Live data from Hacker News

Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

gizmodo.com

21–30 of 117 posts

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

#21
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What do you mean? CornHub already exists https://cornhub.website/

I clicked absentmindedly.. luckily it seems mostly harmless.

Would you really have been permanently damaged if it were a porn site? :)

I think it's very funny by the way :) Love the idea

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

#22
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

[deleted]

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

#24
post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"All your idea does is X" can be applied to anything and is likely based on nothing but your gut. This is not compelling reasoning.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

#25

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.

It's stigmatized for good reason. The amount of abuse within the pornography industry is immense. Anyone with any decent of ethics would refrain from consuming this material.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

#26
post #20

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 abusiv…

There are a million other ways to access it. I don't know how introducing privacy invading practices could end up as a net good.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

#27
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…

Or, just choose not to consume online pornography if you don't want to share your identity documents with a verification service.

It really is that simple.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

#28
post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It would be trivial to create a fake photo id site to generate files to upload.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

#29
So I'm in Texas and Pornhub already did the same thing here. What I don't get is all of the studio and professional aggregator sites that have existed for 30 years, well before user-generated video platforms were a thing, still operate in Texas. They use exactly the same age verification they've always used. Click yes on a splash screen before you can see free preview content, and submit a credit card to see paid content. If no one complains, we'll assume that was actually your credit card and you're thus 18.

Why is that good enough for every porn site in the world except Pornhub? I have still never seen a website ask for an actual ID except remote test proctoring stuff that popped up for IT certification exams after Covid closed the testing centers.

Re: Pornhub Pulls Out of Nebraska

#30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I clicked absentmindedly.. luckily it seems mostly harmless.

Would you really have been permanently damaged if it were a porn site? :) I think it's very funny by the way :) Love the idea

Loss of a job can be permanently damaging in some cases.
Post reply on HN