Adult video site Pornhub blocks most access from southern states
Pornhub, a well-known adult video distribution site, is opposed to 'laws requiring age verification when viewing adult sites' and blocks access from states that have enacted such laws. By the end of 2024, the number of states that have blocked it has risen to 17, with most of the so-called 'southern' states being blocked.
Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the US South
Pornhub is now blocked in these 17 US states
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/01/02/pornhub-us-states-blocked/
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The trigger for Pornhub's access blocking was the enactment of a law in Louisiana on January 1, 2023, which states that 'any entity operating a website that publishes or distributes content that is harmful to minors shall be liable unless it implements reasonable measures to verify the age of users.'
The law defines 'material that is harmful to minors' as 'material that appeals to lascivious interest,' and lists specific body parts as 'pubic hair, anus, vulva, genitals, or female nipples,' and acts as 'contact or caressing of the breasts, nipples, buttocks, anus, or genitals, sexual intercourse, masturbation, homosexuality, bestiality, oral sex, flogging, defecation, exposure, and other sexual acts.'
Pornhub introduced an age verification system to comply with this law, but users fled to pirate sites, resulting in a drop in traffic of about 80%.
That's why, when a similar law came into effect in Utah in May 2023, we objected to the situation in which law-abiding platforms were at a disadvantage and decided to block access until a real solution was presented.
Pornhub blocks all access from Utah - GIGAZINE
Since then, Pornhub has blocked access from each state that has passed a similar 'age verification law for platforms.' The states that have been blocked are Virginia, Montana, North Carolina, Arkansas, Utah, Mississippi, Texas, Nebraska, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana, Alabama, Oklahoma, Florida, Tennessee, and South Carolina. A similar law is expected to be passed in Georgia in July 2025.
The map below, created by news site 404media, shows the states where Pornhub is blocked in black, Georgia in grey, and Louisiana in orange, which requires ID to verify age.
The map below shows the states known as the 'South.' The dark areas are generally included in the 'South,' and the shaded areas are areas that may not be included in the South. Comparing this with the map above, we can see that Pornhub blocks access from almost all of the 'South.'
However, the age verification law is not only expanding, but Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs rejected the bill in April 2024 without signing it.
HB2586_Veto_Letter | DocumentCloud
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24537685-hb2586_veto_letter/
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