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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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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 31 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

I'll end up becoming an artist and drawing my own porn before I give my ID to a website to view it.

[–] Prox@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago

All this actually does is push people to porn sites outside of Missouri's jurisdiction and/or sites that don't give a fuck about being "legitimate businesses" or whatever. It's effectively prohibition and the outcome will be the same.

This shit never actually makes anyone safer, it just draws more normal users to seedier parts of the internet.

[–] MimicJar@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

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[–] baldingpudenda@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago

Can't stop my imagination GoVeRnMeNt! I'll masturbate to all those geriatric fucks.