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Use of VPNs to bypass age checks on porn sites to be investigated by Australia’s eSafety watchdog
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2026
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Just fuck all the way off with this shit. I know this is Australia, but in the US many states are requiring ID verification for most mainstream porn sites. Sure there are others that work, but it shouldn't even be a thing in the first place.
I wonder if someone can start a lawsuit by stating ID are a direct constitutional violation to view porn, as it's protected speech.
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Porn is protected speech?
In America, although I'm sure that's on the Republican shit-can list.
Well even back in 2004 when Ashcroft v ACLU was decided (and protected online porn as free speech), Justice Scalia said "no, porn should not in any way be protected", and three other justices said whatever restrictions on it were in the law being adjudicated were acceptable as a way to protect children. SCOTUS's more recent decisions regarding hard age-verification in cases like Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton has held that strict age-verification laws are allowed.