Pornhub blocks North Carolina and Montana as porn regulation spreads

How is it these laws can get passed but our legislatures can’t do anything that’s actually important for society? 

Republicans doing a real good job giving a peek into what voting Red will do for them this year

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Once again, a vice is blamed for its own sake, “for the children”, instead of the thing people are running from, or the hole they are filling. It’s the Right’s version of virtue signaling.

Porn addiction is just an addiction, and removing porn will not remove addiction in people. Thirst can’t be cured by drying up the well. Saying nothing about the constitutionality of this, restricting potentially addictive content through nanny state ID systems is worthless… check history. South Korea plan was dropped, UK plans for the same thing were dropped. It's not only ineffective, as kids will always find a way through the cracks, but it also extremely difficult to implement and erodes the bedrock of privacy. We're not solving addiction, we're just building a surveillance state under the guise of protection. Solutions are in addressing the root causes of addiction and fostering resilience, not in this game of whack-a-mole that sacrifices our privacy.

Yeah bruh, I try to avoid porn. Personal decision. PERSONAL. Stay the fuck out of everyone’s goddamn lives. Fucking fascist republican swine.

Classic big government nanny state move. That political party which claims to be against this sort of overreach must be upset over it, right?

VPN companies don't need much advertising these days. The customers will come by themselves!

Imagine linking your porn watching to your government ID? It WILL leak, and you'll be embarrassed. 😳

It's real generous of these states to boost business for VPN companies like this

In Virginia, they are required to gather personal information and that’s weird. So its just not available here. But when you think of it, porn hub went to great lengths to minimize the problems with the industry. And these sort of regulations are doing the same thing that prohibition did. Push normal citizens into interacting with seedy elements, dangerous situations, and exploitation.

"the land of the free"

It's ridiculous that elected officials can be so unbelievably fucking stupid.

What a fucking waste of tax dollars

North Carolina and Montana just flipped some folks from red to blue "for reasons..."

best of all, this strategy isn't going to decrease viewership, probably increase it. it's also going to increase the usage of vpn's.

Well I guess it's back to the garbage bag of porn mags in the woods for North Carolina and Montana kids.

Seriously tho, who is this law stopping? When I was a kid I would traverse the entire city if it meant there was a chance I'd see a boob.

If I had to start torrenting porn I would probably develop a serious habit from having to curate my own library. I would also gain full access to videos I normally wouldn't bother with making everything even more involved.

The beauty of pornhub is you load it up, do some minor browsing, settle on something and forget all about it. Having to maintain a personal library would consume more of your time and you would develop even more intense prefrences.

Lol I was just in Utah and on a home wifi there, pornhub was blocked (100% blocked, like you cannot access the site).

But if I switched to data, it was not blocked

Lol -- how's that working out for ya, Utah??

In only a couple of years girls aren't allowed to go to school anymore.

I hope those hosts provide a nice greeting page explaining which politicians are guilty of this, and how sneaky their underhand rider was abusing the legal system.

In other news: Reports of malware on home users' PCs spike in North Carolina and Montana.

"Pornography, manifested today in the omnipresent propagation of transgender ideology and sexualization of children, for instance, is not a political Gordian knot inextricably binding up disparate claims about free speech, property rights, sexual liberation, and child welfare. It has no claim to First Amendment protection. Its purveyors are child predators and misogynistic exploiters of women. Their product is as addictive as any illicit drug and as psychologically destructive as any crime. Pornography should be outlawed. The people who produce and distribute it should be imprisoned. Educators and public librarians who purvey it should be classed as registered sex offenders. And telecommunications and technology firms that facilitate its spread should be shuttered.[20]" — "A Promise to America", Mandate for Leadership: The Conservative Promise, p. 5, Project 2025

Meanwhile, the other sites are promoting trans anal piss porn, so that’s what I’m into now I guess, since that’s the only option.

From my cold, dead, well-lubricated hands! Suddenly all this porn hoarding I’ve been doing all these years doesn’t seem so crazy after all. Well, maybe a little.

So what are they gonna do? Figure out how to bill companies all over the world for not knowing their local bullshit and accommodating it? Fucking clowns.

North Carolina and Montana, why you so dumb?

Party of small gubermnt

BUT MAH FREEDOMS!!!

At least the yokels stuck it to the libs before they had all their extra-depraved porn taken away.

Nothing what my VPN can't handle..

People will just go to XVideos.

I suspect that long term, if more states keep end up passing laws about this, it might drive people away from dedicated sites for this content and towards pages made for it on social media type platforms instead. These laws tend to stipulate that they apply only when a certain percentage of a website is adult content (for obvious reasons I imagine, if just one instance was enough to apply then they'd apply to basically any platform with user generated content, since people are inevitably going to try to post it), which leaves the very obvious work around of just mixing it into a site that also contains mostly other types of content.

Freedom!

Laws and rules such as these really puts a light on how local politicians think technology works vs how it actually works.

e621 is gone as well, so I bought a month of ProtonVPN, here's hoping that'll be enough.

I give this 6 months before the list of visitors is released...

This is blatantly unconstitutional.

This is the first time I've seen Pornhub block a place as opposed to the place blocking PH 😂🤣😂🤣

Vpns and proxies to the rescue!

This feels like a co-ordinated attack on LGBT porn more than anything.

I typically hate this sort of low effort comment, but I feel like the best response is: lol.

Good. Don't serve that irrational bullshit.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

404Media reported that residents in both North Carolina and Montana visiting Pornhub and other Aylo-owned sites like Redtube or Brazzers are now greeted by a video of performer Cherie DeVille, and a handful of paragraphs, telling them their states are now blocked.

Aylo began blocking access in the states last week, according to reporting from multiple outlets including The Fayetteville Observer and KRTV in Great Falls, Montana.

Despite the company’s safety claims, Aylo was recently fined $1.8 million by the federal government for allegedly willfully hosting videos of sex trafficking victims.

Louisiana, Utah, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Virginia have passed similar laws, prompting Pornhub to block access in those states as well.

Meanwhile, Texas passed its own identification law, currently under appeal in the Fifth Circuit, that also requires adult film sites to show unsubstantiated warnings about the health risks of watching porn.

Correction January 2nd, 2024, 5:23PM ET: A previous version of this article implied Pornhub currently used device identifiers for age verification; we’ve updated to reflect this has not been confirmed.

The original article contains 464 words, the summary contains 172 words. Saved 63%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

Conservative ideology is absolutely bonkers. Ban, ban, ban, ban. We'd still be living in mud huts if they had their way.

Pornhub is a horrible website profiting from rape and sexual traffic. Not the only one, but probably the biggest one. I wish the worst to this website and its owners.

Republicans missing what is the main problem again.

As someone who has struggled with addiction to lust and pornography from a very young age, I'm disappointed by some of the reactions I'm seeing here.