Former porn star turned pastor Britney De La Mora has called for age verification laws to become “mandatory” to “protect children” as Florida is set to introduce legislation on the issue in January.
Pornhub will soon no longer be available to Florida users after the Sunshine State instituted a new age verification rule for accessing adult sites. As of January 1, 2025, the age verification rule is linked to State HB 3a measure aimed at protecting minors online.
Pornhub's parent company, Aylo, confirmed to Fox News Digital that it favors implementing effective age verification, but not specifically in the way Florida's law is designed, saying other outlets have incorrectly reported that it does not support age verification at all.
“They evade accountability by saying they don't want to follow a simple law, which is to verify the age of pornography,” De La Mora said.Ingraham angle“I don’t know exactly what they do with their money, but I think they didn’t come to protect little children.”
“Fifty-eight percent of the minors who saw porn for the first time — they saw it by finding it through a pop-up ad and so on. They weren't looking for porn — She was looking for porn De la Mora told them.
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Under the bill, a website or app that “contains a significant amount of material that is harmful to minors” would be required to verify a user's age. Through the “anonymous or standard age verification method,” you must confirm that the user is 18 years or older to continue participating.
In response to the specifics of the action, Aiello chose to halt access to the Florida adult site, saying in a statement that collecting “highly sensitive personal information” put “user safety at risk.”
“First, to be clear, Aylo has publicly supported age verification for users for years, but we believe that any law to that effect must preserve user safety and privacy, and must effectively protect children from accessing content intended for adults. Unfortunately, the method it has chosen Many jurisdictions around the world, including Florida, implement age verification, which is ineffective, indiscriminate, and dangerous, and any regulations that require hundreds of thousands of adult sites to collect large amounts of highly sensitive personal information compromise user safety and may The experiment proved it, Aiello said “Unless properly implemented, users will simply access non-compliant sites or find other ways to evade these laws,” Fox News Digital told Fox News Digital in a statement.
The statement later continued: “The best solution to making the Internet safer, preserving user privacy and preventing children from accessing adult content is to perform age verification at the source: on the device. The technology to achieve this exists today. What is required is the political and social will to achieve this. We are keen We are happy to be part of this solution and are happy to collaborate with government, civil society and technology partners to come up with an effective solution for device-based age verification. Additionally, there are many devices already offering free and easy-to-use parental control features that can prevent children from accessing… Adult content without risking data disclosure Sensitive user.
Floridians who are still using the app before the deadline will see a pop-up countdown for the number of additional days they can access the site.
“Did you know that your government wants you to give you a driver's license before you can access PORNHUB?” The pop-up window reads. “Although this sounds crazy, it's true. You will be asked to prove that you are 18 or older, such as uploading your government-issued ID for each website containing adult content that you wish to access.”
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The pop-up also addressed how to support minors who can't access the site, and said preventing use is a “good thing.” It directed readers to alternative methods to prevent access by minors, such as “device-based age verification.”
In this illustration, the PornHub logo is displayed on a smartphone screen in Athens, Greece on March 16, 2022. (Nicholas Kokovelis/Noor Photo via Getty Images)
De la Mora continued: “I was in Porn industry “For seven years, I will get paid extra money for doing aggressive and offensive scenes.”
She expanded on how the acts of “hair pulling, spitting and choking” often used in pornographic clips have become “sex education” for young people.
After speaking with some of the young girls, De La Mora said many expressed that they did not want to have sex again after their first sexual experience.
“I don't blame young boys. They watch pornography, and that's what fills their minds, and that's what teaches them how to have sex,” she said.
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“Protecting children is not a violation of First Amendment rights in any way. I believe our government has an obligation to protect children,” De La Mora said, arguing that adult content “is not created with children in mind.” “They were created for adults, and yet there was no accountability for porn companies.”
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis' communications office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
