- took effect on Wednesday, May 3, 2023.
The law requires commercial providers of pornographic materials to implement reasonable age verification rules.
Some cited methods included presenting state-sanctioned digitized identification cards and third-party verification.
On January 1, Louisiana enacted one of the first such laws to pass in the country.
This caused a 200% surge in VPN demand in the first week of January.
Other age restriction bills have been signed into law in Mississippi (S.B.
- and Arkansas (S.B.
An immediate 72% increase in VPN demand was observed in Mississippi when S.B.
2346 was passed in April.
It is scheduled for implementation on July 1.
In Utah, a similar system has been operational since 2021.
More states with outstanding age restriction bills include Texas (S.B.
- and Montana (S.B.
Past VPN demand surges related to pornographic content restrictions are not limited to age verification laws.
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