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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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?
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?
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.
People will just start making their own porn in their bathtubs
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.
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
Time to either quit porn or start downloading. It’s over.
So much for small government…
I just remembered that I’m the guy everyone in my family goes to when they need someone to scan their ID or passport for whatever stupid bullshit.
Guess it’s time to sign all my conservative family members up to gay porn websites!
I don’t get the purpose of this.
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.
Why hasn’t California, become an Island already, like they taught me in school with earthquakes? I’m just waiting for more dispensaries to carry Shrooms because currently lockout of getting any from Canada right now because well, they hate America’s with the tariffs. I have a few local selections they just have more variety.
Land of the free, eh guys?
The most important issue facing the world: Someone might be jerking off in the privacy of their own home.
Porn is just the foot in the door to force ID for connecting to the Internet. This is techno-fascist dystopian police-state shit, and the “don’t tread on me” crowd is just bending over and saying “Please, sir, may I have another? No lube this time!”
Exactly, all the talk about save the children, anti terrorism protection and other authoritarian bullshit is just an attempt to deceive and manipulate the masses.
Police state is what they resort to because these fascist fucks are fuelled by their narcissistic and machiavellianistic desires - the last thing they want is for someone to discover their true tyranny.
It is disappointing to see fascists are slowly succeeding by utilising their manipulative tactics.
You mean there’s actually horny cougars in my neighborhood? Neat!
In other news VPN use in the US is soaring to new heights.
Sorry, MAGA. If you want to stroke it to trans porn, you need to show ID.
