Kansas Is About to Pass the Most Extreme Age Verification Law Yet

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Kansas Is About to Pass the Most Extreme Age Verification Law Yet
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An age verification bill in Kansas that is the most extreme in the country has passed both House and Senate and is on its way to the governor’s desk. The bill will make sites with more than 25 percent adult content liable to heavy fines if they don’t verify that visitors are over the age of 18. It also calls being gay “sexual conduct,” which critics say could set up the state for more censorship of LGBT+ citizens.

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Any commercial entity that knowingly shares or distributes material that is harmful to minors on a website and such material appears on 25% or more of the webpages viewed on such website in any calendar month

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They can host as many non-porn videos as they want but it doesn't matter if people aren't watching those videos. For every webpage with porn, they'd have to force the user to visit three webpages without porn first.

Doesn't say "viewed by humans in any calendar month", so there's still a loophole.

In other words, you'll be forced to watch three videos that you don't want to see, in order to see one that you do.

Sounds so familiar...

Doesn't say how long the view time was. Just set 3 quick page redirects before rendering adult content

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