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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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[–] Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 249 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Everyone who ever submits for age verification will have their information stolen. It is a matter of when, not if.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 72 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

I mean, a VPN is way cheaper than whatever hoops Idaho wants you to jump through to watch some 10/10 goth hottie get their ass eaten.

[–] snekerpimp@lemmy.world 49 points 9 hours ago (11 children)

Yea, but soon we’ll have no states to vpn to, and we will have to start using the Quebec servers, then all the websites will be in French and I’ll have to learn a new language.

[–] kambusha@sh.itjust.works 29 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Omelette du fromage. Omelette du fromage!

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 12 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I VPN to Montreal servers. Everything is still displayed in English.

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[–] root@lemmy.world 15 points 9 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 (3 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.

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[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 15 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Ironically? If we were a less prudish society this genuinely wouldn't matter.

"Oh no! Sarah likes threesome porn. Uhm... okay?"

[–] ccunning@lemmy.world 30 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I don’t think that’s the main reason folks are concerned about having their government IDs stolen.

[–] bassomitron@lemmy.world 20 points 9 hours ago (5 children)

Yeah, people already browse porn with zero privacy precautions, so linking their fetishes to them would be trivial. The main concern is having yet another privacy vulnerability vector for identity theft.

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[–] khepri@lemmy.world 11 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

yeah I barely can bring myself to give like Fidelity or Charles Schwab photos of my ID, just even having a digital image of my ID on my computer feels wrong lol

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 11 points 7 hours ago

I just went through fun trying to explain to a company that my company is a contractor for why I wouldn't be scanning my passport and emailing it to them.

[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 76 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (2 children)

That will protect the children, for sure.

If I lived in the US, I'd be far more concerned about sending my kids to school but whatever.

[–] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago

Also church. I wouldn't want them to get diddled by a pastor.

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[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 58 points 10 hours ago (5 children)

Keep this shit up and I'll have to go back to having sex with my wife.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 75 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

We'll all have to go back to having sex with your wife

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 19 points 10 hours ago (6 children)

I'll fuck yours, if you fuck mine. That's how that works, right?

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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 41 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

*half of the us requires you to "visit" iceland to watch porn

[–] ripcord@lemmy.world 7 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Still allowed for now. 6 months tops?

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[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 33 points 2 hours ago

Watch them retreat once Grindr states that due to increasing safeguards and transparency, all of their files will be released to the public.

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

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

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[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 27 points 10 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 27 points 6 hours ago

Any site that makes me do this immediately loses my traffic and I go to tor or a service that doesnt give a shit about us law.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 25 points 1 hour ago (3 children)
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[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 23 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

Is there any organized fight against this? I feel like open access to porn is something people can get behind (pun intended).

People could literally put porn in everything until it's reversed and put their red state into porn overload. They could slip porn between the pages of the newspaper,or drop a copy of bad babysitters 5 in every DVD player in best buy at the same time. They could mass mail stills from 2 girls 1 cup, goetse, and blue waffle to their Congress people. They can wear the raunchiest t-shirts they can find and pack a town hall. These assholes already created a climate where woman are (understandably) even more afraid to have sex, now they want to lock down porn too. I'm not a degenerate because I watch porn; I'm a degenerate because I in ironically enjoyed Spongknob Squarenuts. But degenerate or not, I believe freedom of inquiry is important and I want to know exactly what she If you are gonna strip people of their economic output, abuse workers, stifle culture and art, etc, you at least have to give people a blowoff valve somehow. Reading the Bible after a double shift at work isn't gonna get anyone hard except maybe JD Vance and it probably still comes second to furniture warehouse ads.

Fuck these assholes.

[–] Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world 8 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

drop a copy of bad babysitters 5 in every DVD player in best buy

Soooooo, 0 dvd players? Best Buy stopped carrying physical media years ago.

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[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 21 points 10 hours ago

We need to keep our voters angry

I have an amazing idea

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 19 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

I'm waiting for huge spike of trojan-infected computers from people trying to bypass the law by torrenting their porn from unknown sources.

[–] tonytins@pawb.social 12 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I wouldn’t be surprised if they wind up hitting the very people who thought these laws were good in the first place.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 hours ago

Don't forget to bring your copy of Chairman Trump's little thin-blue-line book when you leave the house, patriot! Otherwise the little 'murica-guards will get you!

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 17 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

I suppose dvd order porn will become a thing once again.

Or alternatively we can start sharing bootleg USBs with our friends.

The Internet had begun its enshitification stage, as governments look to control and lock down access to the internet people will find new and creative ways to bypass these barriers. For one, things like Tor or going back to DVDs and physical media might get more main stream.

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[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 16 points 10 hours ago

When I went on vaca a few months ago I was caught off guard with this. Kind of crazy that this is going to be everywhere probably... I will never give them this info, there are always alternatives. I just used VPN that week which worked fine.

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

I'm going back to physical media. Guess that will include my porn soon too.

Hmm, might actually still have some old playboy somewhere 🤔

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[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 13 points 3 hours ago

For anyone curious, the privacy video is in their latest(?) blog post on their site. It should be viewable anywhere as it's outside the NSFW area and before the 18+ notice.

(Just bear in mind that while it should be SFW, it is still under a porn-site's domain.)

https://www.pornhub.com/blog/age-verification-in-the-news

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 11 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

Can I use my O face for verfication?

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Someday, we will be using AI to generate fake IDs and faces, simply because our governments refuse to respect our privacy. They will have uncanny resemblance to political critters who enacted the surveillance.

As with everything born of enshittification, I do not know if this is to be a lame joke or reality. 😒

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 12 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Someday?

People were literally doing that day 1 of the first of these new ID laws. Also using video games that use real likenesses of people like uploading pics of Norman Reedus from Death Stranding 2. lol

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 8 points 8 hours ago

Maybe they think they're requiring verification, but they underestimate the Internet

[–] fodor@lemmy.zip 7 points 3 hours ago (5 children)

Haha not if you use a VPN or international websites or pirate that shit.

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