#age verification bs

[mbrainspaz]

Well, guess I'm deleting Bluesky.

It was really boring anyway.

[plague-of-insomnia]

“You’re too online! Why are you always making such a big deal over stupid fandom issues that don’t impact anyone in real life”

Meanwhile, Texas: passed a law that has been upheld and caused sites like pornhub to disable all access for users in the state in order to “comply with the law”

The Texas law was signed by Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in June 2023. The legislation, Texas H.B. 11811, was scheduled to go into effect on Sept. 1, but it was on hold after the lawsuit filed by the Free Speech Coalition (a group that includes Pornhub’s parent company) resulted in a preliminary injunction staying its enforcement. The law applies to online publishers whose content is more than one-third “sexual material harmful to minors” and requires them to verify the age of all visitors using a government-issued ID or “public or private transactional data.”

Does this argument sound familiar to you ???

While KOSA did not pass, this exactly the world that puritans want.

And for those of you who think “i don’t care, bc i don’t use pornhub or other sites like it and/or I don’t live in texas” if more places adopt these things more sites will be forced to shut down or ban content completely, even stuff that could be considered educational might be left off as sites fear legal repercussions.

This is a major issue everyone should care about, even if you never consume “adult” content.

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