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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)

submitted 3 days ago by tonytins@pawb.social to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] notreallyhere@lemmy.world 32 points 2 days ago (2 children)

half of states does not equal half of americans

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[–] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sorry, MAGA. If you want to stroke it to trans porn, you need to show ID.

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[–] l_isqof@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Lo and behold, ladies and gents, the land of the free, where even jerking off is chargeable...

[–] chunes@lemmy.world 68 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Never thought I would live to see this day. Utterly pathetic. I remember even 20 years ago online censorship was extremely taboo.

Making it easy for normies to get online was a massive blunder.

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[–] buddascrayon@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

In other news VPN use in the US is soaring to new heights.

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[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 137 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 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.

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[–] MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Here come more spikes in VPN usage.

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[–] unphazed@lemmy.world 57 points 3 days ago

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

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 56 points 3 days ago (5 children)

The death of freedoms by the day.

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

bless their repressed hearts

[–] YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Oh yes, please treat on me daddy. I was a bad snek.

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