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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This may be the real reason r’s are losing all of the elections, lol. They are entirely red states.
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/16/adult-website-age-verification-states
So much for small government…
In other news VPN use in the US is soaring to new heights.
I don’t get the purpose of this.
It’s a coalition of groups with different purposes
One group wants to ban porn entirely
One group want to collect data on everyone. Your porn habits can be valuable if you’re a future political rival
Some people believe it will prevent children from seeing porn
Others use it as a way to assert control over sex workers, especially female sex workers
Probably a few other smaller groups too. End of the day, none of them have your interests at heart
Some just want money.
I think this article: https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/23/17043978/uk-porn-age-verification-law-mindgeek
Is about pornhub’s parent company trying to lobby in favor of this because it thought it could make money by selling age verification. I read an article saying something to that effect quite some time ago, and I think this is the article, but can’t be sure because it’s requiring a login and the archive site isn’t loading for me at the moment.
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.
Oh yes, please treat on me daddy. I was a bad snek.
Land of the free, eh guys?
Sorry, MAGA. If you want to stroke it to trans porn, you need to show ID.
bless their repressed hearts
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.
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!
But gun control is too hard. smh
There’s only one gun they’re ok controlling. 😏
The most important issue facing the world: Someone might be jerking off in the privacy of their own home.
You mean there’s actually horny cougars in my neighborhood? Neat!
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.
Lo and behold, ladies and gents, the land of the free, where even jerking off is chargeable…
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.
Politicians who think they can ban VPNs are idiots who don’t know what they are or how many are used by businesses and such. It would never fly.
Show them your O face
But I need my porn to make my o face!
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
