Pornhub has gone dark in Texas in protest of the state’s age verification law, which requires porn sites to verify a user’s age before they access the site.
Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas in response to the state’s online age verification law. The site now displays a message to users in the state that says having to provide an ID when accessing an adult website “is not an effective solution for protecting users online.” Last year, Texas enacted a previously blocked age verification law that requires users to upload photos of their government IDs before accessing a pornographic website.
“Not only does this impinge on the rights of adults to access protected speech, it fails strict scrutiny by employing the least effective and yet also the most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’s stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors.” Pornhub argues that on-device age verification is “the only effective solution for protecting minors and adults alike.” This method could involve using facial recognition or another method to verify a user’s age locally on their device.
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