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Almost the entire US South is now being blocked by Pornhub (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Speaking of which, can anyone please tell me why XHamster now requires a Virgina ID to visit the website, even though I live nowhere near that shithole?

  1. Why does it have to be a Virginia ID specifically?
  2. How the hell am I going to get a Virginia ID from out of state?
  3. Why would anyone give a porn site their ID to begin with? That's a major invasion of privacy.
[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)
  1. It thinks your connection comes from Virginia for some reason. Specifically, it thinks your public IP geomaps there. You can use https://whatismyipaddress.com/ to see where their database would pin it.
  2. You can't
  3. They really shouldn't. But the sites are asking for them because they are required, by law. The alternative is to block those connections, as PornHub decided to do.

Such laws now exist in Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Tennessee as well.

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