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I am a human least likely to be impacted by pornography legislation, and the new US porn ID checks are stupid, ineffective, and dangerous to cyber security and privacy. A big database of ID info is always a target, and socially engineering people to install malicious evasive tools is way too easy.
@hacks4pancakes I think what a lot of folks miss from the news is that pornhub hasn't been banned from various states, but those states have mandated age verification. Pornhub has decided that the execution of such to meet policies is dumb and insecure, so it essentially blocks people from those states so it doesn't have to follow those badly implemented rules.
They [hub] have stood for privacy and security in how the verifications work, which is good. More news websites need make this clear.
@hacks4pancakes (I'm sure you know this, and probably so do 95% of your followers, just adding to the details for that few percentage points that don't know the difference in the reporting)
@j_angliss and then the side effect of pure bans are skeevy or malicious vpns and proxy tools
@hacks4pancakes yes! The number of VPN ads I see on YouTube has spiked again recently. Most are pretty well known "brands" but you know "Steve in marketing" that wants a quick lunch time "view" probably doesn't care, they'll drop their credit card into some rando VPN service to get there.
@j_angliss @hacks4pancakes I'm pretty sure the point of these ID laws is to de facto ban porn sites without getting the first amendment involved. Pornhub blocking those states will be considered a success by the enactors of the law. I'd much rather see Pornhub actually take the case to the courts as pretty much the sole porn site left with the financial resources to do so.
@xarph @hacks4pancakes I think, maybe, if they saw enough of a drop in traffic, they'd take that up. But until then, "The South" will 'block' porn (but still statistically, probably, be a high user of specific types)