Tony BarkDec 2

Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn

https://pawb.social/post/35785468

Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn - Pawb.Social

> 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. Archive: http://archive.today/uZB13 [http://archive.today/uZB13]

Show threadSanctusDec 2
Everyone who ever submits for age verification will have their information stolen. It is a matter of when, not if.
Show threadUnderpantsWeevilDec 2
I mean, a VPN is way cheaper than whatever hoops Idaho wants you to jump through to watch some 10/10 goth hottie get her ass eaten.
Show threadsnekerpimpDec 2
Yea, but soon we’ll have no states to vpn to, and we will have to start using the Quebec servers, then all the websites will be in French and I’ll have to learn a new language.
Show threadUnderpantsWeevil

soon we’ll have no states to vpn to

I’ve yet to see any state legislature take that proposal seriously. Unlike trying to make porn sites take your credit card info in advance (a policy they hated so much gosh darn it!) you’re really fucking with the money when you try and regulate VPNs. Also, just… not really that practical. For the same reason Congress has been pretty toothless when it comes to regulating Torrents and digital encryption, going after VPNs at the regulatory level is something of a technological rabbit hole.

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Show threadBaron Von JDec 2

I’ve yet to see any state legislature take that proposal seriously

snekerpimp meant if every state requires ID, then VPN to another state will not get around the ID check.

Show threadUnderpantsWeevilDec 2

Setting aside the fact that there’s no appetite for these laws in liberal states, its purely a conservative fetish, you can still get porn on the internet without going to the big corporate online clearinghouses.

FFS, there was porn on Napster back in the day.

Show threadBaron Von JDec 2
There’s no appetite for these laws in the voter public of any state, as far as I can tell given how VPN usage skyrockets in every state where these laws are put in place. Is California no longer liberal? Also consider the people running sites in any of the states that have such a law. They may resort to just blanket ID-checking everyone rather than risk prosecution.
California could require age verification to visit porn sites

A California bill that would require porn site visitors to show an ID or verify their age with a credit card or software is moving through the Legislature.

CalMatters
Show threadUnderpantsWeevilDec 2

There’s no appetite for these laws in the voter public of any state

Evangelical right-wing states have a huge contingent of politicians who compete with one another to be the toughest on “child sex trafficking” and other Epstein-tangential topics. So, in the GOP primary, you get a lot of promises about how you’re going to round up all the pedos and put them to the sword or whatever. And this inevitably manifests as “please insert your dick into this pepper grinder to access the pornography” laws, as a sort-of practical compromise.

Is California no longer liberal?

Current Status: Failed (2024-08-15: In committee: Held under submission.)

Looks like they’re retaining their title. That said, if you peak under the “Supporters and Opponents” what you’re going to see in the Supporters section is a litany of right-wing evangelical organizations and a couple of mega-corps.

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Show threadEldritchFemininityDec 3

Evangelical right-wing states have a huge contingent of politicians who compete with one another to be the toughest on “child sex trafficking” and other Epstein-tangential topics. So, in the GOP primary, you get a lot of promises about how you’re going to round up all the pedos and put them to the sword or whatever. And this inevitably manifests as “please insert your dick into this pepper grinder to access the pornography” laws, as a sort-of practical compromise.

I’d say rather than a compromise, the “protect the children!” porn bans are an excuse to go after LGBTQ content by marking any and all content related to them as explicit and demonizing them as pedophiles going after children. They don’t care who it hurts along the way.

Show threadLost_My_MindDec 3
Napster was audio only. Did you mean limewire, or kazaa, or one of the many napster clones that came after?
Show threadUnderpantsWeevilDec 3

Napster was audio only.

It was file type specific and had a soft file side limit, but that’s easy enough to work around.

Did you mean limewire, or kazaa, or one of the many napster clones that came after?

They all had it as well, yes