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Pornhub to leave five more states over age-verification laws (www.engadget.com)

submitted 1 week ago by along_the_road@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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[-] along_the_road@beehaw.org 64 points 1 week ago

Over the past year, Pornhub had to make the difficult decision to block access to users in numerous American states due to newly passed Age Verification laws (Texas, Utah, Arkansas, Virginia, Montana, North Carolina, Mississippi). In July 2024, we will unfortunately be blocking several more states who are introducing similar laws. (Indiana, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky and Nebraska.)

[-] BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca 45 points 1 week ago

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[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 27 points 1 week ago

Pornhub should buy a VPN service. Just cut out the middle man.

[-] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 73 points 1 week ago

The middle-man provides plausible deniability in this case. PornHub can genuinely say they don't see connections from age-verification states atm. That stops being true if they host the VPN, making them aware of actual client locations.