Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas to object to a state law that requires the company to verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the site. Texas residents who visit the site ar…

Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas to object to a state law that requires the company to verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the site.

Texas residents who visit the site are met with a message from the company that criticizes the state’s elected officials who are requiring them to track the age of users.

The company said the newly passed law impinges on “the rights of adults to access protected speech” and fails to pass strict scrutiny by “employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’s stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors.”

  • @homura1650@lemm.ee
    34•9 months ago

    Interestingly, according to the article, the biggest effect is in 15-19 year olds; which are the people the law is intended to bar from accessing porn. Granted, I have no idea how good the underlying study that article is based off of is.

    • @skozzii@lemmy.ca
      1•9 months ago

      The ones that most definetely know how to use a vpn…

      It’s gonna be the boomer politicians that are big mad and can’t figure out a work around.

      • @aidan@lemmy.world
        2•9 months ago

        The ones that most definetely know how to use a vpn…

        There are plenty of 15-19 year olds who are good with computers, but also plenty who aren’t

        • @Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
          1•9 months ago

          The goal post for what “being good at computers” has moved quite a bit, stuff that was distinctly only known to the nerds and geeks is now common knowledge to the younger generations, just from what I’ve seen of my younger relatives compared to my geekyness growing up lol.

            • @Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works
              1•9 months ago

              VPNs was a good one, I have definitely heard from my younger siblings/cousins they’re familiar or use them at school.

              I remember being a select few at my school who knew how to use proxies to get to game sites on school PCS, I even made a little free hosted website for linking to proxies/unblocked game sites for my friends. (that eventually got blocked too, funny enough certain link shortners still worked for a bit since they seemingly blocked by Url)

              I’ll try to think of other examples, just something I had noticed talking to younger family members.

              I think it’s moreso just that it’s easier to do then it used to be.