PornHub is separating from Florida

Porn website PornHub is adding Florida to the list of states that will be banned starting next year. Florida residents who recently visited the porn site were greeted with a warning saying “You will lose access to PornHub in 14 days” thanks to a new state law requiring an ID to visit the site, it reported.

PornHub has already blocked a number of states from accessing its wealth of sexually explicit content due to new state laws that require visitors to provide a valid government ID to verify their age for access. Passed the Florida Legislature Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it into law on March 25 as part of a series of regulations aimed at protecting minors from explicit material. According to the Adult Entertainment Trade Association, the Free Speech Coalition is fighting the Florida law in federal court .

Florida will become the 13th state to establish an age verification law for adult websites. Florida tracking , arkansas, virginia, mississippi, They all have identity verification laws on their books.

“Not only does this violate adults’ rights to access protected expression, it fails strict scrutiny by using less effective and also more restrictive means to achieve (the state’s) stated purpose of protecting alleged minors,” the report said.

The PornHub blog also states that the company is concerned with the safety and well-being of children but the idea of ​​using identification creates more risks to users’ safety and privacy. The Louisiana law in particular has no state regulator overseeing implementation of the new laws, “resulting in a flawed enforcement system,” says the PornHub blog.