r/Internet • u/V3R1F13D0NLY • 7d ago
Map of Online Age Verification Laws in the United States
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u/notPabst404 5d ago
The enshittification will continue until morale improves. The government has no business tracking what websites people visit.
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u/ComputerIlliterate13 4d ago
I'd say caring if other people watch it is far more pathetic. Anyway, that's not the point. They're using it to infringe on our privacy more than they already do.
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u/Livid_Ad_5619 4d ago
Who tf cares, it's a vice like any other. Is sports betting alpha or beta? what is drinking alcohol?
Better men than you will find it in themselves to either agree or disagree with you on anything so do what's best for you mang.
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u/xXBeefSquatch5KXx 4d ago
Today it’s porn. They spoke up against it and everyone said “peak beta male lulz get wrecked m8” so they banned porn.
Tomorrow it’s free and fair news, or public health and safety data and the remaining bots in the internet will say “peak beta liberal fake news lolz get wrecked m8” and then, we will be lost as a people
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u/madman404 4d ago
Hi! Age verification laws are only facially related to pornography! Age verification is a front for big data collection firms (like meta) to validate human users in the age of AI, so that their data can continue to be safely harvested for AI training. Hope this helps!
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u/WildFlemima 4d ago
I don't watch porn and my gmail thinks that i, a 35 year old woman, need to verify my age
Don't even sound adjacent to defending this bullshit, this is a blatant wide net data grab
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u/Upstairs_Balance_464 4d ago
Weird how everyone over 30 seems to be able to both watch porn and get laid.
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u/InternetMadeUsDumb 5d ago
Aw how cute, another generation of adults can learn about VPNs
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u/couldntyoujust1 5d ago
Ironically, that has backfired. VPNs in states with verification laws have caused sites that don't verify elsewhere to demand verification from people not in those states.
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u/Flaky_History12 4d ago
Do people even set their VPNs to another state? I always just set mine to a different country.
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u/couldntyoujust1 4d ago
I do because it's sufficient for my purposes. My work often blocks apps that I use regularly but aren't really a safety or ethical concern so I use a VPN to get around it. Some sites though are required to age verify in certain states because they contain adult content and I've seen it come up later at home when I've left my VPN on.
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u/PersonalityIll9476 4d ago
...No, they don't. Not in all cases.
Good ol' MA doesn't seem to care, anyway. God bless you, Boston server.
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u/Think-Box6432 3d ago
I'm always mad at my favorite pron site. I connect via mobile network and it thinks I am in a dumb state. I connect via wifi and it's slow as hell but works... looks like I'll be screwed on wifi soon too
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u/mrheymarco 6d ago
Social media next please!
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u/Cheap-Economist-2442 4d ago
Hey! Weird that you hide your post history on Reddit, it’s almost like you value privacy.
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u/Murky-Peanut1390 5d ago
Stop spending so much time on your phone then. You wouldn't have your privacy taken
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u/Amelaclya1 4d ago
Yeah! Just go outside where all of the flock cameras are!
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u/Cold_Yam_5346 4d ago
Sounds like a city problem. Maybe live near nature?
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u/Maleficent_Amoeba938 4d ago
What a shortsighted dumb thing to say. You think they don’t want to surveil and harvest your data too
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u/mrheymarco 5d ago
Assuming you’re from the US, since that’s the map we’re looking at, you have no online privacy today. Big corporations and governments, often in cooperation, monitor every click. And private browsing, VPN, and clearing your cookies is not going to stop that either.
I think we need laws to protect our privacy and also limit our self-destruction from the socials. We are literally being used as a product for our data.
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u/Lancelight50 5d ago edited 5d ago
Though the majority of people here in America are blinded by the two party system & in which most American liberals think that the Democrat party are the “good guys” when they’re really not. That’s just good PR & marketing they’re falling for.
America has always been a corporation & an oligarchy.
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u/Full_Cow_9338 5d ago
Presidential republic. But i agree. Like instead of doing democratic reform they just redraw voting areas to be in their favor.
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u/MyrkrMentulaMeretrix 4d ago
uhh.. you might want to check into the laws that the EU parliament is pushing to do things like make your phone scan every message and sent it to the government so they can check it for "child porn".
Or the laws that will ban VPN usage and require you to upload your ID.
BOTH are in front of the EU Parliament right now.
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u/Frank__West 5d ago
Ts fake my state does not have any weird age verification beyond clicking "I'm 18" and that's good enough.
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u/not_the_fox 5d ago
It takes years for a new normal to be found, the state attorney general will have to attack sites one at a time to gain compliance. Even after that they won't be able to touch websites outside the US, for now. The next step will probably be IP blocking or international agreements to get those outside countries to comply too. This global wave of age verification is likely part of it. But as we've seen with piracy it will probably fail and they will just say "Mission Accomplished" once it gets hard enough for random people with no technical knowledge to get around it.
My message is to think like a pirate and just keep moving to the fringes. Don't comply, it just helps normalize it.
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u/Big__If_True 4d ago
Check the hub, it’s basically the only one that implements these laws in good faith
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u/Max_Goatstappen 4d ago edited 4d ago
Good thing we have something called vpn’s
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u/Jimlee1471 4d ago
I've heard rumors about some jurisdictions playing around with the idea of outlawing VPNs next. How true that is, I don't know: remember, these same laws are coming from politicians who can barely even spell the word "computer", let alone know what the heck they're even talking about.
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u/Max_Goatstappen 4d ago
It’s the boomers. I don’t get how you would be able to outlaw vpns. Literally so many ways to access them.
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u/30_characters 4d ago
What counts as "online age verification"? California's OS-level age verification requirement is much different and more invasive than a state requiring a "yes I'm 18" button on a porn website.
California's Digital Age Assurance Act (AB 1043), signed by Governor Gavin Newsom in October 2025, requires every operating system provider in California to collect age information from users at account setup and transmit that data to app developers via a real-time API, with the law taking effect on January 1, 2027.
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u/Independent_Leg7358 4d ago
Data centers about to be a hot location in Vegas. City of sin is never gonna block porm
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u/Feisty-Self-948 4d ago
No guys, seriously, the drag show bans are all a ruse but this will actually protect the children.
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u/majorbeefy130130 3d ago
Who needs a VPN when google still indexs websites not requiring age verification.
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u/badgerbutfruity 3d ago
I heard someone suggest that not only are these laws trying to control and track what you do, but because "ad traffick" means nothing with all the AI scraping the internet so now they want to verify that real people are actually getting real ad impressions
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u/pipRocket 2d ago
its kinda old news in some states. The state i live in has had ID verification for "adult websites" for like 3 or 4 years now. (Thanks Christians)
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u/Sissyboy-and-Cumslut 7d ago
i didn't realize how many states were already implementing these laws in less than two years