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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  • Saapas@piefed.zip
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    9 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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      9 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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          7 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