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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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[–] njordomir@lemmy.world 38 points 2 days ago (6 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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[–] 1984@lemmy.today 17 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 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.

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

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[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 30 points 2 days 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 20 points 2 days 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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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 11 points 2 days ago

But in other news, VPNs are now really popular for some reason.

[–] Jinarched@lemmy.ca -1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] Chippys_mittens@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I can't possibly see how this ends poorly.

[–] 0nt0p0fth3w0rld@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

All the public restrooms and back streets are going to packed with trafficked people.

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[–] LOLseas@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago

NoFx - "Vanilla Sex" hits hard after all these years

[–] biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

And on the flip side, occasional SEO fuckups cause random terms to show porn image results

For example, I was searching for millimetre wave cell towers on duckduckgo a while back, I typed "MM wave cell tower" and saw a whole bunch of massive tiddies on the standard filtering setting. They fixed this a week after me discovering it however, so if you were hoping to see tits from searching telco infrastructure, I suppose you're outa luck.

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[–] shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 32 points 2 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.

[–] percent 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

🤔 I'm not sure that lawmakers really understand what they're up against. If most VPN locations all eventually require government ID for porn, then some people will likely seek porn from places/networks that are... Less legitimate.

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[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 days ago

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