The number of states without access to Pornhub continues to grow. Nebraska is the latest state to pass an age verification law, causing the major porn site to shut down access to Cornhuskers.
Nebraska Legislative Bill 1092 took effect Friday, requiring websites that display adult content to verify the age of their users. This usually means that some form of identification needs to be uploaded to the website to confirm that the person using the website is 18 years of age or older. According to the Nebraska Examiner, Pornhub parent company Aylo refuses to obtain such personal files from its users, so, as it has done in Texas and other states, it will Access to the porn site will be blocked starting Monday.
“Aylo has publicly supported user age verification for years, but we believe any relevant laws must protect user security and privacy and must effectively protect children from accessing adult-oriented content,” the company told Gizmodo in April. “Unfortunately, the way many jurisdictions around the world have chosen to implement age verification is ineffective, arbitrary and dangerous. Any regulation that requires hundreds of thousands of adult websites to collect large amounts of highly sensitive personal information puts user security at risk.
Aylo emphasizes that it does not want minors to see adult content, but the company claims users will only visit sites that do not comply with the law. VPNs are also a way to bypass age verification laws, and searches for VPNs tend to increase in states that pass such laws.
Louisiana is the first state to pass an age verification law, which takes effect in early 2023. The Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Free Speech Alliance v. Paxton in the fall.
