From Texas HB 1181[0]: > (b) A commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material on an Internet website or a third party th

From Texas HB 1181[0]: > (b) A commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or distributes material on an Internet website or a third party that performs age verification under this chapter shall require an individual to: > (1) provide digital identification; or > (2) comply with a commercial age verification system that verifies age using: > (A) government-issued identification; or > (B) a commercially reasonable method that relies > on public or private transactional data to verify the age of an > individual. The issue is that: - Asking porn sites (whose traffic is mostly nonpaying lurkers subsidized by very horny whales paying for EVERYTHING) to scan licenses, is technically non-trivial and extremely anti-privacy, and - Leaving (B) undefined means means exposure to way more lawsuits Reducing this law to "proof of age" misses a big part of what these govs are really trying to achieve (tar-and-feathering people who privately enjoy spicy entertainment) So given the ubiquity of VPN services that users can use to actually privately enjoy the world's oldest form of entertainment, it is easier for Mindgeek et. al. to IP block and create an even bigger problem for these governments to deal with (introducing a semi-private communication channel to people who didn't know this was an option). [0] https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB01181H.htm https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/88R/billtext/html/HB01181H...