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.”

    • jonne@infosec.pub
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      7 months ago

      Yep, I do agree with that part of the statement. The only porn they’ll have access to will be completely unregulated and a haven for revenge porn and CP.

      Pornhub themselves weren’t amazing on that front to begin with, but they made more of an effort than most to try and clean that up due to regulatory pressures.

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        7 months ago

        The kind of sites who won’t bother complying with Texas’ age verification law because they already hosted all kinds of illegal shit are just going to explode in popularity further entrenching a depraved and violent subset of sexual abusers.

        Anyway, I’m glad to see this sentiment echoed on Lemmy. Everywhere else it feels like people are thoughtlessly praising Pornhub and thinking this is a “big win.”