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The liability of some asshat like Ken Paxton suing them over Texas residents being able to access adult content without an ID by going through a VPN, and then Visa/Mastercard pulling out, and killing their revenue. Pornhub didn't really care about all the reported abuse content at first. They only cared when payment processors got involved and then Pornhub deleted all of the content uploaded by non-verified users and required users to be verified before they could upload. Look at what just happened with adult games on Steam and Itch because of pressure from payment processors.
Then maybe you can convince Fansly to stop requiring an ID for connections from VPN providers (they are already doing this).
Why in the hell would a company that makes their money off of a percentage of the creators' revenue (sites that already have ID requirements and implementation for the content creators to keep the payment processors happy) rather than ad revenue do that? If the creators start losing huge chunks of revenue because either the platform is blocking a third of the country or the payment processors leave, then the site will lose the content that brings the customers to it.
No, I don't. And I don't think sites should be complying with these stupid ID laws either. But here we are, and here they are. So what does my opinion even matter?
I dont get your argument.
Yes websites that want revenue from all states would have to adhere to all states laws...
Whats with the circular logic?
In response to this initial statement
My argument is that sites don't have to know if you are from a jurisdiction that requires an ID, if they want to take the "leave no chance" approach of instead ensuring you're not from such a jurisdiction. They will know you're on a VPN because they can reverse lookup an IP to see that it is owned by a VPN provider (or VPS provider), and the site can choose to either block you or ask you to age verify based on what they do know instead of what they don't know.
I can make the argument that someone that lives in Wisconsin to drive over state border and access the website in another state... do websites block neighboring states? What if they are on business trip and cross country. Ban that state too? Hell they might be on vacation in germany, better ban germany too.
Your arguement is beyond ridiculous. Once a website geoblocks a region, thats it. States can sue all they want, but they have zero jurisdiction.
Sites are already directing VPN-connected visitors to prove age with an ID. I'm not just hypothesizing, it's already happening. I agree it's ridiculous, but again, they're already doing it.