Age verification doesn’t work

Age verification will make porn websites go out of business. And this is likely what the legislators truly wanted.

Porn is partially protected by the constitution and it is politically impopular to tell people what they can't do.

Of course it won't. Maybe it will some of the current players. But I think they already have a lot of sites that use the same infra, just with different skins...

The state I live in already has age verification. Any site that is not based in the US - including the most popular one - just ignores it. The other sites can be accessed via a VPN.

Vought confirmed as much.

> "We came up with an idea on pornography to make it so that the porn companies bear the liability for the underage use, as opposed to the person who visits the website [having to] certify that 'I am 18," Vought told the undercover Centre for Climate Reporting staffers. "We've got a number of states that are passing this and then you know what happens is the porn company says 'We're not going to do business in your state'—which, of course, is entirely what we were after."

https://reason.com/2024/08/19/age-check-laws-are-a-back-door...