<story><title>Pornhub Blocked in Texas</title><url>https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/pornhub-texas-blocked-age-verification-law-1235942280/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>segasaturn</author><text>The Texas legislation is effectively a block - there&amp;#x27;s no way for PH to verify the age of users entering the site in the way the legislation demands, but they face fines and legal action for not doing so. Catch-22, the only solution is to turn off access.</text></item><item><author>root_axis</author><text>The headline seems misleading. &amp;quot;Pornhub blocked in Texas&amp;quot; suggests Texas did the blocking, a better headline would be &amp;quot;Pornhub blocks users with Texas IPs&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>etskinner</author><text>Still, the article could say something like &amp;quot;Pornhub removes access to Texans after law requires stricter age verification&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>Pornhub Blocked in Texas</title><url>https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/pornhub-texas-blocked-age-verification-law-1235942280/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>segasaturn</author><text>The Texas legislation is effectively a block - there&amp;#x27;s no way for PH to verify the age of users entering the site in the way the legislation demands, but they face fines and legal action for not doing so. Catch-22, the only solution is to turn off access.</text></item><item><author>root_axis</author><text>The headline seems misleading. &amp;quot;Pornhub blocked in Texas&amp;quot; suggests Texas did the blocking, a better headline would be &amp;quot;Pornhub blocks users with Texas IPs&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>javawizard</author><text>This is interesting. What about the Texas law makes it impossible for PH to comply if they were to otherwise decide that that they wanted to (which of course isn&amp;#x27;t likely)?</text></comment>