Comment on Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I don’t get the purpose of this.
It’s a coalition of groups with different purposes
One group wants to ban porn entirely
One group want to collect data on everyone. Your porn habits can be valuable if you’re a future political rival
Some people believe it will prevent children from seeing porn
Others use it as a way to assert control over sex workers, especially female sex workers
Probably a few other smaller groups too. End of the day, none of them have your interests at heart
Some just want money.
I think this article: theverge.com/…/uk-porn-age-verification-law-mindg…
Is about pornhub’s parent company trying to lobby in favor of this because it thought it could make money by selling age verification. I read an article saying something to that effect quite some time ago, and I think this is the article, but can’t be sure because it’s requiring a login and the archive site isn’t loading for me at the moment.
You clearly haven’t thought of the children.
Nah it’s just a precursor to having all your online activity tied directly to your identity. That’s the purpose. I’m sure plenty of misguided elders in government think it’s about saving kids from porn though.
Basically some guy came up with the idea for it, some guy made a case study that it would kneecap the online adult industry even with Article 230 style guarantees, then christofascists saw an opportunity in it to de facto ban porn.
Blackmail material that can be selectively used against political enemies.
It’s part of Project 2025, although there was a complete ban described
RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 day ago
Imagine the consequences of needing to give your ID to watch gay porn as a gay person in a red state.
Rhoeri@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
Oooooh! Shit. Yeah. Wow. It makes total sense now and that fucking sucks.
I hope some day these fascists get branded as the terrorists they are. And I’m so fucking sorry that they’re doing this to people.