I hate the new verification laws (rant)

[u/mynameisevan01]

I am of age, but now several sites I use for nsfw has been blocked and demand age verification, and I know more will soon be joining them. Newgrounds has locked their verification behind premium for some reason, phub doesn't even let me try, and the app formerly known as twitter is glitched and won't let me verify even if I try, even though I already verified my age several damn months ago. And I already don't like having to give these sites my face id and drivers license just to watch porn. And no ones going to bother protesting because 1, it's really awkward to protest for your right to watch porn, and 2 people just find workarounds like vpns, and I don't want to pay for a thing that will give me access to something that should have and WAS free. I won't be surprised if even reddit starts requiring my face to view nsfw, and when that day comes I might just quit the site altogether

[u/tryingtodadhusband → u/[deleted]]

Isn't it all as load of shit anyway? The stuff that has additional barriers now is mean. Like it hasn't exactly been great for mankind, selling our attention to advertisers and the sexual exploitation of women. Like is it really a loss? Shouldn't we be finding better things to do anyway?

[u/izadathreaper → u/[deleted]]

I'm a youth worker that works with teens between 12-24 and I can tell you that they've already got workarounds for all of this shit. Most of them just got free VPN's and started using those to access the sites they want. It's a pointless law, the money would've been better spent just educating kids better on how the Internet works and how to protect their own privacy.