Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas to object to a state law that requires the company to verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the site. Texas residents who visit the site ar…

Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas to object to a state law that requires the company to verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the site.

Texas residents who visit the site are met with a message from the company that criticizes the state’s elected officials who are requiring them to track the age of users.

The company said the newly passed law impinges on “the rights of adults to access protected speech” and fails to pass strict scrutiny by “employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’s stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors.”

  • bamboo@lemm.ee
    20·
    9 months ago

    All blocking porn in the states will do is push users to sites hosted in the EU/Russia/Brazil/etc. Probably with even fewer safety checks or regulations.

    • Tinidril@midwest.socialEnglish
      13·
      9 months ago

      I’m sure that a national firewall is next. These right wing freedom humpers are deeply envious of totalitarian regimes.

    • A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      9 months ago

      Came here to say this too. All they’re doing is pushing the users of those sites to less reputable sites

      I know how I was as a kid, and I sure as shit wouldn’t have stopped because my state said “no”

    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
      71·
      9 months ago

      I can almost guarantee that the EU would have better regulations. Given that the US doesn’t even have anything akin to GDPR. If you’re in the EU and get a “sorry we can’t let you use our site because of GDPR” warning, you should consider it a blessing in disguise. Because it means the US users are getting their data harvested and sold without their knowledge or consent, and the GDPR prevents that.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      12·
      9 months ago

      You may overestimate how technical the average person is. Think of the sort that would never bother with Lemmy.

      • bamboo@lemm.ee
        4·
        9 months ago

        I think this is one most people would figure out in time. After getting blocked on their go-to website, they’ll google or bing or whatever videos, and eventually find some that aren’t blocked and bookmark them.