As of this week, half of the states in the U.S. are under restrictive age verification laws that require adults to hand over their biometric and personal identification to access legal porn.
Missouri became the 25th state to enact its own age verification law on Sunday. As it’s done in multiple other states, Pornhub and its network of sister sites—some of the largest adult content platforms in the world—pulled service in Missouri, replacing their homepages with a video of performer Cherie DeVille speaking about the privacy risks and chilling effects of age verification.
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Haha not if you use a VPN or international websites or pirate that shit.
Some states have already begun to require sites to detect connections from VPNs and block them.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/lawmakers-want-ban-vpns-and-they-have-no-idea-what-theyre-doing
If you VPN into the UK or Australia, you’ll run into the same restrictions.
As more countries pass this kind of legislation, VPNs become less and less of a solution, and they were only ever a solution for people who can afford them.
That means there’s more money to be made by other more obscure countries, right?
The problem is that these kinds of laws are becoming widespread. When they become the norm, simply VPN’ing to a different country won’t save you, because there won’t be any “safe” countries.
Shit like this is why I unironically considered spinning up a NSFW Jellyfin instance. At least if I save the degen content like a data hoarder, they can’t legislate away my access.
I disagree. That would encourage more VPN companies to open up abroad. Two hundred countries and many don’t care what others think.
@mic_check_one_two @fodor move all the internet over tor
Yes I would agree. But one big issue on tor. Do not try and lookup nsfw. In minutes you find shit you absolutely dont want…
they are going after vpn next, there are several states talking about that. Considering that microsoft is working on their super ai windows, we can bet they are gonna be reporting everything you do to big brother.