States are implementing age-verification laws to keep minors off adult websites, but these measures often fail. A study observed that after Louisiana's law required porn sites to verify age, compliant site traffic dropped by 51%, while a rival site that ignored the law saw a 48.1% increase in traffic. This suggests that regulatory efforts may backfire, creating unintended consequences instead of protecting minors. Experts discuss the challenges regulators face in effectively safeguarding children online and the ongoing conversation around tech regulation and its societal implications.
A noncompliant firm that platforms content that we would be more concerned about has risen, and it's not clear to me that any laws are gonna change as a result.
The researchers found that while search traffic to Pornhub-which complied with the law-dropped by 51 percent, traffic to its noncompliant rival, XVideos, rose by 48.1 percent.
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