PornHub and all of its affiliate sites now block all residents of Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia (and Florida on Jan 1): https://www.pcmag.com/news/pornhub-blocked-florida-alabama-t...
Child safety, as always, was the sugar that made the medicine go down in freedom-loving USA. I imagine these states' approaches will try to move to the federal level after Section 230 dies an ignominious death.
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A lot of the motivation comes from government regulations too. Right now this is mostly in banking, but social media and porn regs are coming too.
PornHub and all of its affiliate sites now block all residents of Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia (and Florida on Jan 1): https://www.pcmag.com/news/pornhub-blocked-florida-alabama-t...
Child safety, as always, was the sugar that made the medicine go down in freedom-loving USA. I imagine these states' approaches will try to move to the federal level after Section 230 dies an ignominious death.
Keep an eye out for Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton to hit SCOTUS in January: https://www.oyez.org/cases/2024/23-1122