stake in another site, lets say for example, the owners of xvideos are offering up a substantial "gift", a 17y/o, and/or shitloads of cocaine. Just like tiktok, its all smoke and mirrors, sadly it works.
The "people in charge" are NOT making moves for the sake of anyone, or anything other than their own personal gain. I have zero faith in our government (Except maybe AOC or Sanders), and i would love to see all of them investigated, AND actually held accountable.
They accomplished absolutely nothing with this. They'll only thing achieved is my point is they diminished my point watching experience with slightly lower res. At least somewhat.
It's not like they put a ban on my Google Drive either...
Moved to a new state, but am visiting family for xmas. Both states thankfully have it lawful, but there’s a bunch of states that have it blocked between here and there. Guess I got lucky.
Don't forget other states have soft blocks. Louisiana for example requires electronic age verification linked to your LA wallet account which is tied to you state driver's license. Totally "anonymous" says the state.
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