cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/35195650
At the dawn of the new year, Pornhub will leave Florida. Thanks to a harsh new age verification law that takes effect on January 1, the porn giant will no longer do business in the sunshine state. The law mirrors similar laws passed in other Republican led states where Pornhub has stopped doing business.
The dumbest thing about these laws is that all they accomplish is sabotaging American porn companies. Foreign companies have no reason to follow these laws and there’s no way to stop people from going to them instead.
Pornhub is Canadian
They have a footprint and servers in the US, which makes them subject to US law. If they shut that down, they could ignore this law, which is frankly more likely than them complying.
Isn’t the intention to sabotage US porn companies?
All republican policies are intended to sabotage the US in some way, since that’s the soft form of warfare the Kremlin pays the Republicans to wage.
PornHub falling victim to Kremlin is what I would call a mysterious chain of events