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Age verification for porn sites starts today in South Dakota
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Age verification for porn sites starts today in South Dakota

Recent U.S. Supreme Court decision preserves new law, according to the Attorney General's Office

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Some of the internet’s most trafficked pornography websites are now off-limits to South Dakota residents unless age verification information is provided, while others are blocking IP addresses here entirely.

Among a flurry of new laws that took effect Tuesday is a requirement that pornography platforms online first verify that viewers are at least 18 years old before allowing access to adult-oriented sexual content. And porn content providers are responding.

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