@along_the_road@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org • 9 months agoPornhub to leave five more states over age-verification lawswww.engadget.comexternal-linkmessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up1238arrow-down10
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minus-square@Darkassassin07@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglish73•9 months agoThe middle-man provides plausible deniability in this case. PornHub can genuinely say they don’t see connections from age-verification states atm. That stops being true if they host the VPN, making them aware of actual client locations.
minus-square@limerod@reddthat.comlinkfedilink19•9 months agoThat would be a liability, and they would go after the parent company crying foul play.
The middle-man provides plausible deniability in this case. PornHub can genuinely say they don’t see connections from age-verification states atm. That stops being true if they host the VPN, making them aware of actual client locations.
Wonder if a parent company could own them both.
That would be a liability, and they would go after the parent company crying foul play.