It’s getting more difficult to gain access to popular adult websites in the United States South.

On Wednesday, Pornhub’s owner, Aylo, started the brand-new year by obstructing 2 more states that executed age confirmation laws needing ID to gain access to pornography, Florida and South Carolina. According to 404 Media, these states are now amongst 16 states where Aylo websites, consisting of Pornhub, RedTube, and YouPorn, can not be accessed. Tennessee likewise ran the risk of being obstructed, however a court preliminarily obstructed its age-verification law from working.

The other obstructed states are Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Virginia. Mapping it out, 404 Media kept in mind that the Aylo blackout covers almost the whole United States South, with Georgia’s age confirmation law set to work in July and most likely to activate another block that would nearly finish the blackout.

When users in any of the obstructed states try to gain access to websites like Pornhub, they see a message from adult performer Cherie Deville notifying them that gain access to is obstructed for their own security.

Aylo has actually long argued that age confirmation laws planned to safeguard kids from accessing adult material are flawed. Instead of keeping kids far from adult products, these laws in fact serve to limit adult activity online, Aylo argues.

Aylo likewise states that needing ID merely drives adult users to riskier adult websites that will not adhere to laws or moderate material wrongfully published without entertainers’ authorization, as Pornhub and other Aylo websites declare to do. And needing adult websites to save individual details about each user likewise postures personal privacy threats, Aylo alerted in a declaration to 404 Media.

“First, to be clear, Aylo has publicly supported age verification of users for years, but we believe that any law to this effect must preserve user safety and privacy and must effectively protect children from accessing content intended for adults,” Aylo stated. “Unfortunately, the way many jurisdictions worldwide, including Florida, have chosen to implement age verification is ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous. 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. Moreover, as experience has demonstrated, unless properly enforced, users will simply access non-compliant sites or find other methods of evading these laws.”