They know that verification is happening as we shift rightwards, but instead of being the ones beholden to implement an age-verification system that puts them at risk, they want to have device manus do it, which would absolve PH from any responsibility. It’s a business move, on their part.
Because if they don’t do something like this they’re going to lose a massive amount of their user base. If something like this doesn’t happen then it’s id verification, and it’s pretty clear republicans want that nationwide, and UK proves that other countries also want it. This would provide a format to say “I’m over 18 let me in” without needing to provide an id, and so most of their users could still enjoy privately. Decent compromise imo
Because they know the “party of anti-regulation/anti-nannie state” will never trust people to take care of themselves and someone will be forced to do it. They acknowledge either they will have to do a bunch of work and be liable when it fails, or some middle man will. So they choose the middle man.
Why is pornhub doing this all of a sudden? I thought they were against the digital ID bs. How is device-based age verification different?
They know that verification is happening as we shift rightwards, but instead of being the ones beholden to implement an age-verification system that puts them at risk, they want to have device manus do it, which would absolve PH from any responsibility. It’s a business move, on their part.
Because if they don’t do something like this they’re going to lose a massive amount of their user base. If something like this doesn’t happen then it’s id verification, and it’s pretty clear republicans want that nationwide, and UK proves that other countries also want it. This would provide a format to say “I’m over 18 let me in” without needing to provide an id, and so most of their users could still enjoy privately. Decent compromise imo
PH’s parent was one of the front running bids to operate the UK age verification scheme before it was abandoned.
Because they know the “party of anti-regulation/anti-nannie state” will never trust people to take care of themselves and someone will be forced to do it. They acknowledge either they will have to do a bunch of work and be liable when it fails, or some middle man will. So they choose the middle man.