I'm not a lawyer, but I did debate once and know that words are fungible. Most of the anti-porn legislations that have passed only require distributors of "har

I'm not a lawyer, but I did debate once and know that words are fungible. Most of the anti-porn legislations that have passed only require distributors of "harmful" material (porn) to use age-verification technology via, amongst other methods, "commercially reasonable" identity providers. "Commercially reasonable" isn't defined in these statutes. Furthermore, there haven't been any follow-up legislations to implement state-level verification of these "commercially reasonable" identity providers. Given this, what's to stop PornHub et. al. from doing something like what "social clubs" do/did in dry counties? Social clubs check your ID (to comply with federal law) and then ask you to sign in. The signing in is notional; it doesn't mean anything. In other words, something like: - Porn site: "Sorry, $US_STATE requires you to verify your identity; go to this website to proceed" - "Identity provider": "Enter name and age, then hit OK" - "Identity provider" to porn site: "All clear; they hit OK" - Porn site: "Thanks for verifying! Click the 'Remember, porn is bad, mmkay?' button to browse our collection" If enough sites support said identity provider, then wouldn't they be the "commercially reasonable" choice? (Of course, none of this matters if the majority-conservative US administration that gets sworn in this month decides to implement digital age verification for "harmful material" on a federal level. In that case, my earlier question of mini-"Great Firewall of China" in the US when that I posted here matters more.) (Also, not every porn site complies with these laws, the oh-my-goodness-so-fucking-many porn sites out there aggregate from each other anyways, and I don't think this has been court-tested yet, so we don't know what actually happens to operators that tell these states to fuck off! Also, let's not forget that porn exists on social media and other commercial platforms, unless Texas wants to actually try blocking Microsoft Bing in the state)