{"id":13632,"date":"2024-05-12T18:20:04","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T18:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13632"},"modified":"2024-05-12T18:20:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T18:20:05","slug":"states-keep-passing-unconstitutional-age-verification-laws-for-porn-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13632","title":{"rendered":"States Keep Passing Unconstitutional Age-Verification Laws for Porn Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;There will always be websites willing to provide porn without carding viewers. These platforms are also less likely to take other steps to stay within regulatory or creator-protective limits,&#8221;&nbsp;<em>Reason<\/em>&#8216;s Elizabeth Nolan Brown&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/03\/18\/pornhub-pulls-out-of-seventh-state\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>&nbsp;in March. &#8220;By driving viewers away from platforms like Pornhub\u2014sites that engage in at least some content moderation, are relatively receptive and responsive to authorities, and are willing to forge mutually beneficial partnerships with porn creators\u2014age verification laws could actually increase viewership of exploitative or otherwise undesirable content.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com wp-block-embed-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"olfh8jPCJu\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/04\/11\/states-keep-passing-unconstitutional-age-verification-laws-for-porn-sites\/\">States Keep Passing Unconstitutional Age-Verification Laws for Porn Sites<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;States Keep Passing Unconstitutional Age-Verification Laws for Porn Sites&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/04\/11\/states-keep-passing-unconstitutional-age-verification-laws-for-porn-sites\/embed\/#?secret=2QQ71q4OZH#?secret=olfh8jPCJu\" data-secret=\"olfh8jPCJu\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;&#8221;There will always be websites willing to provide porn without carding viewers. These platforms are also less likely to take other steps to stay within regulatory or creator-protective limits,&#8221; Reason&#8217;s Elizabeth Nolan Brown wrote in March. &#8220;By driving viewers away from platforms like Pornhub\u2014sites that engage in at least some content moderation, are relatively receptive and responsive to authorities, and are willing to forge mutually beneficial partnerships with porn creators\u2014age verification laws could actually increase viewership of exploitative or otherwise undesirable content.&#8221;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2024\/04\/11\/states-keep-passing-unconstitutional-age-verification-laws-for-porn-sites\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[111,906,1754,236,551,759,747],"class_list":["post-13632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-laws","tag-legislation","tag-porn","tag-regulation","tag-regulations","tag-states","tag-unconstitutional"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13633,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13632\/revisions\/13633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}