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This is about a Texas Law that went before the Supreme Court recently.

Texas' law, H.B. 1181, requires people visiting porn websites to prove their age by either uploading government-issued identification or a "commercially reasonable method" such as bank information. More than a dozen other states have passed similar bills, though they are all on hold pending what the Supreme Court decides.




There's just too much money to be made selling porn to children.


No, there isn't. Almost all porn that is accessible to children is on freely available social media like instagram and twitter. Not on Pornhub.


Twitter and Instagram, then, are not businesses that make money selling content to viewers in an indirect manner where the viewer provides eyeballs to an advertiser who then provides money to the platform, right?


Are you saying kids don't go to pornhub?


No I'm not.


Children don't exactly have a lot of money, especially in a form they can spend online. Porn companies want customers who can actually afford to buy their products!




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