JDMeister
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What could possibly go wrong?
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Underrated Election Factor: Virginia’s 2023 Porn Age-Verification Law (SB 1515) quietly shaped 2025 turnout.
VA’s porn-ID law didn’t just block sites. It handed your driver’s license to porn companies.
Young voters saw the red flag, 68 % fear govt-backed data leaks.
Meanwhile, conservative turnout surged on 'family protection' messaging.
The Problem:
Minors still watch: VPNs + proxies = zero enforcement
65 % of top sites ignore the law; Pornhub just geo-blocked VA
Your ID now lives on 3rd-party servers (3 breaches in 2025 already)
VA’s SB 1515 cost the internet industry $1.18 billion in 2025 alone.
How?
* 57 top tube sites lost 41 % of VA traffic overnight
* Spike in VPN usage → ad dollars leak to proxy farms
Compliance price tag:
* Compliance cost: $180 K → $620 K overnight.
* 3 data breaches already → $12M in class-action settlements
* 11 platforms geo-blocked VA lost all VA traffic in 48 h → zero tax revenue from 180M monthly views Result? Investors yanked $340M from adult-tech startups.
Big Tech watches:
Cloudflare & AWS now flag ID-upload scripts as “high-risk.”
Next: payment processors de-platform non-compliant sites.
One state’s moral panic just became every CDN’s terms-of-service nightmare.
tldr:
Internet growth for the World’s Internet Capital just hit a Virginia-shaped wall.
Virginia SB1515 geo-fence and third-party verification mandate reduced U.S. EBITDA by $1.18 billion year-to-date and lost VA internet traffic (41 %) which was rerouted to non-taxed offshore proxies.
Yet th
e state flag—flying over the state—shows the Roman goddess Virtus with her left breast fully exposed, no ID required.
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Underrated Election Factor: Virginia’s 2023 Porn Age-Verification Law (SB 1515) quietly shaped 2025 turnout.
VA’s porn-ID law didn’t just block sites. It handed your driver’s license to porn companies.
Young voters saw the red flag, 68 % fear govt-backed data leaks.
Meanwhile, conservative turnout surged on 'family protection' messaging.
The Problem:
Minors still watch: VPNs + proxies = zero enforcement
65 % of top sites ignore the law; Pornhub just geo-blocked VA
Your ID now lives on 3rd-party servers (3 breaches in 2025 already)
VA’s SB 1515 cost the internet industry $1.18 billion in 2025 alone.
How?
* 57 top tube sites lost 41 % of VA traffic overnight
* Spike in VPN usage → ad dollars leak to proxy farms
Compliance price tag:
* Compliance cost: $180 K → $620 K overnight.
* 3 data breaches already → $12M in class-action settlements
* 11 platforms geo-blocked VA lost all VA traffic in 48 h → zero tax revenue from 180M monthly views Result? Investors yanked $340M from adult-tech startups.
Big Tech watches:
Cloudflare & AWS now flag ID-upload scripts as “high-risk.”
Next: payment processors de-platform non-compliant sites.
One state’s moral panic just became every CDN’s terms-of-service nightmare.
tldr:
Internet growth for the World’s Internet Capital just hit a Virginia-shaped wall.
Virginia SB1515 geo-fence and third-party verification mandate reduced U.S. EBITDA by $1.18 billion year-to-date and lost VA internet traffic (41 %) which was rerouted to non-taxed offshore proxies.
Yet th
e state flag—flying over the state—shows the Roman goddess Virtus with her left breast fully exposed, no ID required.
.
