As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.

Missouri became the 25th state to enact its own age verification law on Sunday. As it’s done in multiple other states, Pornhub and its network of sister sites—some of the largest adult content platforms in the world—pulled service in Missouri, replacing their homepages with a video of performer Cherie DeVille speaking about the privacy risks and chilling effects of age verification.

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  • chunes@lemmy.world
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    5 hours ago

    Never thought I would live to see this day. Utterly pathetic. I remember even 20 years ago online censorship was extremely taboo.

    Making it easy for normies to get online was a massive blunder.

    • wooffersyt@lemmings.world
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      55 minutes ago

      Making it easy for normies to get online was a massive blunder.

      Finally we’re starting to connect the dots.

      Once the Disney-crowd enters the picture, it’s all over.

    • sonofearth@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      Blame folks like Jobs and Gates for this and all other tech giants who made technology extremely user friendly instead of educating the masses how to actually understand and use your computer safely. Now they are just sheeps.

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        53 minutes ago

        Their problem is that they served private interests by making sure most computer users are beholden to a company instead of the community.

        People might disagree with this, but Gates was way worse than Jobs. The entire windows ecosystem never should have existed.

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        2 hours ago

        Sure but one of those has been dead for over a decade and the other hasn’t been been active in the industry for even longer. There are more useful people to blame.