Utah residents who went to Pornhub this week got a message informing them that the company had blocked the entire state from accessing its website — a protest of a new law requiring users to prove their age with government-issued identification cards.
Pornhub, one of the most popular pornography websites on the internet, criticized the requirement as ineffective, unfair and an invasion of privacy, while saying that it already boasted some of the most robust safeguards of any adult-content website on the internet.
A 1½-minute video of adult film actress Cherie DeVille reading the message also greets Utah’s Pornhub users. “You should be able to have to prove you’re an adult to view pornography, because it’s illegal for children to view it,” he said, while noting that he’d already received 20 emails lambasting the legislation as unconstitutional.
Last year, Louisiana enacted a similar law to the one taking effect in Utah. Although Pornhub complied with that law, the website saw traffic from Louisiana-based users plunge by about 80 percent, a company spokesperson said. It’s unlikely the users who fled stopped looking for adult content but opted for sites with fewer safeguards, the spokesperson added.
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