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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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    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?
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      1 hour 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.

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      5 hours ago

      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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        4 hours ago

        They are also trying their best for their states to have white babies. Our country is depopulating and immigrants are the only ones having babies. That’s what all of this is about, just plain old racism.