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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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[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 7 points 17 hours ago

MMMERICAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉 🎉

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 21 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

It's only a matter of time before a data leak happens.

That'll be a fun day.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 6 points 22 hours ago

Especially when it's those same politicians that like the porn that they rail against (or illegal porn).

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

if they just need a face scan... whats stopping a million "donald trump"s from appearing?

[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 11 points 20 hours ago

It's probably the FREE STATES OF FREEDOM STATES!

[–] HalfSalesman@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

That's because more than half of the country is some combination of evil and/or retarded.

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 18 hours ago

And the other half use websites that don't care about being legal.

[–] pachrist@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Pornhub

sister sites

Guys, I've cracked it.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago

What are you doing step-bro site?

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Hear me out!

What if parents did their fucking job as they should instead of demanding the state to do it for them, only for it to get hijacked by both

  • christofascists wanting to make it illegal to not live a "christian life",
  • and corporations wanting to ensure competition will need to pay a shitton of money on age verification AI?
[–] expr@programming.dev 17 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Parents aren't doing this. It's purely a move by the elite to tighten the grip of the surveillance state, using the guise of "protecting the children" to absolve themselves of any scrutiny.

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[–] Snowclone@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago

I'm not sure where the data is that shows this, but it's pretty easy to find out the law makers aren't responding to voter demand and they don't care about protecting children, like most laws this isn't about the supposed motivation it's most likely a way to goose up VPN stock value.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 24 points 1 day ago (9 children)

This is going to expand. The next wave is going to be keeping kids off of social media. That means they will have to be age-verified, which they can't do, because they're kids, and don't have ID. Instead, everyone else will have to be age-verified in order to use the Internet.

Here in Florida, I've already heard one state lawmaker scoffing at any objections, saying it's the same way we keep kids from buying alcohol - by checking EVERYONE'S ID. Now they're going to do it for the Internet. Every movement and post you make on the Internet will be directly tied to your verified identity. That should be perfectly fine, as long as you aren't doing or saying anything wrong, right?

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 6 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

it’s the same way we keep kids from buying alcohol - by checking EVERYONE’S ID

Tell him there's a big different between checking an ID and making copies of one

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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 3 points 19 hours ago

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

[–] bbwolf1111@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago

It's not just for porn anymore though. My new phone required it to use certain applications. Facebook requires it to sell on marketplace. As for conversations about it, all of this went to supreme court at least 6 months ago, spoilers, they lost in terms of protecting our privacy. There are days THEY win inside my head & I assume they're recording & adverty within my dreams. you don't even need to be a tin-hat wear crazy to believe things like that anymore.

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 21 points 1 day ago (3 children)

About eight years ago, I moved out of the US to a Third World country but each day it feels less and less like a Third World country.

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Same, but a bit longer for me. I still find it crazy that so many people want to move to the US. It's not the place people dream of.

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[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This may be the real reason r's are losing all of the elections, lol. They are entirely red states.

https://www.axios.com/2025/01/16/adult-website-age-verification-states

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 4 points 23 hours ago

Whaaat, the party of small government is doing this? Impossible.

[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 62 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I'm just over here in "hellscape" California enjoying the freedom to not have to do this, and I can walk down the street to the weed shop, and my girlfriend still has basic human rights over her own body.

Do any other states, like Texas, need some of our freedom? We've got some to spare.

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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (4 children)

People will just start making their own porn in their bathtubs

[–] Lawnman23@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

Or gin. Porn or gin…

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[–] BanaramaClamcrotch@lemmy.zip 29 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So much for small government…

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