The world’s largest pr0n website is cutting off access to Florida residents starting on January 1, 2025.
Florida residents will be unable to access Pr0nHub, the most trafficked pr0nography website worldwide, as of Jan. 1.
Officials with Aylo, the parent company to Pr0nHub, confirmed it will deny access for all users in the state in response to age restriction laws.
An email from the company stated the restriction is in protest of conservative states that protect children from dangerous influences online.
“Unfortunately, the way many jurisdictions worldwide, including Florida, have chosen to implement age verification is ineffective, haphazard and dangerous,” reads an email from Aylo.
Florida passed a state law making it mandatory for pr0n sites to verify user’s ages by requiring them to provide a photo ID to login. Websites that don’t comply are subject to a $50,000 fine. In response, Pr0nHub is cutting off Florida on Jan. 1.
Texas, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Kentucky and Nebraska were blocked earlier this year, and Oklahoma was cut off last month.
“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,” Aylo stated. “Moreover, as experience has demonstrated, unless properly enforced, users will simply access non-compliant sites or find other methods of evading these laws.”
State lawmakers aren’t impressed by Aylo’s protests.
“The fact that they’ve chosen to shut down instead of complying to ensure that children aren’t accessing their site tells us exactly who their real target audience is,” said state Rep. Chase Tramont, a Port Orange Republican and the sponsor of the age verification bill.
Rep. Fiona McFarland, a Sarasota Republican, said, “If a company can’t abide by Florida laws, then they can’t do business here.”
