In other news, VPN subscription sales explode in Utah! easy sales opportunity
My guess would be: more visitors to from Utah?
PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
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#13Presumably they are using some form of IP address geolocation. If that's as inaccurate in the USA as it is in Australia, they're going to have problems - a lot of the time it puts me in the wrong State.
"They're going to have a problem" — for whom is that a problem?
Porhub made the best reasonable effort. The ISPs supplied inaccurate data and are in the jurisdiction, but aren't required to supply anything at all AFAICT. Who has a problem?
Re: PornHub blocks users in Utah, cites state’s age verification law
#14It’s probably only a matter of time. The internet became the only place where age verification wasn’t really a thing.
I’m honestly more surprised this didn’t happen 20 years ago.
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I imagine this is something that has been studied extensively, what good/bad o outcomes are known from societies that do/don't allow porn?
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Everybody knows that prohibition does not work. People will get their fix any other way.
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Society has many scourges and history seems to prove that prohibition is not the answer
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I imagine this is something that has been studied extensively, what good/bad o outcomes are known from societies that do/don't allow porn?
I imagine it's hard to study since you need to find two countries with similar socio-economic status, rights of women, attitudes towards marriage, rape etc but that have opposite opinions on pornography.
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#20This all seems a little disingenuous. First, from their summary, it doesn’t sound like the law actually requires checking a photo ID. They’re treating it like some maximalist regulation that it isn’t—it requires them to do more than nothing though. And also
> PornHub said that a better solution is to identify users by their device.
Pornhub effectively does absolutely nothing to verify users’ ages right now. Maybe it wouldn’t be such a bad thing if they did something.