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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.

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[-] devolution@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago

Can I use my O face for verfication?

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[-] BillyTheKid@lemmy.ca 4 points 4 days ago

Good thing I know how to use VPNs

[-] entwine@programming.dev 3 points 3 days ago

Peter Thiel is going to declare VPNs the antichrist now

[-] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 9 points 5 days ago

Maybe they think they're requiring verification, but they underestimate the Internet

[-] melfie@lemy.lol 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Only websites hosted by landlubbers are bound by such laws.

[-] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days 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

Keep the downvotes coming, I live here and you don't have any idea if you really believe Morena is left leaning in any way or form

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[-] qyron@sopuli.xyz 5 points 4 days 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.

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