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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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[–] melfie@lemy.lol 5 points 2 days ago

I’m sure they’ll be getting a lot of photos with abnormally long noses and saggy, wrinkled, hairy chins.

[–] taiyang@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Sure enough the vast majority are Republican shithole states, although Virginia and Arizona are a surprise.

It's not that it's immortal to want IDs for porn (although GOP generally is immortal), it's just so... technologically stupid. The red states are stupid states.

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

I understand the sentiment and what they are trying to accomplish. But the reality is this will encourage people to move to pirating content instead.

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[–] desi_touch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Applied for a permit to carry conflicting ideals. Denied for 'causing ideological clutter. 😗

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