The Supreme Court just let Texas’ porn law requiring verification stand. To prevent minors from accessing pornography, sites are now required to verify age with each sign on. While this is terrible for health care and LGTBQ youth, not to mention a terrible security risk for users, the consequences are already occurring. Pornhub is stating that it may no longer offer services in Texas since the verification process is too onerous.
Too bad, Texans. No porn for you!
Okay, I’ll cop to it, we didn’t send you our best there.
It took me a couple of hours to set up a VPN at home for my kids when they were in school overseas, so they could get US Netflix. Are any VPN companies public? Seems like a good trade right now.
Now let me talk about the sponsor of today’s post, NordVPN!
A similar thing happened in Kansas, and Pornhub is no longer available in my home state. That’s too bad, because Pornhub is by far and away the best free porn site on the internet.
That’s what I’ve been told, anyway.
I wonder if minors can access NordVPN ( and other VPN sites).
I’ve been told that search engines like, for example, Bing, will play Pornhub videos on their site directly. I wonder how that would work.
| CHKP | Check Point Soft. |
|---|---|
| CSCO | Cisco Systems |
| FTNT | Fortinet |
| JNPR | Juniper Networks |
| PANW | Palo Alto Networks |
| ZS | Zscaler |
North Carolina is also on the list of “nanny states” so I can’t access PornHub. I did just get an offer of three free months of Avast SecureLine VPN along with my upcoming renewal of Avast Premium Security. Maybe I’ll take advantage of it.
That’s the VPN that I use. I have no complaints.
Fret not, Texans. In the words of James Whitcomb Riley Greenleaf Whittier: “Home is where the inflatable sex doll is.”
You don’t think that’s full of hot air?
He was released after 1/3 of his sentence for “good behavior”.
Sounds like a typical Canadian to me!
Pointless early deaths make me sad.
Abundance of MAGAts, of all kinds, makes me sad.
Which to choose, which to choose.
I don’t understand this. What do you mean?
Terrible for health care and LGBTQ youth because information about sexuality, STDs etc can now be restricted to those over 18 by labeling it pornography.
A security risk because having to prove your age means exposing personal data to the internet.
What’s funny is that I bet the knowledge of and ability to use a VPN is inversely correlated with age, down to a point.
You think the average 13 year old doesn’t know how to use a VPN?
Can the average 13 YO pay for a VPN? (or are there ‘free’ ones?)
In more ways than just having the best free content. Pornhub and other Aylo owned sites have been the most responsible sites in ensuring that the media they host only contain models who are willing participants and are of age. They’ve been proactive at removing media that does not meet their standards.
Pornhub is following the law, and denying access to those states that require age verification. People aren’t getting VPNs to access Pornhub, they’re going to other porn sites that don’t care about following the law. Along with allowing access from anyone, they also are willing to host pirated videos, private sex tapes, and similar.
So the consequence of these laws is to drive people away from the responsible actors and towards the bad actors.
All of that is actually beside the point, though. The purpose of these laws is not to protect children, it is to ban porn.
Honestly, I don’t know what they cost or if there are free ones.
However, it isn’t hard to imagine them getting their parents to pay for one, especially if they convince them they’re important for security or for getting more content on Netflix.
And anyway, if there’s a way around the age verification they’ll figure it out long before the parents know they’ve done so.
I certainly found ways to access beer, cigarettes, and porn when I was a kid in the 80s.