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By Gavin Boyle
Following its decisions in other states that implemented similar legislation, Pornhub has ceased its operations in Arizona after a state law passed requiring adult websites to verify their users’ age.
“It just really stood out as something that was a big positive to try to give parents one more tool to help protect their children,” said State Representative Nick Kupper, who helped introduce the law.
The legislation mirrors that of 23 other states who have passed similar laws to protect children from pornography. Pornhub has responded in a similar manner in each of these states, blocking users from accessing the site while championing free speech.
Pornhub keeps ceasing operation in every state that requires age verification
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“To be clear, we have publicly supported age verification for years, but we believe that any law to this effect must preserve user safety and privacy, and must effectively protect children from accessing content intended for adults,” Pornhub’s parent company Aylo said in a statement responding to the Arizona bill becoming law.
“Unfortunately, the way many jurisdictions worldwide have chosen to implement age verification is ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous. Any regulations that require hundred of thousands of adult sites to collect significant amount of highly sensitive personal information is putting user safety in jeopardy.”
Should pornography be banned?
In reality, sites like Pornhub have long profited from getting young users hooked and are unwilling to continue to operate when they can only serve an adult audience. Despite the company’s best efforts to overturn these laws, their legality has been upheld by the Supreme Court, which made a monumental decision on this topic earlier this year.
“The First Amendment leaves undisturbed States’ traditional power to prevent minors from accessing speech that is obscene from their perspectives,” Justice Clarence Thomas said when delivering the ruling. “That power includes the power to require proof of age before an individual can access such speech. It follows that no person — adult or child — has a First Amendment right to access such speech without first submitting proof of age.”
“With the rise of the smartphone and instant streaming, many adolescents can now access vast libraries of video content — both benign and obscene — at almost any time and place, with an ease that would have been unimaginable at the time of Reno and Ashcroft II (a former ruling that challenged the legality of age-verification laws),” Thomas continued.
Given how harmful pornography is for people of all ages, it is encouraging to see more and more states require age verification for the site – which is leading the the entire industry being prohibited as a result.
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