由于美国多州实施年龄验证法，Pornhub在16个州被封锁。这些法律要求用户提交身份证明才能访问超过三分之一内容为色情的网站。虽然Pornhub支持年龄验证，但认为现有法律不安全且无效，用户会转向不合规网站。行业专家指出，这些法律容易被VPN规避，并引发隐私担忧。成人行业专家和Pornhub都提倡设备级过滤。此外，特朗普的保守政策可能导致更广泛的色情禁令。田纳西州的类似法律已被成人行业组织阻止，而最高法院将审理得克萨斯州的年龄验证法是否违反第一修正案。

🔞Pornhub因多州年龄验证法被封锁：为响应美国多州要求提交身份证明以访问色情网站的法律，Pornhub在16个州自行封锁了服务。

⚠️年龄验证法导致用户转向更危险的互联网角落：Pornhub母公司Aylo表示，这些法律并未阻止人们寻找色情内容，而是将用户推向不要求年龄验证、不遵守法律、不重视用户安全、且缺乏内容管理的网站。

🔒年龄验证法存在隐私和安全问题：行业专家认为，这些法律容易被VPN规避，且要求网站收集大量敏感个人信息，反而威胁用户隐私和安全。

⚖️法律挑战与未来走向：成人行业组织正在挑战这些法律，最高法院将审理得克萨斯州的年龄验证法是否违反宪法第一修正案，同时，保守政策可能导致更广泛的色情禁令。

New Year's Day has come and gone, which means Pornhub is now blocked in 16 U.S. states.

The site blocked itself from almost all of the American South, as 404 Media put it, as a response to age-verification laws. These are state requirements to submit ID to access websites where over a third of the content hosted is explicit. Louisiana started the trend of passing age-verification bills two years ago; others have followed suit. As of January 1, such laws in Florida and South Carolina have gone into effect.

While Pornhub is not blocked in Louisiana, it is blocked in 16 states, a Pornhub representative confirmed to Mashable:

Alabama

Arkansas

Florida

Idaho

Indiana

Kansas

Kentucky

Mississippi

Montana

Nebraska

North Carolina

Oklahoma

South Carolina

Texas

Utah

Virginia

In Louisiana, where users must submit ID to view Pornhub, the site has seen traffic decline around 80 percent, Aylo (Pornhub's parent company) told Mashable.

"These people did not stop looking for porn. They just migrated to darker corners of the internet that don't ask users to verify age, that don't follow the law, that don't take user safety seriously, and that often don't even moderate content. In practice, the laws have just made the internet more dangerous for adults and children," Aylo stated.

In a statement to Mashable, Aylo continued:

First, to be clear, Aylo has publicly supported age verification of users for years, but we believe that any law to this effect must preserve user safety and privacy, and must effectively protect children from accessing content intended for adults.

Unfortunately, the way many jurisdictions worldwide have chosen to implement age verification is ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous. Any regulations that require hundreds of thousands of adult sites to collect significant amounts of highly sensitive personal information is putting user safety in jeopardy. Moreover, as experience has demonstrated, unless properly enforced, users will simply access non-compliant sites or find other methods of evading these laws.

Industry experts say age-verification laws don't work because they are easily circumvented with VPNs. They also raise concerns about privacy protection and safety, since websites will now have to host (even more of) people's personal information. It will be harder to be anonymous online, which experts warn is dangerous to free speech. Adult industry experts Mashable spoke to in an explainer on age-verification laws advocated for device-level filters, as did Aylo in its statement.

Some in the adult industry worry about what Trump's second presidential term will bring due to the conservative policy outline Project 2025 and its measure to ban porn. One of Project 2025's authors, Russell Vought, was caught on a secret recording stating that age-verification laws are the "back door" to a broader porn ban.

Tennessee's age-verification law, which was supposed to be enacted on January 1, has been blocked following a preliminary injunction by the adult industry trade organization the Free Speech Coalition. Because of this, Pornhub hasn't blocked Tennessee.

The Free Speech Coalition has also challenged age-verification laws in other states, including Florida, Indiana, and Texas. In the latter, Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, a Texas district court initially blocked the law, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit upheld it. The Supreme Court will hear the case on January 15, deciding whether Texas's age-verification law violates the First Amendment.