Pornhub vs Texas

From the «Texan jerks struggle to jerk it» department:
Feed: Ars Technica - All content
Title: Pornhub blocks all of Texas to protest state law—Paxton says “good
riddance”
Author: Jon Brodkin
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:57:56 -0400
Link: https://arstechnica.com/?p=2010517

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Enlarge[2] / Signs displayed at the Pornhub booth at the 2024 AVN Adult
Entertainment Expo at Resorts World Las Vegas on January 25, 2024 in Las Vegas,
Nevada. (credit: Getty Images | Ethan Miller /)

Pornhub has disabled its website in Texas following a court ruling that upheld a
state law requiring age-verification systems on porn websites. Visitors to
pornhub.com in Texas are now greeted with a message calling the Texas law
"ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous."

"As you may know, your elected officials in Texas are requiring us to verify
your age before allowing you access to our website. Not only does this impinge
on the rights of adults to access protected speech, it fails strict scrutiny by
employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive means of
accomplishing Texas's stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors," Pornhub's
message said.

Pornhub said it has "made the difficult decision to completely disable access to
our website in Texas. In doing so, we are complying with the law, as we always
do, but hope that governments around the world will implement laws that actually
protect the safety and security of users."

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