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If Pornhub were a cowboy, then it has just tipped its hat and ridden off into the sunset to leave Texas.
The message then explains that the practice would "impinge on the rights of adults to access protected speech" and that it's the "least effective and yet also most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas' stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors." Texas' age verification rules require porn website visitors to prove their age by providing a copy of one of their government IDs.
Texas governor Greg Abbott signed the age verification bill into law last year, but a group of porn websites that included Pornhub filed a lawsuit to block it a month later. A judge issued a preliminary injunction that blocked its immediate enforcement, ruling that the plaintiffs showed that they "will likely be violated if the statute takes effect" and that they will "suffer irreparable harm." However, the state's attorney general, Ken Paxton , appealed the injunction.
Pornhub's message for its Texas visitors is the same one it shows visitors from other states with similar age verification laws, includingvisitors to verify their identities through the state's digital driver's license wallet app, but most states don't have a comparable application that works with its system.
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