Pornhub apologized to "loyal visitors" blocked in two states this weekend.

PornHub just blocked Mississippi and Virginia. Texas will be blocked on September 1, and Montana in January.

  •  sfera   ( @sfera@beehaw.org ) English
    8•1 year ago

    Relevant quote:

    […] it’s important to understand that these laws are less about protecting minors, and more about restricting the open Internet. State-level regulations that primarily target adult sites are tremendously ineffective at keeping minors from accessing adult content.

    I’m not sure, besides pornography, what qualifies as adult content. Could things like Lemmy be affected by such laws?

    •  SkepticElliptic   ( @SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org ) English
      3•1 year ago

      States don’t have any standing to enforce a Lemmy instance unless it primarily does business in their state. Since PH does take money from residents of those states then they could theoretically be punished somehow.

      As long as your content isn’t hosted in that state and you don’t take payments from that state then there’s no mechanism for them to do anything to a random website.

      What are they going to do, try to enforce a state law on some instance owner that lives in the eu? Come over and try bitch!