It’s part protest, part practical solution. If I was one of these sites, I wouldn’t want to bother spending money figuring out the best way to verify age when you can just ban everyone from those states and blame the politicians (it is their fault the law exists).
And one good thing it has done is drive at least some of those people to VPNs, which has to make spying on what people are doing a lot more difficult for ISPs and the government.
Just to add: Pornhub supports age verification on device. What they’re against is collective a trove of user data that can (and probably will be) hacked.
I imagine all of this is explained to them in the “guilt trip” OP referenced but probably didn’t read.
Otherwise, seems like an ineffective way to protest.
It’s part protest, part practical solution. If I was one of these sites, I wouldn’t want to bother spending money figuring out the best way to verify age when you can just ban everyone from those states and blame the politicians (it is their fault the law exists).
And one good thing it has done is drive at least some of those people to VPNs, which has to make spying on what people are doing a lot more difficult for ISPs and the government.
Just to add: Pornhub supports age verification on device. What they’re against is collective a trove of user data that can (and probably will be) hacked.