I got some bad news for any of you who might be in Utah.
If you try to load up a website which I'm reading is called Pornhub,
you're not gonna see what you're looking for, whatever it is that they have there.
Instead, you'll see this.
>> Hi, I'm Cherie DeVille.
As you may know, your elected officials have required us to verify your
age before granting you access to our website.
While safety and compliant are at the forefront of our mission,
giving your ID card every time you wanna visit an adult platform is not the most
effective solution for protecting our users.
And in fact, will put children and your privacy at risk.
In addition, mandating age verification without proper enforcement gives
platforms the opportunity to choose whether or not to comply.
As we've seen in other states,
this just drives traffic to sites with far fewer safety measures in place.
Very few sites are able to compare to the robust trust and
safety measures we currently have in place.
In order to protect children and user privacy,
any legislation must be enforced against all platforms offering adult content.
>> So that is both awesome and definitely not what people in Utah were expecting
when they tried to log on to whatever Pornhub is.
So basically what Cherie DeVille, who by the way, has appeared on our show,
she's an activist in a number of different topics,
including attempting to use pornography to get guys to be a little bit more cautious
before jumping into cryptocurrency.
That's what we actually talked about.
But anyway, there she is attempting to get people to put a little bit of pressure
on their government in Utah to dial back some of the legislation they've passed
recently, including SB 287 online pornography viewing age requirements.
Which was passed in March and goes into effect today.
In that law, a commercial entity that knowingly and intentionally publishes or
distributes material harmful to minors on the Internet from a website
that contains a substantial portion of such material shall be held liable.
If the entity fails to perform reasonable age verification methods to verify the age
of an individual attempting to access the material.
So they have it in Utah, it's working its way through other state legislatures.
And as Cherie pointed out in that video, even if we
assume that everybody who voted for this in Utah was operating in good faith and
feel free to make the decision to accept that.
That doesn't mean that that's the effect that it actually has.
It is easy to get around those surfaces.
And there are side effects of setting up those sorts of age requirements which
might result in people being victimized, both children, but then also adults as
well, who might go to other sites and then they might be victimized, identity stolen.
All the different stuff that she went into in that video.
So I think it's a really interesting tactic.
I like that Pornhub is once again using their clout, I guess,
in the marketplace of ideas and smut to affect political change.
Danielle, what do you make of all this?
>> I mean, one, I think that bravo to Pornhub.
I think that what they're doing makes sense.
And the reality is that these attempts at supposedly keeping children safe is BS.
And I'll just keep saying that.
I'm like, do you know what, you should be making legislation around.
I don't know, gun safety.
Again, these places, they want to ban books and ban drag queens and ban porn and
do all of these things to, quote, unquote, keep children safe.
But the one thing that we actually need in order to keep children safe would be gun
reform.
So attacking private industry as a way to,
again, force a political agenda that is around faux ideas,
around religion and modesty, that's what they're doing.
So I think that it's important to call it out.
I think that it's important for these private companies like Pornhub and
others to flex in a lot of different ways.
But again, if you wanna keep kids safe,
maybe stop them from getting murdered in their classrooms.
Just an idea.
>> Yeah, exactly.
No, I love what gets to qualify as a threat and what doesn't in America.
So yeah, the fact that a trans person exists, mortal threat,
needs to be wiped out.
Legislation everywhere, instantly, dozens of bills.
The massacres just doesn't even, like they're literally going on camera and
saying, we're not going to fix that.
But they think they can do this.
And look, it goes way beyond this.
So this is, I think, extreme, but in the context of everything the right has been
saying recently about pornography, it's actually relatively moderate.
Marjorie Greene was just found on video,
I think it was yesterday, saying we should porn.
That's what she means.
What she said was we should ban all porn.
Like, effectively, adults should not be allowed to consume this material.
And again, I've been beating this drum day after day.
The party that used to talk about freedom doesn't believe you should be able to
smoke what you want, doesn't believe that you should be able to read what you want,
doesn't believe you should be able to FAFT to whatever you want.
Like you do not have freedom in the world that they are trying to push us towards.
And I am very happy to talk about this constantly because I believe that there
are not a lot of Americans that actually agree with them.
But the issue is that I don't think that the response to these sorts of culture
war attacks and rolling back of rights and freedoms is anywhere near as big or
as passionate as of right now as the attacks come against it.
I think a lot of people, even in the wake of the destruction of Roe v Wade,
still don't understand how radical the other side is,
how relentless they are at the state level in passing this sort of BS.
And so I think that everybody needs to rise up.
I should probably have worded that differently consider the subject matter,
but, any final thoughts Danielle?
>> [LAUGH] God, that was good.
My final thoughts are people need to pay attention to what the Republican agenda is
because they actually do have an agenda.
And it is to make sure that everyone thinks like they do, praise like they do,
and isn't connected to anything that they find harmful.
And it is to promote their white evangelical Christian agenda.
So folks, wake up.
Vote at all levels of government.
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