PornHub traffic in Louisiana drops 80% after digital ID requirement
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I know people are going to freak out about digital ID requirements but it's important to remember that porn has age restrictions in real life and you're required to show ID proving that you're +18yrs old to view/purchase porn.
It really was only a matter of time before they would start checking for age on the Internet.
Also, this isn't anything new. If you've ever tried buying a firearm or nicotine products online, you're required to prove your age - just like in person. I, personally, have submitted an ID to purchase nicotine products.
I actually found it a bit hypocritical that porn had no age check while firearms/nicotine did because you at least have to make a purchase in the case of the latter, while porn can be found for free.
And, at the end of the day, you will still be able to find free porn all over the internet, so it's just the major sites like PornHub are gonna be taken down a notch.
That's probably why it didn't require an ID. One required a physical product to be shipped to a real address, the other was a video on the internet.
I can assume pretty confidently that if you tried to order a physical porn DVD to your house from any real company, it would have some form of ID check on it too.
IMO I don't think that's it.
If you were to pay for online porn, there would still be a delivery mechanism, just not a physical copy.
And, obviously, there's never been age verification for online porn until now.
The way it used to work is, just like with nicotine products, if you paid for it, there was a reasonable expectation that you were old enough to purchase it.
I'm pretty sure use of a credit card was the age verification, which works as well as the ID check now so I would rather they just required that. $1 charge or a test charge to make it basically free. It sidesteps the government overreach concerns.