These are tough times if you're a sexually frustrated teenager in Louisiana. Because the state just started carding people to watch PORN.
Louisiana passed a bill last year to make porn sites check I.D.s to verify users are over 18. If they don't do it, parents can now sue. It just went into effect this week.
The bill passed the state House in June with a 96-to-1 vote. The only person who voted against it was a Democrat named Mandie Landry, who called the law "unconstitutional" and "likely unenforceable."
Sites like Pornhub added a new verification process this week that people in Louisiana must go through before accessing any X-rated content.
There's a "Check My Age" button . . . only government-issued I.D.'s work, like a driver's license . . . and if you're under 18, you can't get in. (Here's what the sign-in page looks like.)
They say it's all private, and they're not saving people's info or tracking anyone. The law makes it illegal to. The only loophole is sites don't have to do it if less than a third of their content qualifies as "porn."
People who support the law think it's a good way to shield kids from all the smut. People against it don't think you should have to get permission from the state to watch what you want to watch.
Louisiana is the first state to do it, but might not be the last . . .
U.S. Senator Mike Lee of Utah introduced a similar bill last month called the "SCREEN Act" that would do the same thing nationwide. ("SCREEN" stands for "Shielding Children's Retinas from Egregious Exposure on the Net".)
Other bills in the past have been nixed by the Supreme Court, though, for violating the First Amendment.
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