As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.

Missouri became the 25th state to enact its own age verification law on Sunday. As it’s done in multiple other states, Pornhub and its network of sister sites—some of the largest adult content platforms in the world—pulled service in Missouri, replacing their homepages with a video of performer Cherie DeVille speaking about the privacy risks and chilling effects of age verification.

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  • sleen@lemmy.zip
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    13 hours ago

    With the rising popularity of VPNs due to increasingly more countries becoming more authoritarian, I wouldn’t be supposed there will be some anti-vpn directives put in place.

    In addition to that, increasingly more selections within vpn profiles will be just as restrictive as the fascist internet at home.

    VPNs are a great way to circumvent this police state but it ultimately doesn’t stop fascists and their motives.

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      7 hours ago

      Politicians who think they can ban VPNs are idiots who don’t know what they are or how many are used by businesses and such. It would never fly.