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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Why does everyone in the US card everyone over something ostensibly about age?
It’s never been about age.
I’ve seen a seventy year old man with a foot long white beard get carded and refused, while he was stone cold sober.
Do you think he can’t handle his liquor? He’s seventy. He knows what it does.
They might have some rule about carding everyone