The bill would make sites with more than 25 percent adult content liable to fines, and lumps homosexuality into "sexual conduct."

An age verification bill in Kansas that is the most extreme in the country has passed both House and Senate and is on its way to the governor’s desk. The bill will make sites with more than 25 percent adult content liable to heavy fines if they don’t verify that visitors are over the age of 18. It also calls being gay “sexual conduct,” which critics say could set up the state for more censorship of LGBT+ citizens.

  • GiantRobotTRex@lemmy.sdf.org
    5·
    8 months ago

    Any commercial entity that knowingly shares or distributes material that is harmful to minors on a website and such material appears on 25% or more of the webpages viewed on such website in any calendar month

    (emphasis mine)

    They can host as many non-porn videos as they want but it doesn’t matter if people aren’t watching those videos. For every webpage with porn, they’d have to force the user to visit three webpages without porn first.

    • antonim@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      3·
      8 months ago

      In other words, you’ll be forced to watch three videos that you don’t want to see, in order to see one that you do.

      Sounds so familiar…

    • borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      8 months ago

      So all PornHub has to do is set internal policy to not not release and viewership data to any external entity, then pull a Spotify and launch a “Learning Platform”.?