{"id":1966036,"date":"2023-07-06T19:04:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T23:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pornhub-blocks-access-to-3rd-state-rather-than-comply-with-child-safety-laws\/"},"modified":"2023-07-06T19:05:23","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T23:05:23","slug":"pornhub-blocks-access-to-3rd-state-rather-than-comply-with-child-safety-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pornhub-blocks-access-to-3rd-state-rather-than-comply-with-child-safety-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"PornHub refuses to comply with child safety laws, leading to access restrictions in one state."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpornhub-blocks-access-to-3rd-state-rather-than-comply-with-child-safety-laws%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1966036&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>PornHub Blocks Access to 3rd State Rather Than Comply with Child Safety Laws<\/h2>\n<p>Rather than deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-were-on-a-mission-advocacy-groups-behind-push-to-save-womens-sports-campaign-against-trans-surgeries-for-minors\/\" title=\"EXCLUSIVE: \u2018We\u2019re On A Mission\u2019: Advocacy Groups Behind Push To Save Women\u2019s Sports Campaign Against Trans Surgeries For Minors\">child safety laws<\/a>, the adult website PornHub is taking a stand by blocking content to states that have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pornhub-blocks-access-to-3rd-state-rather-than-comply-with-child-safety-laws\/\" title=\"PornHub refuses to comply with child safety laws, leading to access restrictions in one state.\">passed laws requiring age verification<\/a> to watch pornography.<\/p>\n<p>The site blocked residents of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pornhub-shut-off-access-virginia-states-new-law-goes-effect-july-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia<\/a> after its age verification law took effect on July 1.<\/p>\n<p>Now, residents of Mississippi and Utah are also blocked due to similar laws in their states that also took effect that day, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/jul\/4\/pornhub-blocks-access-virginia-mississippi-after-a\/?utm_medium=SocialFlow&#038;utm_source=Twitter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Times.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The laws differ slightly from state to state, but the concept is the same \u2014 anyone who wants to get on a porn site has to prove they are at least 18 years old. The way to do that is to submit personal data, such as a government identification document or driver\u2019s license.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s part of our job as society \u2014 and maybe a subset of my job as a lawmaker \u2014 to try to protect children,\u201d said Republican state Sen. Todd Weiler of Utah, a sponsor of his state\u2019s law, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/porn-age-verification-utah-8f8f4960ad1ec4afc5d59fd7d34c3b9d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not gonna blame all of society\u2019s ills on pornography, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s helpful when a kid is forming their impressions of sex and gender to have all of this filth and lewd depictions on their mind,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Louisiana enacted a similar law at the start of the year. Pornhub required gawkers from that state to use the LA Wallet app, a digital wallet for Louisiana driver\u2019s licenses, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/07\/03\/pornhub-blocks-access-in-mississippi-virginia-and-utah-amid-changing-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TechCrunch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince then, our traffic in Louisiana dropped approximately 80 percent,\u201d Pornhub said in a statement. \u201cThose people did not stop looking for porn. They just migrated to other corners of the internet that don\u2019t verify age, that don\u2019t follow the law, that don\u2019t take user safety seriously, and that often don\u2019t even moderate content.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Should more states copy these anti-porn laws?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Yes<\/li>\n<li>No<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pornhub wants devices to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/its-worse-than-we-thought-ex-bp-agent-says-no-way-to-verify-parents-are-real\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">verify age<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany devices already offer free and easy-to-use parental control features that can prevent children from accessing adult content without risking the disclosure of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/religious-leaders-call-out-facebook-for-new-prayer-feature\/\" title=\"Religious leaders call out Facebook for new \u2018prayer\u2019 feature\">sensitive user data<\/a>,\u201d Pornhub wrote.<\/p>\n<p>TechCrunch noted that \u201cparents may not be savvy enough to prevent children from bypassing these features.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Republican state Sen. Nicole Akins Boyd of Mississippi said parents were the driving force behind her state\u2019s law.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was approached by a number of individuals last year, probably about this time, that were concerned about the exposure that children have to pornography, a number of psychologists, a number of parents, and quite frankly, a number of individuals who had had porn addiction in there, and they got addicted as a child,\u201d Akins Boyd said, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlbt.com\/2023\/07\/04\/two-new-mississippi-laws-are-designed-protect-kids-easy-access-porn\/#:~:text=Senate%20Bill%202346%20became%20law,the%20screen%20is%20over%2018.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WLBT<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sad thing about this is the average age of exposure in the U.S. is around 12 years of age. Exposure to pornography for children leads to increased violence, mental health issues, addiction issues, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taxpayer-funded-study-pays-gay-minors-to-report-sexual-activity-without-parental-permission\/\" title=\"Taxpayer-Funded Study Pays Gay Minors To Report Sexual Activity Without Parental Permission\">risky sexual behavior<\/a>. So we need to do something to limit their exposure,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/supreme-court-hands-huge-win-christian-graphic-artist\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian<\/a>\u00a0website\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.focusonthefamily.com\/parenting\/use-of-pornography-among-tweens-and-teens\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Focus On the Family<\/a>, a study spanning 1995 through 2015 found that 64 percent of people aged 13 to 24 viewed pornography at least weekly, and 49 percent of young people first viewed pornography before age 13.<\/p>\n<p>Focus On the Family also said 90 percent of boys and 70 percent of girls younger than 18 admitted to having seen pornography at least once, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/disney-hired-porn-star-live-action-remake-classic-animated-film-reports-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">children<\/a> between the ages of 12 to 17 make up the largest group of internet porn users.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we\u2019ve had is the unfettered wild, wild west ability of these pornography sites, such as YouPorn and Pornhub, to have someone who accesses their site without restriction to age,\u201d said Virginia Republican state Sen. Bill Stanley, who sponsored his state\u2019s law, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginiamercury.com\/2023\/03\/09\/bill-to-require-additional-proof-of-age-for-porn-sites-in-virginia-heads-to-youngkins-desk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virginia Mercury<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Stanley called childhood exposure to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/view-hosts-lose-crackdown-lgbt-porn-suggest-sick-workaround-book-bans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pornography<\/a> an \u201cepidemic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/pornhub-blocks-access-3rd-state-rather-comply-child-safety-laws\/\">PornHub Blocks Access to 3rd State Rather Than Comply with Child Safety Laws<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PornHub is taking a different approach to child safety laws by blocking content in states that mandate age verification for accessing pornography. Following Virginia&#8217;s law implementation on July 1, the website restricted access to its residents. Now, Mississippi and Utah residents are also blocked due to comparable legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":1966037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1966037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}