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Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet


Age verification isn't just for adult websites.

"The rollout of the Online Safety Act has shown just how disastrous this type of regulation can be," said Mike Stabile, director of public policy at adult industry trade organization, the Free Speech Coalition. Adult performer and activist Siri Dahl told Mashable she's increasingly exhausted, not just by the SCOTUS decision, but also by how "a lot of average folks out there really don't understand the impact that this — well, has already started to have — but how far things can really go when it comes to censorship." Miers previously worked for the technology trade organization Chamber of Progress and wanted to file a brief in support of the Free Speech Coalition, which was fighting against Texas's age verification law (in what ultimately became the SCOTUS case).

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