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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  • ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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    8 months ago

    When you are carded at a club the staff doesn’t scan your card and keep it on file. They simply look at it and return it.

    As someone who worked similar jobs and would have had to look at tons of IDs every day I can assure, I dont have the time or interest in remembering all of them.

    • DempstersBox@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      There’s a lot of bars/restaurants that do.

      I have literally been refused service because the only ID I had is a passport, and those barcodes wouldn’t scan into their system.

      It’s Papers, please, and it’s fucking bullshit

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      8 months ago

      That’s really what the whole rest of my reply was about. We need a system more like carding and less like giving them copy of your passport.

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        8 months ago

        Why does everyone in the US card everyone over something ostensibly about age?

        It’s never been about age.

        I’ve seen a seventy year old man with a foot long white beard get carded and refused, while he was stone cold sober.

        Do you think he can’t handle his liquor? He’s seventy. He knows what it does.

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            3 days ago

            And that’s bullshit! If the rule is about age, and they enforce it about everyone, it’s not fucking about age, it’s about paperwork. Are you a jew? or someone else we can throw in the camps