Missouri’s age verification law, enacted on November 30, is the halfway mark for the sweep of age verification laws across the country.

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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  • brianpeiris@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 hour ago

    I did the math and it’s 49.37% of the population, based on the 2024 census data, or 49.94% if you exclude Puerto Rico and D.C. I suppose mostly due to Texas and Florida being in the list, but also Ohio, Georgia and North Carolina with over 10M people each.

    Here's the raw data

    Based on the table from Wikipedia, and the list of states in the article.

    State Population (2024) Requires Age Verification Population Requiring Age Verification
    California 39,431,263 0
    Texas 31,290,831 x 31,290,831
    Florida 23,372,215 x 23,372,215
    New York 19,867,248 0
    Pennsylvania 13,078,751 0
    Illinois 12,710,158 0
    Ohio 11,883,304 x 11,883,304
    Georgia 11,180,878 x 11,180,878
    North Carolina 11,046,024 x 11,046,024
    Michigan 10,140,459 0
    New Jersey 9,500,851 0
    Virginia 8,868,896 x 8,868,896
    Washington 7,958,180 0
    Arizona 7,582,384 x 7,582,384
    Tennessee 7,227,750 x 7,227,750
    Massachusetts 7,136,171 0
    Indiana 6,924,275 x 6,924,275
    Maryland 6,263,220 0
    Missouri 6,245,466 x 6,245,466
    Wisconsin 5,960,975 0
    Colorado 5,957,493 0
    Minnesota 5,793,151 0
    South Carolina 5,478,831 x 5,478,831
    Alabama 5,157,699 x 5,157,699
    Louisiana 4,597,740 x 4,597,740
    Kentucky 4,588,372 x 4,588,372
    Oregon 4,272,371 0
    Oklahoma 4,095,393 x 4,095,393
    Connecticut 3,675,069 0
    Utah 3,503,613 x 3,503,613
    Nevada 3,267,467 0
    Iowa 3,241,488 0
    Puerto Rico 3,203,295 0
    Arkansas 3,088,354 x 3,088,354
    Kansas 2,970,606 x 2,970,606
    Mississippi 2,943,045 x 2,943,045
    New Mexico 2,130,256 0
    Nebraska 2,005,465 x 2,005,465
    Idaho 2,001,619 x 2,001,619
    West Virginia 1,712,278 0
    Hawaii 1,446,146 0
    New Hampshire 1,409,032 0
    Maine 1,405,012 0
    Montana 1,137,233 x 1,137,233
    Rhode Island 1,112,308 0
    Delaware 1,051,917 0
    South Dakota 924,669 x 924,669
    North Dakota 796,568 x 796,568
    Alaska 740,133 0
    District of Columbia 702,250 0
    Vermont 648,493 0
    Wyoming 587,618 x 587,618
    343,314,283 169,498,848
    49.37%