They are not complying with the law, if they were complying with the law they would be doing age verification and collecting everyone’s information in a masturbator base.
Comment on New Arizona law to restrict online porn access; Pornhub will block state
JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 hours agoI wouldn’t really describe complying with a law as taking a stand against it. Pornhub blocks all US states which require ID verification.
hector@lemmy.today 7 hours ago
JackbyDev@programming.dev 6 hours ago
They are not displaying content that requires age verification in those jurisdictions. That’s compliant.
hector@lemmy.today 6 hours ago
Exactly, they are not doing the age verification. What would you have them do?
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 hours ago
I’m not “having them do” anything, I’m saying that if you don’t serve content that requires age verification in jurisdictions where that content requires age verification then that’s complying with the law. That’s it.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Which is ridiculous if you think about it. The whole point of a website is that the visitor goes to them. Unless their servers are located in a place that place should have no jurisdiction or authority over them whatsoever.
JackbyDev@programming.dev 2 hours ago
Yeah, I their their proposed option of using standardized tags for content blockers for parents to use is much more sensible. But this law isn’t about protecting children, it’s about control and seeing what they can get away with. With the stir about transgender people being classified as nihilistic violent extremists the idea of seeing discussion of LGBT topics online as “obscene” and requiring submitting your ID to do is not far fetched.