That is actually what is happening. Nothing in the Florida law blocks these sites, they just don’t want to deal with it.
Comment on Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 2 weeks agoit’s a matter of time before all the porn sites effectively go “we don’t want to deal with this legislation or with handling the PIIest of data. we’ll just IP block this whole region”
algorithmae@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 weeks ago
Ah, thx. I was under the impression that these porn sites get blocked... But it's the other way around, the porn sites block the users because they don't/cant't implement the regulations.... Thx for explaining.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 2 weeks ago
The regulations are essentially “you need to take the ID of everyone who uses your site and hand it over to the government to protect the children”. Privacy be damned, and I guarantee it’s going to become more and more widespread.
hendrik@palaver.p3x.de 2 weeks ago
I own some eID and it's supposed to do age verification for like a decade now. And they must have hired some proper computer science experts, because the idea was to impement this as a zero knowledge proof. You can proof your age to a porn site completely anonymously, without revealing anything (not even your age), just that you're above a certain age.
Of course no onr uses that system 😑
ego@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Just like accessing direct messages or any other form of personal data, it’s never actually about the children.
i_am_not_a_robot@discuss.tchncs.de 2 weeks ago
That’s the point of the regulations. Directly banning porn sites would be unconstitutional, but there’s a loophole.
DdCno1@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
Kind of how they went after marijuana in order to target Black people.