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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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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (7 children)

soon we’ll have no states to vpn to

I've yet to see any state legislature take that proposal seriously. Unlike trying to make porn sites take your credit card info in advance (a policy they hated so much gosh darn it!) you're really fucking with the money when you try and regulate VPNs. Also, just... not really that practical. For the same reason Congress has been pretty toothless when it comes to regulating Torrents and digital encryption, going after VPNs at the regulatory level is something of a technological rabbit hole.

then all the websites will be in French

Nothing will ever make anyone on the internet learn a language other than English.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I’ve yet to see any state legislature take that proposal seriously

snekerpimp meant if every state requires ID, then VPN to another state will not get around the ID check.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Setting aside the fact that there's no appetite for these laws in liberal states because its purely a conservative fetish, you can still get porn on the internet without going to the big corporate online clearinghouses.

FFS, there was porn on Napster back in the day.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Napster was audio only. Did you mean limewire, or kazaa, or one of the many napster clones that came after?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Napster was audio only.

It was file type specific and had a soft file side limit, but that's easy enough to work around.

Did you mean limewire, or kazaa, or one of the many napster clones that came after?

They all had it as well, yes

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