Louisiana now requires a government ID to access Pornhub

A lot of these laws "to protect the kids", have nothing to do with that purpose or are highly misguided. What is presented instead is the usual attempts at gross censorship, nanny state ideology, outright spyware, and/or a lack of common sense. Such BS laws are easily circumvented with VPN (or functionally similar) and are nearly unenforceable.

Much better for the parents to exert some direct control over what their kids are doing (as oppose to expect the state to) and express to them whatever their values and expectations are.

Translation: Louisiana wants to keep tabs on who watches what porn, and create a wonderful grift by having a private company issue "anonymous" porn viewing licenses.

I hope Pornhub gives them a finger by hosting educational content alongside porn, so that the 33.3% rule doesn't apply.

Text-to-speech on Project Gutenberg goes brrrrr.

*Edit: who am I kidding. If these "digital licenses" cost any money to consumers, that law would get repealed real fast.

So Pornhub will pay for the grift, out of performers' pockets.

All in the name of "protecting children". Which, rather appallingly, this still works — even on HN.

I do not understand hiw this is supposed to work. Is Louisiana blocking access somehow? To what?

Or requiring sites to do the verification though a legak request? What about foreign sites then?

Kids in Louisiana don't know about VPNs?

I'm not against this in principal, but its impractical.

Sounds like a good idea. Children should not visit those sites.