Pornhub has shut off access in Mississippi and Virginia to protest age verification laws that can involve checking government IDs. It previously blocked access in Utah.
PH is trash but these laws are dumb as fuck and misguided. are we really pretending that you shouldn’t be horny until 18 or whatever
I came around the idea of stricter enforcement of age verification for online services. But the way it is implemented doesn’t make any sense. I wouldn’t trust porn sites with any personal information of mine.
I like the idea France is working on, a double anonymity age verification service. A third-party (hopefully the government) is used to verify your age and generate a token and that token can be used on any site to verify your age. The site verifying your age doesn’t know for which service you are generating the token and the site doesn’t have any access to personal data.
Whether or not pornographic material should be accessible to people under the age of 18 is another topic. I am not sure what a good age cut-off would be. But I definitely agree that there should be an age limit.
Doesn’t the (government?) site that provided the token learn which site it was for when that site requested the token be verified?
This law is sponsored by Nord VPN
I’ve never used Nord but the fact they’re the ones getting pushed on users by corporate “security” packages and identity theft FUD scammers indicates to me that Nord is the VPN “they” want you to use. Mullvad for the win.
This actually pushed me and a couple of friends to subscribe to Nord; I’d been thinking I should get a VPN for a while anyways. I looked through VPN’s and I ended up liking Nord’s feature set and price vs ExpressVPN. Never thought I’d use them back when they were EVERY video’s sponsor on YouTube lol.
If true that Nord lobbied for this, run away. That company will not respect your privacy.
Mullvad is decent and has a track record of being subpoenaed by LE but keeping nothing, so having nothing to show. Tho I’m sad they just got rid of port forwarding (only affects seeding torrents)
Nord VPN also keeps logs and has handed them over to police forces.
So far I’m like the proton suite, have my email and VPN through them.
you got a loicense to fap mate?!
why is this getting so much traction in the media? there’s so many other, arguably better resources for pornography on the interwebs
It’s important to ensure coverage of state control. These “moral” issues being delt with via legislative means is abhorrent. Land of the free, eh?
I think it’s just highlighting that state governments are making crazy laws like this, and PH is one of the big dogs everyone knows
Yea, so many better sites.
We should list them here so everyone can avoid them though.
Sorry mate. If your state blocks porn in this way you need to move or vote for better representation.
There have been multiple cases of underage girls on PH and SA videos that PH wouldn’t remove when requested by the victim, even a verified account was a trafficked 15 year old. PH is another big corporation that doesn’t give a fuck about people don’t let them fool you
Update your facts. Pornhub cleaned up and did a great purge of questionable content. If they couldn’t verify it then it went. Anything questionable got flagged and deleted.
Now that Pornhub is blocked, well, people looking for porn will find MORE questionable content.
If you want better safer porn then YOU SHOULD BE SUPPORTING PORNHUB.
Call me crazy but I’m not very quick to forgive or trust again a platform that allowed sexual assault videos of a teenage girl to remain publicly posted. I don’t think pornhub is the epitome of ethical porn either. But on that note if people care about the ethics of their consumption I think they should consider decreasing their porn usage in general, it’s a pretty obvious net negative for personal health and societal health
Valid points. Not trusting pornhub after it taking so long to clean up it’s content might be the better choice overall. Especially if ethics in porn is a top priority. I do think consuming too much porn is a problem for some people and it could start to warp perception if the consumer can’t separate reality and fantasy.
I think most people don’t care about ethics in porn, so I try to rep any small push toward good. It’s not perfect but “don’t let perfect be the enemy of good” and all.
Do you not remember the purge? They went from 12M vids to 2M overnight. And now it’s verified posters only. Sure, took em long enough to do something about it, but so far they are the only ones to do anything about it.
Im not ready to give them a pat on the back and a gold star because they took down videos of people being raped 🤷♀️ that’s kind of the bare minimum. If all internet porn platforms contain some unethical or not-consensual content and PornHub has the least, that’s not a good enough reason to promote them imo
