{"id":2092,"date":"2024-12-31T08:41:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T15:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/?p=2092"},"modified":"2025-01-28T21:06:20","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T04:06:20","slug":"the-age-verification-ambulance-chasers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2092","title":{"rendered":"The Age-Verification Ambulance Chasers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Apparently, there&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepitchkc.com\/anti-porn-lawyers-ready-to-profit-from-a-kansas-age-gating-law-that-may-violate-the-first-amendment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">law firm in Kansas<\/a> that&#8217;s using the state&#8217;s new age verification law to solicit potential clients to sue porn website owners. Kansas&#8217;s law (one of the strictest in the country) is designed so that any citizen, not just the state, can bring a lawsuit against a producer. The Kansas law allows for a <em>minimum <\/em>fine of $50,000 dollars against any website operator with a site accessible in Kansas that doesn&#8217;t have an age verification system in place. It seems some producers may have already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freespeechcoalition.com\/blog\/adult-site-threatened-over-age-verification-in-kansas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received letters <\/a>from the Kansas law firm demanding a settlement to avoid legal action. I can just imagine having to speak to one of these lawyers: &#8220;It would be a shame to find yourself embroiled in a big lawsuit. But hey, buddy, making a settlement would be a much wiser path, spare yourself all that scrutiny and embarrassment of being dragged into court with your weird fetish website, could ruin your life. Yeah, would really be a shame if something like that were to happen to you, wouldn&#8217;t it?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If this kind of thing escalates, it&#8217;s possible it could reach a point where I may have to block my own website from showing up in states where I could conceivably get sued. Pornhub has already done that, and in those states, you have to use a VPN (virtual private network) to get around the block. Thankfully VPNs are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnet.com\/landing\/best-vpn-sem-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pretty cheap<\/a>. Ironically, many teenagers are already way more familiar with using VPNs than many adults are. It&#8217;s too early to say what traction these legal tactics will have, and of course there&#8217;s the big <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2024\/07\/02\/texas-pornography-age-verification-supreme-court\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Supreme Court case<\/a> coming up in January challenging Texas&#8217;s age verification law which could change everything (or not). More wait and see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, there&#8217;s a law firm in Kansas that&#8217;s using the state&#8217;s new age verification law to solicit potential clients to sue porn website owners. Kansas&#8217;s law (one of the strictest in the country) is designed so that any citizen, not just the state, can bring a lawsuit against a producer. The Kansas law allows for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2092\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Age-Verification Ambulance Chasers<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sandra-here","category-websites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tranniesintrouble.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}