Rather than attempt to navigate the patchwork of irrational laws in the following states — laws that do nothing to meaningfully address access to adult content, ignore constitutional precedent, and cater to a political moral panic — we have chosen not to seek business from these states: AL, AR, AZ, FL, GA, ID, IN, KS, KY, LA, MS, MO, MT, NE, NC, ND, OH, OK, SC, SD, TN, TX, UT, VA, WY.
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Unfortunately, instead of approaching the issue of access to adult content logically, such as by requiring parental controls or content filters to be implemented at the device, browser, or ISP level, the Supreme Court recently ruled that individual states can pass their own laws requiring websites with adult content to verify the age of users accessing that content. This ruling makes little sense for a multitude of reasons.
First and foremost, the Internet is a global network. A website hosted in the United States is now subject to a patchwork of state laws, meaning it must comply with different age verification requirements depending on where the user is located. Meanwhile, an identical website hosted overseas, outside the jurisdiction of any U.S. state, is under no obligation to do the same. The end result is not better protection, but rather confusion and inconsistency. It's like trying to control the weather by regulating the size of umbrellas. A user who clicks on "Site A" might be forced to upload identification or navigate through age verification walls, while that same user can simply click "Site B", perhaps hosted in another country or even just registered differently, and bypass those restrictions entirely.
This border-control-for-a-cloud approach does not meaningfully prevent minors from accessing adult content. What it does do is punish lawful U.S. based websites, creators, and publishers. Instead of crafting national policy rooted in technological reality and civil liberties, the conservative-stacked Supreme Court majority has ignored decades of precedent and the First Amendment to enable a state-by-state morality war online. If the actual goal was to reduce underage access to adult material, a nationwide, technologically sound solution, like device-level filters, opt-in restrictions at the network level, or tools empowered and controlled by parents, would be far more effective, consistent, and enforceable.
While we absolutely hate having to take this approach, it's unfortunately the choice for now. Hopefully, technologies will soon develop to address this mess. "Necessity is the mother of invention" as the saying goes, and perhaps one day you'll be able to access the full Straight College Men website. It's still there for folks not attempting to access the site from an IP address that the system determines is in one of the above listed states.
So, thanks for reading. Sorry it's so deep. We try to avoid that around here, but there's no fun way around this mess. Elections have consequences. Make your voice heard and vote.
- Matt