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Pornhub goes dark in Arkansas after age verification law kicks in
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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2023
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It's downright hypocritical that MindGeek has been outright supportive of the UK government's efforts to push age verification checks on porn and have even tried to lobby our country to implement AgeID as the solution.
But the moment US states start demanding that they verify user ages, they start geoblocking.
My knowledge on this is very limited and I currently lack sources, but I believe the issue that Mindgeek has is not the implementation of age verification, but instead the fact that all of the work is being put on Mindgeek to implement it instead of the states. I believe they've been fine in the past implementing age verification if the system already exists and they just have to tie into it.
I'm pretty sure their main issue is that they don't want to be the ones doing the age verification. Louisiana set up a state run verification system, and pornhub has continued to operate their site in the state. I don't want porn sites to have my ID info.
Didn't the company also previously claim they were unable to effectively combat child porn?
Classy lot.
No, they claimed they weren't able to let amateurs post and prevent child porn. So they took down an enormous amount of content.