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Speaking Out Against Age Verification Rulings
Cowards in courtrooms are criminalizing creators, And we cannot be silent on it.
Silence is complacency and complicity and y’all I fucking refuse either.
To preface: I’m real fucking mad y’all. This is mostly a rant. And if you are not mad yet, you need to start looking into what’s going on. Because you should be. There is no language filter here. My friends and the people I consider family, and my own ass, are at severe risk now. I do not know what the next steps are. I do not know how we move forward from this. But I do know that not speaking out about it becomes complacency and compliance. And I refuse to be either.
On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton (No. 23-1122) that Texas can force adult sites to verify user ages via government ID, credit cards, or other invasive methods. The vote was 6–3, with the majority claiming the law “only incidentally burdens” adults’ access to legal content. This isn’t about protecting kids. It’s about normalizing surveillance, restricting speech, and quietly gutting the livelihoods of adult creators across the country. Let’s put a silencer on the gaslighting, and talk some real shit about this.
This isn’t a safety measure. It’s a muzzle.
Let’s be clear. The law demands sites verify users’ ages using sensitive methods like government-issued IDs, credit cards, or facial recognition scans. This ruling affects everyone. States now have full clearance to start building chain link fences with goddamn razor wire on top around adult content and throwing away the keys.
Adults lose access to legal content.
The law doesn’t ban porn directly. They know damn well they wouldn’t be able to win that one. So instead, let’s preach about protecting kids. But here’s the actuality of it. It makes it so hard to access content that people just give up. Let’s be real honest, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. This is control and oppression that is dressed up as protection. There’s no evidence that this protects anyone. There’s tons of evidence that it destroys access.
This is a privacy nightmare.
The requirement to upload government IDs or submit credit card information doesn’t just discourage viewers. It puts them at risk. This data will be stored by adult sites or third-party verifiers. If you think that won’t be hacked, you’re living in a dream. Ask anyone who’s been in a data breach. Kind of like the one that just happened no more than a few weeks ago and billions of pieces of data were shared. Not to mention the giant raging question of who all is going to have access to that data? And let’s get so fucking for real with each other. Anyone here who has had to age verify a buyer already knows just doing that can to lead to 20 minutes of back and forth explanation, and oftentimes declination.
This is censorship. Period.
It’s disguised as a “child safety” law. But the result is that consenting adults can’t view legal content, and creators are being pushed off the internet by policy. This is a quiet, bureaucratic purge of adult media, not a solution.
Traffic for adult creators is going to plummet.
And not just in Texas. Over 20 states are planning or considering similar laws. We’re looking at a future where viewers can’t find us, can’t pay us, and can’t trust the platform to protect their data. Even if we follow the law, we lose the audience. The people who are supposed to be protected are just being driven underground to sketchy, unregulated platforms. As of right now even giant platforms are blocking giant portions of the United States. The last statistic I saw was that PornHub is blocking about 1/3 of the United States. That is 1/3 of your traffic just gone.
What we need to prepare for.
Site traffic? Dead.
Imagine you’re an adult content consumer. You’re not trying to join the FBI, you’re just trying to blow off steam at 1:43 a.m. You hit a site and wham bam you are forced to upload your driver’s license, facial recognition scan, and credit card verification. Who the hell sticks around for that? We are likely going to watch user bases crater like it’s OnlyFans 2021 all over again. Except this time, it’s court-approved.
Creators are likely to hemorrhage income.
Less traffic means fewer clicks, fewer subscribers, fewer purchases. And for anyone thinking “just move to a verification-compliant platform,” what platform? You think OnlyFans is going to absorb the legal risk of holding IDs for every U.S. user? No. They’re going to start geo-blocking entire states. As I said earlier, PornHub already did it. And I wouldn’t be able to put half an inch of blame on any damn platform for doing it as well.
Think direct sales is the way out?
Most of us in direct sales are just small solo businesses or individuals. We are not giant corporations with these dedicated security teams. Not to mention we don’t exactly have giant cybersecurity teams. Asking us to now be responsible for collecting and storing government ID information for extended periods of time is just literally begging for a data breach. And who’s going to get fucked when that data gets leaked? It’s not the lawmakers who are forcing us into this.
The bullshit is real, and it’s here. This is Not about minor protection. This is about control.
This doesn’t just push away viewers. It destroys creators, too. You think everyone who depends on this industry and this income in a conservative area are going to keep producing adult content when they know state officials could track down their real name through age-verification logs? Do you think content consumers are going to risk this as well? That’s not safety. That’s intimidation.
And y’all, once this model is in place for porn, it can be applied to anything deemed “sensitive.” LGBTQ+ education? Reproductive health resources? Political satire? Once you normalize mandatory ID walls, it’s game over for open access. And don’t act surprised when the next thing you’re blocked from without ID is a fucking Planned Parenthood site.
This quote put it quite eloquently, which with my rage is not something I can currently do:
They have succeeded in carving the way for a future where adults are monitored intensely for doing adult behavior. A future where creators are treated like criminals for existing and where your government thinks moral panic is a policy platform.
Is anyone here actually believing this is to protect children?
This is for control. It is for erasure. And it’s happened. It’s time to get real fucking mad, real damn strong, and it’s time to come together.
I do not know when the recording of the live session is going to be out, however I suggest keeping your eye open for Sex Work CEO’s discussion with Corey Silverstein on this. I guarantee they will be significantly more eloquent and calm. And may have information on what we can do next.
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