Pornhub blocks access to entire state of Virginia

https://www.virginiamercury.com/2023/06/29/ahead-of-new-age-verification-law-pornhub-blocks-access-in-virginia/

by cuuupid • 3 years ago

59 40 3 years ago

lom888• 3 years ago

I had to throw my VPN on to see this, PornHub in Virginia now shows a message by Cherie Deville against age verification as it's currently being enforced.

tylerag• 3 years ago

And if you're curious who Cherie Deville is, here's a mostly-sfw page: https://wikifid.com/cherie-deville/

hulitu• 3 years ago

She earned an average income of around $70k to $90k per month. The net worth of Cherie Deville is approximately $5 Million dollars as of 2021.

She earns 90k but she is worth 5 Millions. Am i missing something ?

stevenicr• 3 years ago

How to quickly setup a VPN saas co?

There are plenty of adults who want to access these sites but will never upload a govt ID to one.

I could do some promos for VPNs, should I affiliate with one? Create a new service? Whitelabel from another service? I already imagine other ways to increase revenue while doing it.

paddw• 3 years ago

I've heard a lot of people start from whitelabel Nord

asjfka• 3 years ago

So, Utah and Virginia want their residents to surrender their private informations to shaddy websites and Louisiana is disposed to itself provides these informations.

hedora• 3 years ago

This similar Arkansas law is attracting lawsuits:

https://www.engadget.com/arkansas-passes-social-media-law-re...

Since DDG suggested searching for “arkansas age of consent” when I typed in “arkansas age verification”, I had to check:

https://www.criminaldefenselawyer.com/resources/arkansas-sta...

So, it’s legal to have sex with 15 year olds there, but you can’t show them porn till they turn 18.

bunga-bunga• 3 years ago

To be fair, unsupervised porn access isn’t great on young people, speaking from personal experience. I don’t think sex would necessarily be as damaging as porn (assuming condoms are used)

devwastaken2• 3 years ago

The easiest way to get people to turn their brains off is "think of the children".

My rights will not be infringed because of people that won't parent their kids. When that kind of thinking becomes reasonable then anything can be done for any reason just because children might have access because of poor parenting.

shortcake27• 3 years ago

Anecdotal “evidence” should not drive policy. Surely you understand how dangerous this is.

hinkley2• 3 years ago

No mirrors then?

Traubenfuchs3• 3 years ago

It's 14 in half of Europe by the way.

cinntaile2• 3 years ago

The lowest minimum age is 14 years, set in seven Member States: Austria, Bulgaria, Estonia, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Portugal.

Not even close to half. It's also not that clear cut and depends on the circumstances.

https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2017/mapping-minimum-ag...

WheelsAtLarge• 3 years ago

How are they doing the blocking. Is it by IP or geofencing? Neither of which is very accurate. How else can they do it?

hardware2win• 3 years ago

Does it need to be 100% accurate?

mock-possum3• 3 years ago

Of course not. It’s a stunt.

Mindwipe• 3 years ago

Ironically the Virginia Mercury also blocks access to me, presumably due to Cookie Consent.

pfannkuchen• 3 years ago

This is impressive! I didn’t realize Pornhub even had a paramilitary wing, let alone one this effective. Hopefully the national guard will be able to handle the situation!

kaashif• 3 years ago

I had a similar thought.

I think it should be "PornHub blocks access FOR the entire state of Virginia". Or maybe "from", but definitely not "to".

isaacfrond• 3 years ago

For Europeans where this website is blocked:

https://archive.is/gIbkY

philihp• 3 years ago

There's a lot of irony in this.

iso1631• 3 years ago

In 100 years time when history students look back at the triggers of the American Civil Wars, this event will be up there with Fort Sumter.

DeathArrow2• 3 years ago

I clicked the link to the article and I was welcomed with: "This site not available in your country"

At least, Pornhub doesn't block whole countries.

DeathArrow2• 3 years ago

I wonder how many people will be moving out of state because of this.

red-iron-pine• 3 years ago

probably not a ton. NoVA and a few other areas like Norfolk are wealthy because of tech and the military, and they'll just use VPNs. Rural VA still believes the Earth is 6000 years old and will embrace the new law.

mock-possum3• 3 years ago

I’m guessing zero

yellowseth• 3 years ago

A simple google search unblock pornhub will bring proxy sites that will unblock pornhub!! Very simple lol

Pornhub blocks access to entire state of Virginia

Related Stories