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Pornhub goes dark in Arkansas after age verification law kicks in::Pornhub operator MindGeek has blocked all users in Arkansas from the site after the state’s new age verification law went into effect.

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[–] Ilovethebomb@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Who in their right mind would expect a free porn site to go to this level of hassle?

Or is this a puritanical measure in disguise?

[–] Spacemanspliff@midwest.social 91 points 1 year ago (7 children)

It's the second one. I saw article where they talked how Florida was the first to pass it, pornhub put time and money into developing what they needed to comply and saw a 90% decrease in traffic because nobody wants to hand over their ID for free porn.

[–] remus@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After MindGeek started complying with the Louisiana law earlier this year, the company said traffic dropped by 80 percent.

It’s literally in the linked article lol

[–] Lem453@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago

Pornhub would make more money simply starting a vpn service rather than try to gather IDs

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