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Pornhub is now blocked in Texas. Could Florida be next?


Florida Legislature recently approved a bill that requires age verification to access porn. Pornhub's parent company responded Friday.

But Aylo, the parent company of the website, previously told the USA TODAY NETWORK-Florida that such laws create data privacy issues. “Any regulations that require hundreds of thousands of adult sites to collect significant amounts of highly sensitive personal information is putting user safety in jeopardy," a spokesperson said in a late January email, when Florida's legislation had just started moving through the Capitol. "We hope Florida legislators will ultimately put into place a solution with respect to age verification that actually protects user safety and privacy," the company's Friday statement reads.

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