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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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[-] Lexam@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

I question the validity of this article. According to my VPN this is not true.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

since PH is canadian, set your vpn/proxy to another country?

[-] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

This is going to expand. The next wave is going to be keeping kids off of social media. That means they will have to be age-verified, which they can't do, because they're kids, and don't have ID. Instead, everyone else will have to be age-verified in order to use the Internet.

Here in Florida, I've already heard one state lawmaker scoffing at any objections, saying it's the same way we keep kids from buying alcohol - by checking EVERYONE'S ID. Now they're going to do it for the Internet. Every movement and post you make on the Internet will be directly tied to your verified identity. That should be perfectly fine, as long as you aren't doing or saying anything wrong, right?

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Hear me out!

What if parents did their fucking job as they should instead of demanding the state to do it for them, only for it to get hijacked by both

  • christofascists wanting to make it illegal to not live a "christian life",
  • and corporations wanting to ensure competition will need to pay a shitton of money on age verification AI?
[-] ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
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[-] notreallyhere@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

half of states does not equal half of americans

[-] brianpeiris@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 weeks ago

It is 49% of the population. I did the math: https://lemmy.ca/post/56198025/20385158

[-] l_isqof@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Lo and behold, ladies and gents, the land of the free, where even jerking off is chargeable...

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