Online porn providers face could be forced to verify age of South Dakota users
House of Representatives passes bill with overwhelming support
Online web sites that offer adult content would be required to verify that the eyeballs ogling that content belong to adults under a bill that passed the South Dakota House Tuesday.
If the online porn bill does pass, South Dakota would join 19 other states that already require age verification before users can access content.
Rep. Bethany Soye, the bill’s prime sponsor, said that lawmakers in 2017 had declared pornography a public health crisis. But since that time, the Legislature had not taken significant steps to protect children from the ills of Internet smut.
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