#3
As of March 2024 Porn Hub blocks it's content in 8 states, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.
Technically the states don't block Porn Hub they require age verification. Porn Hub decided rather than comply with the age verification law they would just block access. Other sites instituted an age verification process or just ignore the law (most porn websites are not US based).
As far as Iraq goes I can't say I'm surprised given how we removed a mostly secular government in a deeply religious area of the world religious law taking over seems like something we could have anticipated.
#5
Of course they are coming for porn the whole point of the age verification laws is to accomplish what porn hub did. I suspect the site that has age verification is getting very little traffic from those states. Since you have to have a photo taken with your webcam,and submit your photo ID which are two things I don't think most porn consumers are interested in doing.
The age verification is just an opening salvo and an easy sell since "It's for the children". Of course when that only slows it down and doesn't stop it there will be a round two.
Not much I can do about it. My vote is gerrymandered to the point it's irrelevant in state and congressional elections, and my state is red enough that my vote for president and senator amounts to urinating in a hurricane.