I don't have a law in my state that says such things so I don't have to provide ID whenever I visit any adult websites. The states I know are Louisiana and now North Carolina. If anyone lives in such a state can they tell me if they've done this for e621?

gayfur said:
I don't have a law in my state that says such things so I don't have to provide ID whenever I visit any adult websites. The states I know are Louisiana and now North Carolina. If anyone lives in such a state can they tell me if they've done this for e621?

If you want my opinion though I don't like these laws. It just adds a more tedious way to go on porn sites. I also don't think such rules can stop underage people cause they can just steal their parent's ID or something like that and even then I would also be worried about breaches that create identity theft.

You are... replying to yourself? You can edit your op if I am not remembering it wrong.

But yeah, it's a dumb law but you know, politicians...

Either way, I have been forced to get a VPN now so that I can continue to use this site. We will see what the future holds.

Hopefully, everyone up top (meaning the government) will recognize how dumb this is and quietly back down.

Wasn't there already a law (federal) stating that you had to put in metadata to allow porn-blockers to work? Or was that overturned? I mean, it actually makes more sense than this balkanizing quackery.

alphamule said:
Wasn't there already a law (federal) stating that you had to put in metadata to allow porn-blockers to work? Or was that overturned? I mean, it actually makes more sense than this balkanizing quackery.

Basically its legally unenforceable and a major privacy law violation.

Which is, under the most paranoid reading, the goal bc theyve been wanting to strike down what remains of privacy laws since the overturn of roe v wade.

ballofsunshine said:
Hopefully, everyone up top (meaning the government) will recognize how dumb this is and quietly back down.

They won’t.

Until it affects their son or one of their lobbyists lol

demesejha said:
Basically its legally unenforceable and a major privacy law violation.

Which is, under the most paranoid reading, the goal bc theyve been wanting to strike down what remains of privacy laws since the overturn of roe v wade.

Yeah, a tag in the HTML saying "this is porn" made too much sense (hell, I'd want that just so search engines know if it was on my site...), so we instead get this privacy-violating turd.

On the 20th of December didn't that new European law the DSA would effect Phub/Xvid/stripchat as they had become VLOP's and needed to now start confirming the age is 18 or older.

France, Germany and Britain and U.S. states including Utah and Texas and other states other then NC already apparently having this in effect about confirming your age.

What would be interesting here is if E621 ended up being blocked in the EU just to avoid the digital services act, though maybe it'll stay under the radar/VLOP conditions for now.

Just seems like a massive violation of everyone's privacy. Even using a VPN wouldn't work perfectly if most/all states adapt it.

We entering interesting times for freedom and animosity on the internet.

casmin7~ said:
... Even using a VPN wouldn't work perfectly if most/all states adapt it. ...

And then eventually all the good-and-honest porn sites will be pushed off the Internet from a lack of users and/or the expenses caused by the required verification process, leaving nothing but the ones that don't care for the law. Of course, those websites that don't care for the law in the first place are also going to have numerous other problems like not verifying performers to screen out underage content or revenge porn.

faucet said:
And then eventually all the good-and-honest porn sites will be pushed off the Internet from a lack of users and/or the expenses caused by the required verification process, leaving nothing but the ones that don't care for the law. Of course, those websites that don't care for the law in the first place are also going to have numerous other problems like not verifying performers to screen out underage content or revenge porn.

Essentially by the sounds of it, everything just gets worse because Governments want control. Instead of just leaving it up to us which has much better results for everyone.

Didn't it happen recently where PH required Verification for profiles and uploading or something? I just remember us losing thousands of Furry vids on that site as people who made them didn't want their ID's revealed. Now requiring them to even access the site is kinda insane.

faucet said:
And then eventually all the good-and-honest porn sites will be pushed off the Internet from a lack of users and/or the expenses caused by the required verification process, leaving nothing but the ones that don't care for the law. Of course, those websites that don't care for the law in the first place are also going to have numerous other problems like not verifying performers to screen out underage content or revenge porn.

I could borrow from some British-sourced foolishness and try to claim that porn implies consent (it doesn't, obviously, especially given the origin of the word).

I think that it might cause the reverse effect, Because since no one would want to verify their ID to acess adult content they will try to look for sketchier porn websites and you know where this is going