If you feel that some pornography site would be invading your privacy by asking for age verification, then just don't use it. It really is that easy.

No-one's forcing you to watch porn. It's not a necessary consumption.

And if you consider the abuse that is rife within the pornography industry, then really it is better to not increase demand for this material by consuming it.

>>And if you consider the abuse that is rife within the pornography industry, then really it is better to not increase demand for this material anyway.

The abuse within Hollywood is legendary at this point, hope you never go to cinema to see any films, better not to increase demand for this stuff /s

Like the privacy invading practice of requiring drug stores to check IDs before selling Playboys?

I'm sorry, Playboy is way tamer than Pornhub. There's no reason PH should have less strict access requirements. There's no 'right' to access porn anonymously. For goodness' sake, most states monitor your alcohol consumption by tying purchases to your ID!

If all drug stores everywhere colluded to record your ID permanently, the analogy might make sense.

There is a right to access porn anonymously if both parties consent. You need to prove that the government has an overriding need to insert itself in the middle.

If porn was like drugs, the analogy might make sense.

(If you make that equivalence, you're off the reservation. Or have never done drugs. What's next, video games cause school shootings, Mrs. Gore?)

Saying "Just bankrupt yourself to comply" isn't really an option. It's much like laws restricting abortion that are unsecretly trying to make it de facto illegal.

Perhaps they don't have a good enough business model then

How lovely of you to think of the pornographers' bank balances above all else.

> Like the privacy invading practice of requiring drug stores to check IDs before selling Playboys?

I’m curious what the result would have been if you needed to provide your ID to Playboy themselves and not merely the drug store.

There is no reason why pornhub could not create a system whereby they did not themselves need to see the ID

I'm sure they could, but would it satisfy all of the different state laws being passed, and will it satisfy any state laws that crop up in the future?

>>Like the privacy invading practice of requiring drug stores to check IDs before selling Playboys?

Wait, is that a thing in the US? Really?

>> For goodness' sake, most states monitor your alcohol consumption by tying purchases to your ID!

Again, that's a thing in the states? Wow, land of the free indeed.

Yes, several states like Virginia only sell liquor at government-owned stores. Others like Oregon require that liquor stores are separately run, and they'll scan your ID everytime and it'll get sent to the state alcohol bureau.

Of course then you also have states like Louisiana with drive-through Daquiri stores.