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Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn (www.404media.co)
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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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[–] root@lemmy.world 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

States are also considering banning VPNs now as well. This will never work and is a horrible idea, but it’s being considered.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 9 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

States are also considering banning VPNs now as well.

Well, some legislators have proposed taking wack-a-mole to the next level and demanding all VPNs be certified and regulated. But good luck getting that passed through the Silicon Valley Presidency or the Ancap Courts.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I would count on them being hypocritical. The rich will just use Starlink.

[–] Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 hours ago

StarLink connections still exit on the ground, sometimes in a different state. You could gain access or get denied pron based on where your ground IP ends up.

[–] pdxfed@lemmy.world 1 points 43 minutes ago

Yeah then Elon can blackmail them instead of someone else