PornHub splits with Florida

Porn website PornHub is adding Florida to its list of states to block starting next year. reported that Florida residents who recently visited the porn website were greeted with a warning that read “You will lose access to PornHub in 14 days” thanks to a new state law that requires ID to visit the website.

PornHub has already blocked a number of states from accessing its wealth of sexually explicit content due to new state laws requiring visitors to provide a valid government ID to verify their age for access. The Florida Legislature passed and Gov. Ron DeSantis signed it into law on March 25 as part of a series of regulations designed to protect minors from explicit material. Adult entertainment trade association The Free Speech Coalition is fighting Florida’s law in federal court, according to .

Florida will become the 13th state to enact an age-verification law for adult websites. Florida is next , Arkansas, Virginia, Mississippi, that they all have ID verification laws on their books.

“This not only infringes on adults’ rights to access protected speech, but is unscrutinized by using the least effective and yet most restrictive means to achieve the (state’s) stated goal of purportedly protecting minors,” according to

PornHub’s blog also states that the company is concerned about the safety and well-being of children, but the idea of ​​using identification poses more risks to user safety and privacy. In particular, Louisiana’s law lacks a state regulator to oversee the implementation of the new laws, “leading to a patchy enforcement regime,” the PornHub blog said.