Hot or Not Pornhub will block access for Floridians starting January 1st 2025

[CyberHustler]

Restrictions will take place in protest of the state's new age verification requirements.

No one in Florida will be able to access Pornhub, the most trafficked pornography website worldwide, as of Jan. 1.

Officials with Aylo, the parent company to the site, confirmed it will deny access for all users geo-located in the state. An email from the company made clear the restriction will happen in protest of new age verification requirements imposed by a state law (HB 3) going into effect at the start of 2025.

“Unfortunately, the way many jurisdictions worldwide, including Florida, have chosen to implement age verification is ineffective, haphazard and dangerous,” reads an email from Aylo. “Any regulations that require hundreds of thousands of adult sites to collect significant amounts of highly sensitive personal information is putting user safety in jeopardy. Moreover, as experience has demonstrated, unless properly enforced, users will simply access non-compliant sites or find other methods of evading these laws.”

The new statute imposes age verification requirements on pornography websites and any other publishers of content known to be “harmful to minors.”

Lawmakers scoffed at the web publisher’s tactic.

“The fact that they’ve chosen to shut down instead of complying to ensure that children aren’t accessing their site tells us exactly who their real target audience is,” said state Rep. Chase Tramont, a Port Orange Republican and the prime sponsor for the age verification bill passed this year.

“To be clear, Aylo has publicly supported age verification of users for years,” the email reads, “but we believe that any law to this effect must preserve user safety and privacy, and must effectively protect children from accessing content intended for adults.”

Pornography sites have previously restricted access to content in protest of similar laws. Aylo noted that Pornhub has also tried to comply with laws in other states only to see users in those jurisdictions flock to less reputable sources for titillation.

“We have seen how this scenario plays out in the United States. In Louisiana last year, Pornhub was one of the few sites to comply with the new law,” Aylo’s email reads. “Since then, our traffic in Louisiana dropped approximately 80%. These people did not stop looking for porn. They just migrated to darker corners of the internet that don’t ask users to verify age, that don’t follow the law, that don’t take user safety seriously, and that often don’t even moderate content. In practice, the laws have just made the internet more dangerous for adults and children.”

Aylo reiterated a position it held as Florida’s law was being debated, that age verification requirements should occur at the device-level, such as requirements for smartphone manufacturers to limit access.

“The best solution to make the internet safer, preserve user privacy, and prevent children from accessing adult content is performing age verification at the source: on the device,” the Aylo email reads.

“The technology to accomplish this exists today. What is required is the political and social will to make it happen. We are eager to be part of this solution and are happy to collaborate with government, civil society and tech partners to arrive at an effective device-based age verification solution. In addition, many devices already offer free and easy-to-use parental control features that can prevent children from accessing adult content without risking the disclosure of sensitive user data.”

Rep. Fiona McFarland, a Sarasota Republican, questioned the company’s sincerity in terms of Florida’s best interest.

“If a company can’t abide by Florida laws, then they can’t do business here,” she said.

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[TheLegacy]

What's interesting is that in Muslim countries they have a no porn policy with religious police walking about making sure everyone is in line and women have no say over their bodies......
Funny to see America is heading that way without realizing it.

[Retiree]

Originally Posted by TheLegacy

What's interesting is that in Muslim countries they have a no porn policy with religious police walking about making sure everyone is in line and women have no say over their bodies......
Funny to see America is heading that way without realizing it.

Most muslim countries are pretty liberal these days...you would be surprised.

[BTPs]

Originally Posted by TheLegacy

What's interesting is that in Muslim countries they have a no porn policy with religious police walking about making sure everyone is in line and women have no say over their bodies......
Funny to see America is heading that way without realizing it.

No, they realize it. Rules for the, not for me. It's like the book banning. They say it's for elementary students, but I keep seeing high school book bans. Scapegoat tactics in a never ending class war.

[mopek1]

Originally Posted by TheLegacy

What's interesting is that in Muslim countries they have a no porn policy with religious police walking about making sure everyone is in line and women have no say over their bodies......
Funny to see America is heading that way without realizing it.

I've criticized the left for about 10 years now for going too far.

It looks like it's the right's turn now (worldwide) to start the same game.

Every 10-15 years the pendulum swings and one side gets too much power., because we vote that way in response to one side getting too much power.

[Beaver1]

I would sell every IP and email address, browser, connection and login data that has ever accessed my site or server
from a government or official office worldwide, to the highest-bidding newspaper publisher or television station,
in order to piss off these censorship wankers and pseudo moral apostles.

The public would probably be very surprised which politician, judge, teacher, civil servant, policeman and priest watches porn during working hours!

After the Ashley Madison database was hacked, there was a lot of silence on censorship calls for a while!

Greetings Beaver

[CaptainHowdy]

Originally Posted by Beaver1

I would sell every IP and email address, browser, connection and login data that has ever accessed my site or server
from a government or official office worldwide, to the highest-bidding newspaper publisher or television station,
in order to piss off these censorship wankers and pseudo moral apostles.

The public would probably be very surprised which politician, judge, teacher, civil servant, policeman and priest watches porn during working hours!

After the Ashley Madison database was hacked, there was a lot of silence on censorship calls for a while!

Greetings Beaver

[pornmasta]

Originally Posted by Beaver1

I would sell every IP and email address, browser, connection and login data that has ever accessed my site or server
from a government or official office worldwide, to the highest-bidding newspaper publisher or television station,
in order to piss off these censorship wankers and pseudo moral apostles.

The public would probably be very surprised which politician, judge, teacher, civil servant, policeman and priest watches porn during working hours!

After the Ashley Madison database was hacked, there was a lot of silence on censorship calls for a while!

Greetings Beaver

The "mainstream" doesn't care about privacy.
Imo adult should.
This is how people trust you.
Users don't want to give their data because it's unsafe.

Also if you drop a list of data, suggesting that civil workers are not working (besides the police, i guess), the public will see this as an additional reason to ban porn: it wastes tax payer's money...

[pornmasta]

Originally Posted by Retiree

Most muslim countries are pretty liberal these days...you would be surprised.

No shit ? 🤭

[ross bleustein]

Guys

are there any tools ( software, etc ) that can help verification, that is , if someone is willing to submit info ???


any information, would be appreciated


Thank you


[email protected]

[Rochard]

When I was GM at Playboy ICS we had a list of certain zip codes we were not allowed to sell porn to. That was a long time ago.

[celandina]

PornHub are idiots

[mopek1]

Originally Posted by Retiree

Most muslim countries are pretty liberal these days...you would be surprised.

Some are. But many are still tyrannically religious like the gulf states etc.

[escorpio]

I've got three letters for you Florida wankers...VPN.

[Yamato]

Originally Posted by escorpio

I've got three letters for you Florida wankers...VPN.

I think 90% of Floridians never heard that word. Its only used by rich professional gay guys in S. Florida. The rest are either 90 years old or Trump supporting Alabamians who can barely spell their cousin's name on their marriage certificate.

[Beaver1]

Originally Posted by pornmasta

The "mainstream" doesn't care about privacy.
Imo adult should.
This is how people trust you.

Basically I agree with you!
The only question is what will be left of a trustworthy porn industry after it has been blocked in all states?

Greetings Beaver

[Look Chang]

Originally Posted by Retiree

Most muslim countries are pretty liberal these days...you would be surprised.

Sure !

[INever]

What VPN (with an affiliate program) to push in FL?

[Retiree]

Originally Posted by Look Chang

[Killswitch]

lmfao like legit, this is hilarious to me. Fucking idiots. (Florida, not Pornhub)