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Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by bloqs »

nhumrich wrote: post #9
havblue wrote: post #4

"Nebraska Legislative Bill 1092 went into effect on Friday making it a requirement for sites that show adult content to verify the age of users. This usually means some form of identification needs to be uploaded to the site to confirm the person using the site is 18 or over. " Yeah, just upload your driver's licence to every sketchy site you browse to. What could go wrong? I'm much more in favor of Leisure Suit Larr…

Except that 16 year olds will likely pass this better than a quarter of adults. Also, is there some magic knowledge you somehow learn the day you turn 18? The problem is from a legal standpoint, 17 and 364 days, is not allowed. But "turned 18 an hour ago" is. Also: we live in the age of chatgpt. Knowledge proves nothing anymore.

He isnt saying there is, but hes saying that its better than the alternative

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by Volundr »

paulvnickerson wrote: post #8

The fact that this website simply refuses to do any kind of age verification says a lot about their leadership and possibly their motives...

I mean I don't want to be responsible for keeping a bunch of people's photo IDs secure either. What does that say about my leadership and motives?

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by shrimp_emoji »

paulvnickerson wrote: post #8

The fact that this website simply refuses to do any kind of age verification says a lot about their leadership and possibly their motives...

Yeah, it says a lot of good.

You can't do it without turning your site into a panoptical dystopia where even more of your personal data ends up with the NSA, third party data brokers, or hackers on the darknet. None of that's worth people's silly moralism to me.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by nhumrich »

bloqs wrote: post #11
nhumrich wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Except that 16 year olds will likely pass this better than a quarter of adults. Also, is there some magic knowledge you somehow learn the day you turn 18? The problem is from a legal standpoint, 17 and 364 days, is not allowed. But "turned 18 an hour ago" is. Also: we live in the age of chatgpt. Knowledge proves nothing anymore.

He isnt saying there is, but hes saying that its better than the alternative

How? It does absolutely nothing to prove the person is an adult. All it does is block actual, legally allowed users. The whole purpose of the proof of ID is legal liability. The quiz doesn't do anything for legal liability.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by wkat4242 »

paulvnickerson wrote: post #8

The fact that this website simply refuses to do any kind of age verification says a lot about their leadership and possibly their motives...

The thing is, age verification that consists of more than a simple button of "yes I'm over 18" is privacy intrusive. Who wants to register as a porn viewer? Especially in the US where this is stigmatised.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by wkat4242 »

Volundr wrote: post #13
paulvnickerson wrote: post #8

The fact that this website simply refuses to do any kind of age verification says a lot about their leadership and possibly their motives...

I mean I don't want to be responsible for keeping a bunch of people's photo IDs secure either. What does that say about my leadership and motives?

And what point is there to even give a website photo ID? How will they validate your face? They have no need for the photo.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by IshKebab »

I wonder what age verification system Pornhub would want. I mean if they actually do want one (dubious) and they don't want to deal with people's IDs (very sensible) then they could propose one.

I would have thought it's pretty easy. Have a government site that verifies your ID and just produces some kind of cryptographic token that porn sites can verify but reveals nothing other than the fact that you are over 18.

I mean realistically that's pointless because VPNs... but it's better than what they are currently demanding at least.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

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Post by doggero »

This is good news. Here's hoping for a federal law that makes age verification for pornographic content a requirement across all states.

There's no reason why these sites shouldn't shoulder their share of the responsibility to prevent children from accessing this content.

It's really quite telling that Pornhub is removing itself from all markets where it's mandated to do this. Like all dealers of addictive and abusive substances, they want to hook their users in while young and impressionable.

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