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

Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨tonytins@pawb.social⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.404media.co/missouri-age-verification-law-porn-id-check-vpns/

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: archive.today/uZB13

source

Comments

Sort:hotnew top

Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
People will just start making their own porn in their bathtubs

source
- deHaga@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Tubgirl reference?
  
  source
  - Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Orange Fanta is so expensive these days
    
    source
- iamdefinitelyoverthirteen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  How exciting!
  
  source
- Lawnman23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Or gin. Porn or gin…
  
  source
YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Oh yes, please treat on me daddy. I was a bad snek.

source
- OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Image
  
  source
objectorientedposter@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
FOLLOW THE 💰:

EXON

RINAT AKHMETSHIN

ALEX VAN DER ZWAAN

KONSTANTIN KILIMNIK

CHUCK SCHUMER

JAMES COMEY

ROTHSCHILD

TRUMP

JARED KUSHNER

GARY COHN

STEVE MNUCHIN

SAM NUNBERG

NELSON BUNKER HUNT

LAMAR HUNT

MICHAEL FLYNN

DAN SCAVINO

ERIK PRINCE

WILBUR ROSS

STEFAN HALPER

GEORGE SOROS

JOHN DURHAM

DANIEL MURPHY

PETER STRZOK

LISA PAGE

BRUCE OHR

NELLIE OHR

CHRISTOPHER STEELE

CHRISTOPHER WRAY

JEFF SESSIONS

JOHN PODESTA

MUELLER

CHRIS WRAY

HUNTER BIDEN

SETH RICH

BILL BARR

KAMALA HARRIS

ADAM SCHIFF

TULSI GABBARD

https://www.palantir.com/offerings/defense/army/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inslaw#Development_of_PROMIS

source
- jjlinux@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You forgot AOC
  
  source
  - MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Are we just naming people now or what?
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
  - objectorientedposter@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    AOC
    
    CLINTON
    
    OBAMA
    
    ZIONISM
    
    MICROSOFT
    
    CLOUDFLARE
    
    GREAT RIFT VALLEY
    
    NETANYAHU
    
    KISSINGER
    
    source
biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
And on the flip side, occasional SEO fuckups cause random terms to show porn image results

For example, I was searching for millimetre wave cell towers on duckduckgo a while back, I typed “MM wave cell tower” and saw a whole bunch of massive tiddies on the standard filtering setting. They fixed this a week after me discovering it however, so if you were hoping to see tits from searching telco infrastructure, I suppose you’re outa luck.

source
- minkymunkey_7_7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Not to mention that half of all subreddits is porn. So easy to access.
  
  source
  - biggerbogboy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Whole lot of unmoderated ones too, so there’s lots of unfiltered porn
    
    source
wooffersyt@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
This is good.

It gives smaller porn sites a chance to compete with the big dogs because regulators can’t go after all of them.

source
- mobyduck648@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Amusingly, as part of similar laws in the UK the regulator decided to make a public shame list of non-compliant websites.
  
  Essentially if you don’t want to follow the government’s writ that you must send your ID to a shady offshore ID firm, they’ve kindly provided a list of websites that won’t ask for it!
  
  With this on top of trying to claim extraterritorial powers against 4chan in the US (fucking lol), I’m starting to think a key check on tyranny in the UK is the incompetence of its public institutions.
  
  source
  - melfie@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Always good to have a list of what to avoid so we can all make sure we avoid them.
    
    source
  - DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    
    Amusingly, as part of similar laws in the UK the regulator decided to make a public shame list of non-compliant websites.
    
    The regulator truly believes they are on the side of good, and that everyone agrees with them, except the nasty pornmongers.
    
    source
pachrist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

Pornhub

sister sites

Guys, I’ve cracked it.

source
- TORFdot0@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  What are you doing step-bro site?
  
  source
Mediocre_Bard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
[deleted]
source
- jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  I will not be responding to comments.
  
  Then fuck off. Like, actually.
  
  source
- fishy@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  As the parent of a 4.5 year old I gotta say, what a stupid fucking take.
  
  source
  - Megamanexent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Glad I’m not the only one who thought that. It’s like justifying censorship because I don’t have the will power to control myself or parent my kids. Wow, that’s like announcing I’m a shit parent. I don’t think censorship will save ANYONE. A DCFS investigation might be more aligned.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
- hark@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  
  CinnamonRingCumGlaze86 will be significantly less able to use their 6th grade reading level to convince people that modern medicine is bad because Pre-Historical Witches didn’t have AIDS bro.
  
  You don’t need accounts tied to ID to ban such content.
  
  source
- Megamanexent@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Maybe advocate for better living standards and wages? Means more time with family. Oh that’s wright, you just want to justify censorship
  
  source
- Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Jesus Fucking Christ.
  
  source
LOLseas@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
NoFx - “Vanilla Sex” hits hard after all these years

source
melfie@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Only websites hosted by land lovers are bound by such laws.

source
taiyang@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Sure enough the vast majority are Republican shithole states, although Virginia and Arizona are a surprise.

It’s not that it’s immortal to want IDs for porn (although GOP generally is immortal), it’s just so… technologically stupid. The red states are stupid states.

source
ssfckdt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Show them you’re O face

source
- bhamlin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  But I need my porn to make my o face!
  
  source
qyron@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Try reading it instead. Go old school. And while you’re at it, write yourself and share it. Bring back the times of hand to hand banned knowledge sharing.

But now seriously: that is completely stupid.

As anyone considered the amount of money that “industry” generates. Considering the US is so economy driven and concerned with jobs, maybe that argument can raise concerns.

source
kaotic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I understand the sentiment and what they are trying to accomplish. But the reality is this will encourage people to move to pirating content instead.

source
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives

source
QuandaleDingle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Time to either quit porn or start downloading. It’s over.

source
- bbwolf1111@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Torrents for sure.
  
  source
  - Lemminary@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Telegram groups is where it’s at. ;)
    
    source
    -> View More Comments
- Not_mikey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Or just VPN, I assume that’s what most people are doing in those states.
  
  source
sakuraba@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Just posting on social media using your face to speak against the state in México gives you the privilege of being doxxed on national TV by the president, I can’t imagine what they would do with something like this

source
- TheAlbacor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Nice try CIA guy. Don’t you have more gen Z protests to schedule?
  
  source
  - sakuraba@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Nice try croquetero, don’t you have state propaganda to share on social media?
    
    source
BillyTheKid@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Good thing I know how to use VPNs

source
- entwine@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Peter Thiel is going to declare VPNs the antichrist now
  
  source
melfie@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I’m sure they’ll be getting a lot of photos with abnormally long noses and saggy, wrinkled, hairy chins.

source
horn_e4_beaver@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
This is the future you all dreamed of.

source
herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
No it doesn’t. Mullvad costs less than 6 dollars per month: mullvad.net/en/pricing

source
- wooffersyt@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Private Internet Access is less than $3/month.
  
  source
Lexam@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
I question the validity of this article. According to my VPN this is not true.

source
- Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  since PH is canadian, set your vpn/proxy to another country?
  
  source
Jinarched@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
diskprices.com/?locale=us

source
- Jinarched@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  You guys downvote it, but if I were you would fill hard drives with media you like right now. You might regret if you don’t.
  
  source
desi_touch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Applied for a permit to carry conflicting ideals. Denied for 'causing ideological clutter. 😗

source
jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
100% of commercial porn sites have always required you to identify yourself.

source
- ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Why do you bother saying this? You really think 10, 15 years ago sites required you to upload photo ID? Did you even use the Internet back then?
  
  source
  - Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    They saw “you must be 18 to enter” and went “oh man” like swiper.
    
    source
  - jerkface@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    If you want to purchase commercial porn, you need a credit card. To use a credit card, you must reveal the verified identity associated with it. To answer your initial question, my point was to draw your attention to the many interactions you already accept that are strongly associated with your legal identity. Personally, I would rather not give up my legal identity just to buy groceries from my local corrupt corporate grocery store, and I find that a LOT more invasive than doing so for porn.
    
    source
    -> View More Comments