bruce bowser <bruce1.9bowser@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, May 2, 2023 at 11:33:36 AM UTC-4, Lee wrote:
>> Pornhub Blocks All of Utah From Its Site
>> May 1, 2023
>>
>>
>> In response to a new law that
>> requires porn sites to verify
>> users’ ages, Pornhub has
>> completely disabled its websites
>> for people located in Utah.
>>
>> As of today, anyone accessing
>> Pornhub from a Utah-based IP
>> address doesn’t see the Pornhub
>> homepage, but instead is met
>> with a video of Cherie DeVille,
>> adult performer and member of
>> the Adult Performer Advocacy
>> Committee, explaining that they
>> won’t be able to visit the site.
>>
>> In January, Pornhub started
>> requiring identification from
>> Louisiana-based users, following
>> the passage of a law that makes
>> porn sites liable for content
>> deemed “harmful to minors.”
>> Several copycat bills started
>> moving through state legislatures
>> with varying success, including
>> in Arkansas, which recently
>> passed its version into law.
>>
>> In 2016, Utah declared porn a “
>> public health crisis,” and "an
>> epidemic that is harming the
>> citizens of Utah and the nation.”
>> Members of the Church of Jesus
>> Christ of Latter-day Saints have
>> recently and historically
>> represented the majority of
>> legislators in Utah, and in
>> 2009, Utah was considered the
>> “online porn capital” of the
>> United States, with the most
>> porn consumers logging on in
>> the nation. In 2021, Cox signed
>> a law that would require device
>> manufacturers to add adult
>> content filters on all
>> smartphones and tablets sold
>> in Utah.
>>
>> Experts say that age
>> verification doesn’t work to
>> protect children online, and
>> only works to drive material
>> that is harmful to minors to
>> less safe spaces on the
>> internet, while exposing adults
>> to more risk of identity theft,
>> private data hacks, and
>> extortion. Immediately after
>> SB 287 passed the house and
>> senate in Utah, residents
>> there started discussing how
>> best to use virtual private
>> networks to keep accessing porn.
>>
>> https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kbkv/pornhub-blocks-utah-age-verificat
>> ion?utm_source=reddit.com
>
> So sad. Really.
>

Can’t watch human sexuality, but all the violent, shootemups games, drug
gang videos are okay. Yup, priorities are fubar.