Opponents have argued that age verification laws for adult websites not only infringe upon free speech, but also threaten digital privacy because it's impossible to ensure that websites don't retain user identification data.
That year, traffic to the adult content site dropped by -18.5 percent at 9pm ET and during the first hour of the debate, compared to a -16 percent in 2016 when the candidates took the stage for the first time.
Because you must be 18 to get a credit card in the UK, credit card checks are also listed as 'highly effective', as are email-based age estimations, which estimate your age based on the other services where you've provided your email address.
The site is currently banned in 14 states: Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah and Virginia, so they were excluded from the map.
Hunter Biden delivered remarks on the steps of Congress on Wednesday where he discussed defying a congressional subpoena to testify behind closed-doors - instead calling Republicans 'shameless' in their impeachment efforts against his father and claiming he would only testify publicly
Aidan Maese-Czeropski, 24, was fired by Maryland Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin for filming a gay sex tape in a Senate hearing room. The congressional aid is also facing possible criminal charges after the X-rated film shook the internet.
The two instances last week were proof for Don Jr. that Democrats are increasingly exhibiting 'insanity' and, in seeming to advocate for his father's reelection, said that 'decency is on the ballot' for the 2024 presidential election.
Under the Online Safety Act, all social media and search services are required to carry out a children's access assessment to determine if their site is likely to be accessed by children, with Ofcom saying platforms have until April 16 to complete this.
Those who attempted to access Pornhub in Texas on Thursday were greeted with a message explaining the Canadian-based company's position. A 2023 survey found 58 percent of Americans have watched porn at some point.
The event, which saw President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump battle it out on camera, started at 9pm ET - the same time viewership on Pornhub dropped by -8 percent from its average viewership.
Arkansas' law, which would have required parental consent for children to create new social media accounts, was struck down by a federal judge Thursday and a lawsuit challenging the Louisiana law is pending.
Donald Trump Jr. said the congressional staffer who filmed a gay porn video in a Senate office building is proving that the Democratic party thinks they are 'beyond reproach' because there is no one to 'countermeasure to this insanity.'
In 2023,
Pornhub's owners paid out $1.8 million after admitting to profiting from sex trafficking and agreed to make payments to women whose videos were posted without their consent in a New York Court
Under the Online Safety Act, all social media and search services are required to carry out a children's access assessment to determine if their site is likely to be accessed by children, with Ofcom saying platforms have until April 16 to complete this
'But they can do this because they realize there's no one actually there as a countermeasure to this insanity, right?' Don Jr. continued. 'It wasn't just a young guy, being a young guy. That's a power play, right? 'We're going to turn off all the videos in here and we're going to do this. We're going to share it because we're beyond reproach.'
'Services which host their own pornography must start to introduce age checks immediately, while other user-to-user services - including social media - which allow pornography and certain other types of content harmful to children will have to follow suit by July at the latest.
'The regulator's long-awaited guidance on age assurance means adult content providers now have the clarity they need to get their houses in order and put in place robust and reliable methods to keep explicit material well away from underage users.'
'If you think the radicals are the leaders in Congress - the Nancy Pelosi's - no, no, no. It's these 20-something-year-olds that have never been told no, that are told there's 9,476 genders and that's gospel, that believe in convenient science that's made up on the spot to fulfill whatever political narrative they have.'
'Decency is on the ballot,' the Trump Organization co-executive vice president repeated. 'We've got Hunter Biden this week talking about decency. The Republicans - because they had the gall to ask him to come in and do a deposition, discussing one of thousands of instances of him selling out this country, enriching his family.'
The world's largest adult content website, Pornhub, has blocked users from accessing it and its sister sites in Texas over a dispute regarding an age verification law that the Lone Star State passed in 2023.