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Anonymous09/29/25, 02:32No.1443097Arizona Enacts Law Mandating Biometric Digital ID Age Checks on Adult Sites

https://reclaimthenet.org/arizona-enacts-law-mandating-biometric-digital-id-age-checks-on-adult-sites Arizona is set to activate a controversial law that requires adult websites to implement digital ID age checks for users, including biometric verification. Starting Friday, any site with more than one-third of its content labeled as "harmful" to minors must restrict access to adults who can verify their age through systems that may involve uploading selfies and matching them to government-issued ID. Under House Bill 2112, parents gain the power to take legal action against platforms that fail to comply. They can seek $10,000 in damages for each day a site remains accessible to minors without proper screening. Courts may also issue fines of up to $250,000 if a lack of verification leads to a minor accessing the content. While supporters frame the measure as a necessary step to keep children away from adult material, privacy concerns remain front and center. The process of submitting personal identification data raises the risk of surveillance, identity theft, and misuse of sensitive information. Lawmakers attempted to address those issues by adding a clause that prohibits verification providers from storing user data. The legislation also imposes $10,000 penalties for any instance of sharing information with federal, state, or local authorities. One of the strongest responses has come from Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub. The company has stated it will block access to its services in Arizona, mirroring its actions in 21 other states where similar laws have taken effect.

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Anon09/29/25, 02:37No.1443104

Aylo has remained opposed to biometric verification mandates and has pulled out of every jurisdiction that enforces them.The Free Speech Coalition, a trade group representing sites, argues the responsibility for verifying user age should fall on technology platforms or at the device level, not on content creators or distributors."There are far fewer issues in terms of getting consumers to upload their ID because they're not uploading it every time they're going to an adult site," said the Coalition's spokesperson, Michael Stabile.He pointed to parental controls as a more practical approach than repeated identity checks.However, that argument has already lost ground in court.In the Texas case Paxton v. Free Speech Coalition, the US Supreme Court declined to take up the industry's challenge, leaving similar legislation intact and likely weakening any comparable legal efforts.Representative Nick Kupper, who backed the Arizona law, acknowledged that it won't completely prevent minors from accessing explicit content.He admitted that some children will still find workarounds using VPNs, shared devices, or offline material. "We as the government are not making that call," he said. "It will ultimately be up to the courts to make the call."Civil liberties groups argue this creates a dangerous precedent, with the potential to suppress lawful content under the guise of protection.

Anon09/29/25, 03:16No.1443116

Arizonians, pull out your coom lotion and ready your cum stockings because I hear this will be overturned by Christmas.

Anon09/29/25, 06:03No.1443149

What does biometrics mean? Can I show a face ID of my grandpa and then pass?

Anon09/29/25, 06:07No.1443151

So they're doing what Texas and Florida already have. Big whoop.

Anon09/29/25, 07:01No.1443159

>The bill, championed by Republican Rep. Nick Kupper, passed with support from the Republican majority. “Hardcore pornography has been just one click away from kids for too long,” Kupper said, adding that the new law compels companies to act more responsibly. The focus, however, remains narrowly fixed on adult platforms, even as the means to enforce it could have far-reaching effects on internet freedom. Blue Gov and two blue Senators, but unfortunately the state is gerrymandered to shit and retirees mainlining fox news get to call the shots

Anon09/29/25, 09:51No.1443181

Shit like this is meant to remove porn from the internet outright. Sites either can't handle this level of verification and have to shut down due to being blocked everywhere, or they try to play along and then get sued into oblivion when one kid gets through somehow and sees a titty. This is how the porn ban in Project 2025 comes into effect. It's not the only reason they're doing this, but this is where that's coming from. We fucking warned you about this. You didn't listen.

Anon09/29/25, 18:07No.1443253

I love how this exposed how you fags don't trust these porn companies with your information and to follow their own protocols, which proves the law correct. Pornhub virtue signals so hard, but they're selling all of your data. Social media companies absolutely love the idea of requiring ID because then they can legally sell your identity and telemetry without having to pretend it's anonymous

Anon09/29/25, 20:44No.1443302

You all are stupidEmployee looking at a guy's ID for 3 seconds before selling him booze VS him uploading his info online companies scanning it storing it and potentially selling his dataDefinitely not the sameIt also never stops at pornID verification is already coming to Social MediaNot to mention the government will definitely use it for Mass SurveillanceThey will definitely use it to introduce Digital ID and Social Credit ScoreNo one will be able to say anything bad about the government or have an opinion ever again

Anon09/29/25, 21:24No.1443316

I want you anons to look up Youtube id verification news because you think this will only be about porn sites and they won't ask your id in every social media in the future because people were just ok with bills like these passing

Anon09/29/25, 21:25No.1443318

Honestly, I can't wait for one of these politicians to slip up and accidentally reveal what kind of fucked up shit they wanted to access but can't anymore.

Anon09/29/25, 23:07No.1443336

Thanks to the Online Safety Act in the UK you even have to give your ID to listen to music on Spotify how insane is that

Anon09/30/25, 00:42No.1443367

esl shill remains silent, how humiliating

Anon09/30/25, 02:22No.1443392

The Attorney General's Commission on Pornography released its Final Report back in 1986. It’s been sitting there for citizens all this time, yet almost no one has used it to take real action. Shocking that such a resource exists, and still porn hasn’t been removed from the face of the earth.https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/attorney-generals-commission-pornography-final-report

Anon09/30/25, 02:26No.1443393

Anon09/30/25, 04:00No.1443421

e621 is based in Arizona. Just saying.

Anon10/01/25, 03:32No.1443751

It will never not be funny that the right will tirelessly fight for gun ownership, while doing everything in their power to ban images of people having sex. They genuinely view sex as worse than murder. Also, reminder that Josh Duggar was a leader in one of those anti-porn crusade groups and is now serving a 12 year prison sentence for downloading toddler snuff porn. Moralfags who try to impose their puritanism on everyone else are always secretly the biggest degenerates of them all.

Anon10/01/25, 21:49No.1443928

I have a perhaps controversial idea. What if parents actually tried to, you know, parent their kids for once?

Anon10/04/25, 00:25No.1444625

>Oh my god not checking sex >WATCH MORE FIGHTING >WATCH MORE PEOPLE KILL AND BRUTALIZE EACH OFHER >BUT DONT LOOK AT A VAGINA >YOU CAN LOOK AT SOMEONE’S NOSE GET FLIPPED UPSIDE DOWN LIVE AT UFC WHITE HOUSE >BUY YOUR TICKETS TODAY >PRAISE JESUS >KILL

Anon10/05/25, 19:50No.1445023

it's getting to the point where I use a VPN and then the state that the VPN is from is also blocked. Fuck this shit, I'm with conservatives on most issues but stop banning porn. Let parents block it from their own internet if that's the concern.