Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas to object to a state law that requires the company to verify the age of users to prevent minors from accessing the site.

Texas residents who visit the site are met with a message from the company that criticizes the state’s elected officials who are requiring them to track the age of users.

The company said the newly passed law impinges on “the rights of adults to access protected speech” and fails to pass strict scrutiny by “employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’s stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors.”

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    How Dare They Block E621! Now I have to become an armchair warrior and get mad over something that doesn’t affect me in the slightest because I still have access! All while doing nothing about it!

    In all honesty, fuck these types of people for blocking sites that try to a degree to try and stop illegal porn on their platforms.

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      8 months ago

      Specifically, e621 has geoip blocking in place. Not ISPs or anyone else