It’s interesting how I’m not hearing this anywhere in the news at all. I’ve had one user tell me that their instance is actually blocking a post of this article in another instance.
Small government yall
It may be small government but that’s how they’re winning.
https://kindbridge.com/online-pornography-age-verification-laws-by-state-map/
States with Active Age Verification Laws (25 Total)
- Alabama - HB 164
- Arizona - HB 2112 (effective May 2025)
- Arkansas - SB 66 (effective July 2023)
- Florida - HB 3 (effective January 2025)
- Georgia - SB 351 (effective July 1, 2025)
- Idaho - H 498 (effective July 2024)
- Indiana - SB 17/Act 17 (effective August 2024)
- Kansas - SB 394 (effective July 2024)
- Kentucky - Law passed
- Louisiana - HB 142 & HB 77 (first state, effective January 1, 2023)
- Mississippi - SB 2346
- Missouri - 15 CSR 60-18 (effective November 30, 2025)
- Montana - SB 544 (effective January 2024)
- Nebraska - LB 1092 (effective July 2024)
- North Carolina - HB 8
- North Dakota - HB 1561 (effective August 1, 2025)
- Ohio - HB 96 (effective September 30, 2025)
- Oklahoma - SB 1959 (effective November 2024)
- South Carolina - Law effective January 2025
- South Dakota - Law effective July 1, 2025
- Tennessee - Law effective January 2025
- Texas - HB 1181 & HB 18 (upheld by Supreme Court June 2025)
- Utah - SB 287
- Virginia - SB 1515
- Wyoming - Law effective July 1, 2025
States WITHOUT Age Verification Laws (25 Total)
- Alaska
- California
- Colorado
- Connecticut
- Delaware
- Hawaii
- Illinois
- Iowa
- Maine
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Michigan
- Minnesota
- Nevada
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- New York
- Oregon
- Pennsylvania
- Rhode Island
- Vermont
- Washington
- West Virginia
- Wisconsin
Porn is an easy target. Gets the religious psychos on board with generalized internet censorship.
They’re building the Great Firewall of the US. Brick by brick.
The best part is, Blue sky is complying in advance and this is preventing Free speech. https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/29/bluesky-rolls-out-age-verification-for-users-in-ohio/
Must be 18+ to watch porn
Must be 18- to watch porn while sitting on the lap of one of these legislators
Great time to invest in VPN stocks
Why do Ohioans accept this?
Do you want the real answer or a pithy quip that’s suitable for a retweet?
The zone has been so entirely flooded that I can’t find Ohioans that know about this.
Also, Ohio’s age verification law was tucked into House Bill 96, the state’s two-year operating budget bill that was over 3,000 pages long (specifically 3,156 pages). The provision appears in Section 1349.10 of the budget bill, which was signed by Governor DeWine on June 30, 2025.
Unlike other states that passed age verification as standalone legislation, Ohio specifically “nestled” the age verification requirements into the state’s operating budget rather than making it a bill in its own right.
So it’s not a matter of it being “accepted”. Those shitheels just slid it in under the radar.
Also, like that other person said, there are legitimately education challenges in Ohio.
In the late 90s, the way Ohio funds schools was found to be unconstitutional, that is according to the state constitution not the US Constitution, and that has yet to be fully rectified but that’s a whole other fucking can of worms.
Wait a minute‽ Other states don’t have constant levies on the ballot for school funding‽ The lack of funding school explains so much about Ohio.
Also the most important thing to understand about the Ohio government is that the supreme court makes their decisions then the state government decides if they’d like to enforce it. I love Ohio and am sad I had to flee, but Jesus goddamn fuck every law since the gerrymandering decision was ignored needs to be invalidated and everyone involved in ignoring it needs to be arrested.
I simply cannot argue against that line of reasoning. I definitely agree.
A level of gerrymandering that more or less makes you give up. Like, multiple constitutional amendments to stop gerrymandering but the legislature learned they could just run out the clock. This resulted in brain drain as progressive, liberal, and educated people left while conservatives flocked to a state with a purple economy and deepening red laws.
Lack of education
This is some bullshit and I suspect as a person who grew up in ohio that it’s generally unpopular. Ohio’s population was always far more moderate than this
I don’t think people really know about it just yet because it was snuck in. Here’s a link to a description of how it worked. https://sh.itjust.works/comment/21379500
