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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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[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 61 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

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[–] FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world 87 points 3 days ago (20 children)

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

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[–] QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Time to either quit porn or start downloading. It's over.

[–] Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 day ago

Or just VPN, I assume that's what most people are doing in those states.

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[–] tym@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

ITT: People who don't realize the advanced nature of fingerprinting that makes VPNs nearly useless in an authoritarian environment

https://www.browserleaks.com/

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[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 40 points 3 days ago (12 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.

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[–] bigFab@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Children browsing the ugliest part of the dark web in 3... 2... 1...

[–] bold_atlas@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

Fortunately lawmakers think all internet porn is on PornHub and that you find it by going to w-w-w dot yahoo dot com and typing "sex video" or "naked ladies" in the search thing.

The only porn they have experience with are polaroid photos that they got from a friend who knows a guy who makes tasteful art for clients with "particular tastes."

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[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (4 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.

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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 17 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

If this doesnt make people stop using those sites, nothing will. :)

And yeah, like others have said, its of course a system that will be used to control people and remove semi-anonymity from the web.

[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 33 points 3 days 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.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

You can still hold up a picture of Norman Reedus to bypass age checks right?

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