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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So much for small government…
I don’t get the purpose of this.
Imagine the consequences of needing to give your ID to watch gay porn as a gay person in a red state.
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.
Land of the free, eh guys?
bless their repressed hearts
Sorry, MAGA. If you want to stroke it to trans porn, you need to show ID.
But gun control is too hard. smh
There’s only one gun they’re ok controlling. 😏
I’m just over here in “hellscape” California enjoying the freedom to not have to do this, and I can walk down the street to the weed shop, and my girlfriend still has basic human rights over her own body.
Do any other states, like Texas, need some of our freedom? We’ve got some to spare.
I think California recently passed the Digital Age Assurance Act, which was backed by Google,Meta, and OpenAI. I think it goes into effect in 2027.
That’s not the freedom these people want. They want their own freedoms that don’t include those things and the freedom to stop other people having freedom. (Old testament Christian-only the bits I like) God bless America!
The most important issue facing the world: Someone might be jerking off in the privacy of their own home.
Porn is just the foot in the door to force ID for connecting to the Internet. This is techno-fascist dystopian police-state shit, and the “don’t tread on me” crowd is just bending over and saying “Please, sir, may I have another? No lube this time!”
Exactly, all the talk about save the children, anti terrorism protection and other authoritarian bullshit is just an attempt to deceive and manipulate the masses.
Police state is what they resort to because these fascist fucks are fuelled by their narcissistic and machiavellianistic desires - the last thing they want is for someone to discover their true tyranny.
It is disappointing to see fascists are slowly succeeding by utilising their manipulative tactics.
Show them your O face
But I need my porn to make my o face!
Here come more spikes in VPN usage.
Porn torrents on i2p work. But i2p is too slow for streaming.
With the rising popularity of VPNs due to increasingly more countries becoming more authoritarian, I wouldn’t be supposed there will be some anti-vpn directives put in place.
In addition to that, increasingly more selections within vpn profiles will be just as restrictive as the fascist internet at home.
VPNs are a great way to circumvent this police state but it ultimately doesn’t stop fascists and their motives.
Lo and behold, ladies and gents, the land of the free, where even jerking off is chargeable…
This is the future you all dreamed of.
Not downplaying that this is real dumb, but “half the US” is meant to be misleadingly attention-grabbing. The states that are doing this are not the most populous states. No law like this exists in NY or CA, for example.
I don’t know the amount of the population living under these laws, but it is not nearly half, even if half the states have passed such laws.
I did the math and it’s 49.37% of the population, based on the 2024 census data, or 49.94% if you exclude Puerto Rico and D.C. I suppose mostly due to Texas and Florida being in the list, but also Ohio, Georgia and North Carolina with over 10M people each.
Here's the raw data
Based on the table from Wikipedia, and the list of states in the article.
State Population (2024) Requires Age Verification Population Requiring Age Verification California 39,431,263 0 Texas 31,290,831 x 31,290,831 Florida 23,372,215 x 23,372,215 New York 19,867,248 0 Pennsylvania 13,078,751 0 Illinois 12,710,158 0 Ohio 11,883,304 x 11,883,304 Georgia 11,180,878 x 11,180,878 North Carolina 11,046,024 x 11,046,024 Michigan 10,140,459 0 New Jersey 9,500,851 0 Virginia 8,868,896 x 8,868,896 Washington 7,958,180 0 Arizona 7,582,384 x 7,582,384 Tennessee 7,227,750 x 7,227,750 Massachusetts 7,136,171 0 Indiana 6,924,275 x 6,924,275 Maryland 6,263,220 0 Missouri 6,245,466 x 6,245,466 Wisconsin 5,960,975 0 Colorado 5,957,493 0 Minnesota 5,793,151 0 South Carolina 5,478,831 x 5,478,831 Alabama 5,157,699 x 5,157,699 Louisiana 4,597,740 x 4,597,740 Kentucky 4,588,372 x 4,588,372 Oregon 4,272,371 0 Oklahoma 4,095,393 x 4,095,393 Connecticut 3,675,069 0 Utah 3,503,613 x 3,503,613 Nevada 3,267,467 0 Iowa 3,241,488 0 Puerto Rico 3,203,295 0 Arkansas 3,088,354 x 3,088,354 Kansas 2,970,606 x 2,970,606 Mississippi 2,943,045 x 2,943,045 New Mexico 2,130,256 0 Nebraska 2,005,465 x 2,005,465 Idaho 2,001,619 x 2,001,619 West Virginia 1,712,278 0 Hawaii 1,446,146 0 New Hampshire 1,409,032 0 Maine 1,405,012 0 Montana 1,137,233 x 1,137,233 Rhode Island 1,112,308 0 Delaware 1,051,917 0 South Dakota 924,669 x 924,669 North Dakota 796,568 x 796,568 Alaska 740,133 0 District of Columbia 702,250 0 Vermont 648,493 0 Wyoming 587,618 x 587,618 343,314,283 169,498,848 49.37% Ok, that is much closer to half (or, let’s just say effectively half) than I thought. I’ll go eat some crow.
It was a reasonable assumption, but the distribution didn’t pan out that way.
I apologize in advance for how pedantic this comment will be but “half the US now requires” obviously refers to half the administrative units (states in this case, could be counties or municipalites etc) while “half the US is required” would refer to the population, so technically the post title is not wrong because of the population distribution.
I’m going to wash my hands now so that my fingers forget they typed this.
That is so technically accurate, I love it.
That’s actually useful pedantism.
Thank you!
I don’t know the amount of the population living under these laws
And yet you felt the need to comment on it anyway.
half of states does not equal half of americans
It is 49% of the population. I did the math: https://lemmy.ca/post/56198025/20385158
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