Well, there isn’t much Pornhub can do to lawmakers. All they can do is block users in areas that elect those lawmakers, and hope those users take it out on those lawmakers. Possibly by electing different ones in the future who will change that law.

It’s sort of the same logic as striking or protesting; you can’t affect the people responsible directly, so you do something that inconveniences regular people who will then hopefully take it out on the people responsible in one way or another.

Seems like a a pretty good way to communicate to your possibly politically unengaged customers why something is happening to me.

I’d be willing to bet some of their users are lawmakers.

Lawmakers almost certainly use PornHub too whether or not they’ll admit to it publicly, so it’s an incredibly effective way to get them to knock it off