Kansas moves to join Texas and other states in requiring porn sites to verify people's ages
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Kansas is poised to require internet pornography sites to verify that visitors are adults. It would join Texas and a handful of other states despite concerns about privacy and how broadly the law could be applied.

In Kansas, some critics questioned whether the measure would violate free speech and press rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment...

But critics of the bill, mostly Democrats, argued that the law could be interpreted broadly enough that LGBTQ+ teenagers could not access information about sexual orientation or gender identity because the legal definition of sexual conduct includes acts of “homosexuality.”

  • buckykat [none/use name]
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    3 months ago

    Several states have already passed bills like this and the response of actual porn sites was to just geoblock the whole state. This results in a noticable spike in searches for "VPN" in those states the day the law went into effect. The latest one was Texas.