Finally, someone has addressed a problem that has gone ignored for too long, which has already done more damage to a few generations than this country needed. A bipartisan bill has been passed by both parties in Louisiana that has crippled one of the porn industry’s top producers, PornHub.
Something as simple as requiring the infamous website to request government ID before signing up. This action stopped numerous underage viewers from accessing pornography. “As Stabile explained, age-verification laws make traffic to porn sites drop precipitously. It turns out, unsurprisingly, that nobody wants to upload their driver’s license or passport before watching porn. And, as Stabile added, at a cost to the operators of around 65 cents per verification, age verification is effectively “business-killing.”
Of course, porn industry advocates went straight to the “free speech,” defense, which is not a defense at all, but an excuse to peddle smut to anyone horny enough and has a debit card. No sympathy for all the perverts, pedophiles, potential rapist, or lust-filled sinners who find thrills in watching people commit acts of fornication and adultery, even involving children.
“The Free Speech Coalition, the trade group for the adult industry, has already sued Louisiana and Utah, and the rest of the states might be next. “I can’t stress enough that this is First Amendment protected speech,” warned Mike Stabile, director of public affairs for the Free Speech Coalition. As Stabile theorizes, “the legislators have, you know, chosen this as a way to start being able to police the open internet and start to wall it off.”
Before the passing of the bill, “Pornhub, the YouTube of pornography, gets more global users than Amazon or Netflix. In 2019, the last year Pornhub released its data, the site was visited 42 billion times, or 115 million times each day.” And since the bill, “According to Ethical Capital Partners, the private equity company that owns Pornhub, traffic in Louisiana has dropped 80 percent.”
But the damage has already been done while politicians were engulfed in bribes and their own private sex and cocaine parties, teenage boys have suffered the most. Causing a break in normal relations with their female counterparts and neutralizing stages of natural growth for young men, at their own admission, “By the time we were 14 (and many of us younger), we had started watching porn on the internet. Regularly. We had favorite porn stars and we argued over their merits just the way we talked about professional football players we had on our fantasy football teams. To us, it didn’t seem weird that we had seen videos of strangers having rough sex before we had our first kiss. But it was precisely our blasé attitude that alarmed Dines and others who have detailed the many ills that childhood exposure to porn may have wrought, including record numbers of young men having erectile dysfunction. Others have disagreed, disputing the causal link to porn, while not disputing the absurd rise in sexually dysfunctional young men.”
“Pornography is creating a public health crisis and having a corroding influence on minors,” asserts the bill that state Rep. Laurie Schlegel introduced. Almost no one in the capitol in Baton Rouge disputes the statement; the bill sailed through the Louisiana House 96-1 and the State Senate 34-0. The bill holds pornography websites liable unless the websites “perform reasonable age verification methods” – in short, requiring users to show government ID to prove they are 18 or older. Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards, no fan of the legislature’s Republican super-majority, signed the bill about a week after it arrived on his desk.
As the Louisiana law posits, “Pornography may also impact brain development and functioning, contribute to emotional and medical illnesses, shape deviant sexual arousal, and lead to difficulty in forming or maintaining positive, intimate relationships, as well as promoting problematic or harmful sexual behaviors and addiction.”
To be clear, Pornhub verifies the age of the half a million people who upload content on its site, a policy it implemented following a Nicholas Kristof piece in the New York Times exposing how the website was repeatedly hosting videos of minors being raped, which inspired Visa and MasterCard to stop processing payments on the site. But the site does not verify the ages of the billions of people who use the site and with the exception of Louisiana, it doesn’t plan to start. Rather than ask users to upload their government-issued identification, Pornhub is simply choosing not to offer service at all, citing issues of unconstitutionality, ineffectiveness and privacy risks.”
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