They are testing the grounds with censorship. If their constituents don’t put up a fight for the largest streaming platforms on the web… sets up an easy path when they want to block a different platform for opposing views.
long story short, they’re tryna forbid the internet from providing “lgbtq+ propaganda” by banning certain online content, which extends to erotic material, and pornhub is barring access to anyone using an ip from those states as protest, basically saying “until your governors get that stick outta their ass, you’re not getting ANY of this.”
I imagine all of this is explained to them in the “guilt trip” OP referenced but probably didn’t read.
Otherwise, seems like an ineffective way to protest.
It’s part protest, part practical solution. If I was one of these sites, I wouldn’t want to bother spending money figuring out the best way to verify age when you can just ban everyone from those states and blame the politicians (it is their fault the law exists).
And one good thing it has done is drive at least some of those people to VPNs, which has to make spying on what people are doing a lot more difficult for ISPs and the government.
Just to add: Pornhub supports age verification on device. What they’re against is collective a trove of user data that can (and probably will be) hacked.
It’s the same in South Carolina, although it’s only PornHub as far as I can tell. A bunch of conservative politicians want to either ban it outright or make people upload their ID to view the site so the site is basically shut down in those states until they figure out how to make it work somehow. Apparently boomer politicians think PornHub is the only place anyone views porn
Pornhub is the only one that I know of that is doing the blocks by state. They are a big enough target that the laws could cause them a lot of trouble, and they’ve said they aren’t interested in checking IDs.
The sum total of the laws is that people will either get their porn on sites that don’t care about the various state laws and/or they will learn about using VPNs to get around blocks.
they’ve said they aren’t interested in checking IDs.
Not only checking them, but then they are responsible to safely store that info.
Not necessarily if you’re using an ID verification service from a 3rd party. PH could implement this relatively easily, but I’m glad they’re not.
All of those sites are owned by one company anyway, for the most part.
Wow this is actually happening? The country really seems more and more all the time like we are going to end up two separate nations. The U.S.A. and Gilead.
Also, yeah, these fossils have less than no tech knowledge to think anything can get in the way of porn when someone wants it. What a fucking joke. These are our political representatives hard at work. Probably actually HARD at work. The dumbest sampling of humanity.
With their calculations this means you are now going to go and have 8 kids.
5 of whom will move out of the state at their first opportunity, 2 might stay. And 1 will die before their 21st birthday due to causes that don’t exist much in the developed world, like methanol poisoning or measles.
5 of whom will move out of the state at their first opportunity
4 of them will have to join the armed forces to leave, so to conservatives this will be a win.
