Submit Govt-Issued ID to Watch Porn: Louisiana Law to Combat Child Pornography Has Flaws

Like it or not, pornography is often at the forefront of audio-visual technology. But the State of Louisiana has taken a step that I thought I was going to see in the UK a few years back. Still, we have to think of the children....

Submit Govt-issued ID to Watch Porn: Louisiana Law to Combat Child Pornography Has Flaws

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Submit govt-issued ID to watch Porn: Louisiana law to combat child pornography has flaws- Technology News, Firstpost:

Although we know that most governments have an idea of what exactly do we use the internet for, imagine what would it feel like to have your government issues ID associated with the fact that you watch porn online. The state of Louisiana has enacted a new law that would require all users who want to consume porn over the internet, to verify their age by submitting government-issued such as a driving licence, etc.

The new policy, coded as Louisiana HB 142, requires sites composed of "thirty-three and one-third per cent" or more of pornographic content to verify that people accessing them are 18 or older. As a result one of the most popular pornographic sites in the US, PornHub, has already started asking its users to share a government-issued ID for access in the state of Louisiana.

Although there has been no official statement from any of the regulatory bodies or the distributors of porn in the US, users took to Twitter to share screenshots of what they are getting when they are searching for some explicit content.

As of now, Pornhub has started asking users to verify their age with AllpassTrust, which works with the Louisiana digital ID service LA Wallet. Users have confirmed the report using a VPN service, adding that other adult sites like XVideos didn't appear to require verification.

[...] Then, there is also the difficulty in implementing such a verification programme. A user, who is intent on consuming porn, but does not want to share his or her details, can easily bypass the requirement to share their IDs, by using a VPN and logging on from a different location altogether.

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