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Re:Pornhub Blocks All of Utah from Its Site by woodruffw on Monday May 01, 2023 @11:54PM (#35783188)
How is an AI-generated profile picture going to circumvent an ID lookup? States aren't considering facial recognition for age verification; they're going to require affirmative proof in the form of a state or federal ID that can be looked up.

(And note: on a policy level, this is fundamentally different from your neighborhood's bar having a conveniently broken ID reader: an online service can't meaningfully claim to lack the connectivity needed for ID lookups.)

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Re:Pornhub Blocks All of Utah from Its Site by oarsinsync on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @11:54AM (#35789514)
> an online service can't meaningfully claim to lack the connectivity needed for ID lookups

Partial connectivity outages happen literally every day. Most people don’t notice. Websites like “down for everyone or just me”, or uptime monitors that monitor from dozens of different source locations, exist because of this.

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Re:Pornhub Blocks All of Utah from Its Site by woodruffw on Tuesday May 02, 2023 @12:57PM (#35790611)
I don't think this addresses the point: if you can connect to a service, then laws like this will require them to make an ID challenge. If you can't connect, then it's a moot point.

The service itself can't say that it can't connect to you, because it's an online service and you're trivially connected to it.

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