About two or so years ago, a trend in the US started where individual states started to require online porn sites to do some form of age verification to keep kids from accessing online porn. Now whether that is the true goal of the states who do this is an open question as some would argue that these states are trying to restrict access to the Internet. But I will leave you to form your own opinion on that.
As of the new year, the list of states that restrict online porn is as follows:
- Virginia
- Montana
- North Carolina
- Arkansas
- Utah
- Mississippi
- Texas
- Nebraska
- Idaho
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Indiana
- Alabama
- Oklahoma
- Florida
- Tennessee
- South Carolina
- Louisiana
Georgia has a law that takes effect in July.
The net result of this is that porn sites such as PornHub which is apparently the biggest player in the online porn space have outright blocked access to their sites in those states. Why? Well, for sites like PornHub to comply with these laws, they would have to perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material, which usually involves uploading your ID to them for verification purposes. PornHub clearly doesn’t want to play gatekeeper, nor do they want to be responsible for all that personally identifiable information, so they blocked access instead.
Now history has proven that if someone wants to ban something, those who want access to what is being banned will find a way to access it somehow. Which is why it isn’t surprising to me that according to VPN Mentor, in the state of Florida alone, they detected a surge of 1150% in VPN demand in the first few hours. You have to assume that similar things are happening in other states that have been geo blocked by PornHub. Meaning that the efforts to restrict access to online porn are completely ineffective. Not that I am surprised by that because anyone who has been on the Internet for something longer than 60 seconds could have predicted that this was going to happen. Thus it will be interesting to see what these states do next? Do they ban VPN usage? Do they force ISP’s to hand over info on which of their customers use VPNs? Do they go after PornHub or other online sites for not doing enough in their eyes? Or do they do nothing?
Get the popcorn ready.
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About two or so years ago, a trend in the US started where individual states started to require online porn sites to do some form of age verification to keep kids from accessing online porn. Now whether that is the true goal of the states who do this is an open question as some would argue that these states are trying to restrict access to the Internet. But I will leave you to form your own opinion on that.
As of the new year, the list of states that restrict online porn is as follows:
Georgia has a law that takes effect in July.
The net result of this is that porn sites such as PornHub which is apparently the biggest player in the online porn space have outright blocked access to their sites in those states. Why? Well, for sites like PornHub to comply with these laws, they would have to perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age of individuals attempting to access the material, which usually involves uploading your ID to them for verification purposes. PornHub clearly doesn’t want to play gatekeeper, nor do they want to be responsible for all that personally identifiable information, so they blocked access instead.
Now history has proven that if someone wants to ban something, those who want access to what is being banned will find a way to access it somehow. Which is why it isn’t surprising to me that according to VPN Mentor, in the state of Florida alone, they detected a surge of 1150% in VPN demand in the first few hours. You have to assume that similar things are happening in other states that have been geo blocked by PornHub. Meaning that the efforts to restrict access to online porn are completely ineffective. Not that I am surprised by that because anyone who has been on the Internet for something longer than 60 seconds could have predicted that this was going to happen. Thus it will be interesting to see what these states do next? Do they ban VPN usage? Do they force ISP’s to hand over info on which of their customers use VPNs? Do they go after PornHub or other online sites for not doing enough in their eyes? Or do they do nothing?
Get the popcorn ready.
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