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submitted 8 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas to object to a state law that requires the company to verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the site.

Texas residents who visit the site are met with a message from the company that criticizes the state’s elected officials who are requiring them to track the age of users.

The company said the newly passed law impinges on “the rights of adults to access protected speech” and fails to pass strict scrutiny by “employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’s stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors.”

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[-] Veneroso@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago

Porn reduces the incident of rape. Combine that with the inability to access abortion. This is going to get worse. If vulnerable people have the ability to leave, they should.

[-] AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago

Sooooo all according to plan then right?

[-] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago

Yes, more naive teens with low social economic status they can coerce into fighting their wars

[-] SturgiesYrFase@lemmy.ml 6 points 8 months ago

Unfortunately, vulnerable people tend not to have the ability to leave.

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

This all sucks, but to be realistic it's probably not going to change anything for anybody. Pornhub is not the only porn site, there are more options than any human being could ever make use of out there, and plenty of sites will not recognize the laws of TX.

What realistically will happen is the porn consumers will go "oh no Pornhub is down, I'll have to go to another site" and within 5 minutes they'll be masturbating with porn from an unblocked site. For all we know, they might even visit lemmynsfw communities, which all do not give a fuck about these laws.

[-] Notorious_handholder@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

You underestimate the lengths people will go, in order to watch that perfect/favorite video that is now blocked. It's why the porn industry makes so much money in the first place

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