Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states’ ID requirement would put users’ privacy at risk::Montana and North Carolina are the latest to join the list of states with age verification laws for adult platforms.
Thats is unfortunate for those citizens with no access to a VPN.
I’m in a neighboring state and it’s about 50/50 that my ISP gives me an IP address that geolocates to NC. So right now I’m blocked from the site. I don’t go there often but it’s lame.
It also works the other way. A lot of people in state are going to have IP addresses that appear out of state.
All in all, using IP to establish a physical address is VERY imperfect. Especially if you’re targeting people over cellular networks or networks in larger commercial properties.
I look forward to watching people try to sue porn sites that are actively trying to block access to a state.
This is going to be a shit show. It’s a law passed by people who don’t understand the underlying tech.
Complain to your isp
I can barely get them to provide basically adequate service that doesn’t meet the FCC definition of broadband. They won’t care, lol.
I understand you shouldn’t have to do this but Its insanely easy to use a vpn nowadays. Download and run , paid and unpaid
Fragile conservative white males always shooting themselves in the dicks. The biggest consumers of trans, femboy, and gay porn.
https://medium.com/@AnnaBrianna/the-red-states-watch-the-most-trans-porn-5d432b9f0141
Is it okay to call out race when they’re “white”? You’re racist.
12 down votes so far because I called someone out as racist, who is specifically calling out race for no reason. Why don’t these people respond and try to justify it? Because they can’t.
It’s trendy to hate white people, even nonwhite people acknowledge this these days.
This is basically the answer. It caught on somewhere and the people doing it are too stupid to realize that it’s a matter of economic and political “class” oppression, not “race” oppression. But let’s keep hating white people even though most of them are as helpless and economically destitute as every other race.
It’s amazing how much people don’t want to acknowledge this, as evidenced by the downvotes. A real disconnect from reality.
I’m not trying to defend this law, but I feel like there is a way to do this without invading privacy. Like selling a cryptographic key at stores for a few bucks at a store, which checks your id. IDK? I assume the goal is not actually to keep kids from watching porn but rather to have a chilling effect on it
The question is why. You can’t stop kids from watching it. People get it one way or another. This does nothing than cause mild dips in viewership.
And frankly the kind of stuff on law abiding sites like PH is not doing any noticeable harm anyway. Raising awareness on sexual education if anything.
Most kids begin watching/experimenting around 14. Around 16 is when they should have sex ed and 18 is adulthood anyway. What’s the point?
Not comparable but we are back to the “video games cause violence” nonsense.
Sometimes kids just dont need government protection. This is one of those times.
So pornhub would rather let kids watch porn than comply with age verification laws
I hate to break it to you, but teenagers have been circumnavigating around any law the government throws at them since the beginning of time.
This law is particularly ridiculous and poorly thought out. It is easily bypassed and only has potential downsides. It is ripe for abuse and it’s insane anyone supports this level of privacy intrusion.
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The absolute dumbest of takes.
All anyone has to do is say, “…it’s for the children,” and you just line up, ready to sign away your rights and privacy.
No they’d rather people not have to upload copies of their photo ID to porn sites or participate in a system where such preferences will be easily stored in a government database. It opens the door for privacy violation, extortion, public humiliation, etc for engaging in legal but socially stigmatized behavior in the privacy of their own homes.
were you never a teenager?
Apparently the dumbest one ever
It is not Pornhubs fault that the kids access the net unsupervised.
I’m just not an authoritarian. I don’t like the government spying on us as it is. Why would I volunteer to give up even more privacy? Consider installing cameras in your home and give the government access to them if you want. Totes just to make sure the kids aren’t doing anything wrong. I’ll skip.
Party of small government!
You know they are not doing it for the kids, they want to know if you are gay. By associating people ID to content type they know what YOU watch.
It’s partly but not just that. They want blackmail and they want enforced sexual modesty for all adults. Porn is against their religion and they believe their primary duty is to force others to follow their religion’s rules. And it creating sexually frustrated prudish adults is a plus to them.
What kind of a parent are you if you’re not blocking access to these kinds of sites on the devices of your kids?
It’s so easy.
Get off of Lemmy, moron. You’re bringing down the average IQ of the entire platform.
lol
