- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- news@lemmy.world
At the dawn of the new year, Pornhub will leave Florida. Thanks to a harsh new age verification law that takes effect on January 1, the porn giant will no longer do business in the sunshine state. The law mirrors similar laws passed in other Republican led states where Pornhub has stopped doing business.
There will now be over 115 million Americans affected by this growing ban. Now over one third of the population, yes a full 34.4%, will not be able to access pornhub in their state without using a VPN. And we all know they are coming for the VPN next.
“Land of the free”
They should really look at changing their national anthem.
I don’t know how a nation with such a well known history of slavery got away with calling itself the “land of the free”.
If you were a white male who owned property. America was pretty free for you, everyone else can got fucked.
Wives and children are property right?
The real issue is that most people dont know how to use vpns. So they just go to sketchier websites.
And more importantly, these laws are written so broadly that these age verification laws can be applied to any website that the state government doesn’t like whether they host porn or not. CNN posts article about killings in Gaza? That’s not appropriate for children so ID needed. Left-wing forum that’s critical of the local Republican government? Well that’s not appropriate for children either so we’ll need to see the IDs of everyone that has ever visited the site.
I hope these laws get overturned sooner than later but I won’t hold my breath.
The only killings in Gaza CNN would post about is IDF and hostage deaths.
I literally thought the same thing while writing it, but still wanted to use a mainstream source as an example.
They’re welcome to try, but I seriously doubt they will be successful
Yeah just about every company uses VPNs too.
Slippery slope is nonsense. We dont allow a bunch of other things for children, its not any different because the company would rather stop selling altogether then to adjust for regulations.
A lot of people here are acting like free access to any type of pornography is a net benefit for society as well, which I find strange.
It’s a privacy issue, not an age verification issue.