Pornhub blocked all users in Arkansas after the state’s new age verification law went into effect on Tuesday. The law requires porn sites to verify that users are at least 18 years old. Pornhub argued that requiring ID verification actually harms users’ privacy and puts children at risk. MindGeek, Pornhub’s operator, has decided to block access from states with similar age verification laws. After complying with a similar law in Louisiana, Pornhub traffic dropped by 80%, so they decided blocking access entirely was preferable to implementing age verification.
States they have blocked for similar laws: Virginia, Utah, Mississippi.
In Louisiana the first state to do this they tried to comply and their traffic decreased by 80%.
Good. Let all the conservative boomers who can’t figure out VPNs get pissed at their legislators for trying to push this b.s.
If they get this to be normalized, next up will be “well there are other sites we can’t control, so now you need to put in your ID card into a reader anytime you’re online!”
Republicans would love to have their own version of WeChat and their own great firewall. That’s what Musk is planning to do with whatever he’s calling twitter now, after all.
I’m sure they will eventually try to force ID’s because it would be profitable for criminal data theft ads stalkers. This is all about corrupt money and exploitation. Billionaires are worthless parasites that have no right to exist in a Democratic system. Fuck the US fascist oligarchy party.
So, you know, I was a child in the 1980s, still had access to porn. In magazines, on VHS. They won’t stop making porn. If it’s out there, the people will access. The people who made these laws will access, no doubt. So dumb.
The problem is not access, it’s unlimited instant access. We had to wait until our parents weren’t home to raid Dad’s stash. Or catch a tape from someone’s uncle at a sleepover. It’s a world of difference.
That being said, blocking is not the answer. Blocking the major sites just pushes people to smaller sites, which may be more likely to harbor revenge porn, underage content, nonconsensual content, etc.
I really don’t see the difference. Instant access versus delayed access… sounds like a Freud book I read about once about the pleasure principle. It’s all silly. The timing has nothing to do with anything. As a matter of fact, you’ve just argued yourself out of your own argument and made my point all over again. You can see it tomorrow, you can have it today. You can delay your pleasure. You can choose not to delay your pleasure. You can delay your pleasure because that’s what pleasures you.
According to the cookies experiment, learning to delay instant rewards in exchange for higher future rewards, is a skill usually acquired at a young age that leads to higher success rates later in life.
Applied to sexual pleasure, the choice might be less relevant in adults, but growing up and getting used to instant unlimited gratification, sounds like a way to end up with an incel/rape culture mindset.
I think it’s dangerous and disingenuous to substitute your imagination for evidence when describing a trend that doesn’t appear to exist.
Reported rates of rape are the same in 2020 as in 1990
They’ll be fine so long as they still have their cousins.
I sense a lot of pastors who now have to be reading the bible like they said they were
Louisiana government just recently got hacked and I’m absolutely sure the porn verification stuff got leaked along with it.
In sustained French, “verge” is a synonym for “penis”. So, it made me smile to see an article about Pornhub in TheVerge.
For extra linguistic amusement, they also mention the state of Virginia, etymologically descending from “virgin” from Latin “virgo”, which descended from “virga”, which happens to also have been an euphemism for “penis” in Latin, from where it descended into the French “verge” keeping the meaning, and from there to the English “verge”, where initially did also mean “penis”, but lost the meaning over time.
So, when reading about PornHub in Virginia on TheVerge… you can smile twice, or more 😉
Thank you for making the article ~20% cooler
So…not that I will ever be for such an idea, but how is requiring ID putting kids at risk. I thought that was a misquote, but no, that’s what the article itself says. Are we really just saying whatever random words come to mind these days?
It’s puts everyone at risk. How do you expect that to be securely checked? Not only is it basically privacy invasive to the maximum, but you’re giving your government ID to multiple different sites who now have the job of securing your ID. With how many hacks go on nowadays, your ID is the last thing you want to get leaked. It’s not much different from getting your SSN hacked.
Government run Oauth is the only real way to implement this, with zero PII being provided to the porn sites. All they get is an anonymised token when you log in.
Then again, the government Oauth service needs to be hardened in that case, but presumably government web stuff has government level security practices.They’re still running Windows. It’s a bad idea.
Their personal data will need to be stored somewhere for this to work, and it will leak. Eventually. Security always fails. And with these government age ID systems built by the lowest bidder it will fail sooner rather than later.
