The Internet’s most popular network of sites is blocking users in five more states, as tensions rise between supporters of online age verification and pornographers.
Pornhub and its affiliates will block users in Indiana, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, and Nebraska due to age insurance requirements, leading to considerations about their users’ privacy, The Verge reports. The sites have already been blocked in seven other states.
States require users to upload identification documents or use a facial age estimate from a third-party age insurance provider, however, The Verge follows Pornhub in ignoring the latter option. Third-party providers can simply use a biometric facial age estimate to offload moderate assurance about users’ age. without storing your non-public information.
Pornography and other forms of virtual platforms have a best friend in the form of a U. S. federal ruling. Mississippi’s age verification law represents an unconstitutional restriction on access to online speech, the Washington Post reports.
The Mississippi law targets young online predators, but it has been criticized for being too general, leading to a lawsuit through NetChoice.
State Attorney General Lynn Fitch argued that the bill limited “non-expressive conduct,” but U. S. District Judge Sul Ozerden rejected that interpretation.
Texas will have to protect its HB 1181 before the U. S. Supreme Court, which will have to accept the challenge of a “free speech coalition” on constitutional grounds.
Law360 reports that the Supreme Court has already rejected an appeals court ruling upholding the law pending the final results of the legal challenge.
Meanwhile, in California, the Association of Age Verification Providers (AVPA) expects the state Senate Judiciary Committee to approve an amendment to the state’s age verification law as soon as Tuesday, which the advocacy organization said would render the law meaningless.
AB 3080 passed unanimously by the National Assembly, but is now an amendment by the pornography industry that limits the obligations of adult sites to block “users designated as minors through the device’s operating system. “Not a core service or peripheral of operating systems, the AVPA states in a LinkedIn post that the amendment would change the age verification requirement to “no legal entity. “
An editorial in Cybernews suggests that device-based age verification can work, but it comes with several security risks.
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