PornHub disabled access to its site in Texas on Thursday. The reason is that the pornography website objects to the implementation of House Bill 1181.
Texas House Bill 1181 addresses age verification. The law went into effect on September 1. It requires commercial websites that publish sexually explicit or pornographic material to verify that users are over 18 years of age. Websites must ask for government-issued identification, digital identification, or transactional data from online visitors to make sure minors are not on the site.
The bill was signed into law in June.
House Bill 1181 asks websites that host explicit material to show a substance abuse hotline and a mental health helpline phone number. And, it requires three 14-point or larger notices that state the following:
1. “Pornography is potentially biologically addictive, is proven to harm human brain development,…
