THE CENTER SQUARE—The pornography website Pornhub soon will be inaccessible in 13 states after lawmakers passed a flurry of restrictions for social media and other internet sites.
The bills require certain age-verification measures for websites hosting adult content.
A total of 16 states—Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Virginia—approved legislation requiring pornographic websites to ask users to prove they are over 18 years old.
Each state’s legislation has unique provisions, but the overarching principle remains similar: Websites with material deemed “harmful to minors” must verify users’ ages through approved technology or databases.
Kansas, for instance, enacted a law effective July 1 mandating that websites where at least 25% of…
