This effort mostly served to censor the most popular adult website in the world from Missouri residents and didn't have much impact beyond . . . Social media sites like Twitter are excluded from the regs and have nearly INFINITE adult content options.
The legislation is mostly unconstitutional and untested . . . Also easily thwarted by a VPN . . . However, the tech flex is important to consider as Missouri proves increasingly hostile to online biz in order to gain support from old school voters who don't understand the Internets beyond their increasingly silly Facebook "news" feed.
Check-it . . .
The bill, which will take effect Aug. 28, applies to commercial websites and social media platforms that knowingly and intentionally publish or distribute content in Missouri if more than one-third is “sexual material harmful to minors.”
It was included in a list of 22 bills Kehoe’s office said he plans to sign on Thursday.
Covered sites would have to use a third party to conduct “reasonable” age verification, confirming that a user is at least 18 through digital identification, government-issued identification or a commercially reasonable system relying on public or private transactional data, such as records from mortgage, education or employment entities.
Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .
Missouri governor to sign porn site age verification bill * Missouri Independent
Gov. Mike Kehoe will sign legislation requiring pornography websites to verify that users are adults before allowing them to access sexually explicit content.
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