A comprehensive read on the current OSA state of play; notable is reportage of commentary by the age verification lobby’s Iain Corby apparently suggesting that the OSA is geared at protecting younger kids, also contradicting PornHub’s own reports of traffic drops:

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AVPA agrees. Corby brings some heavy numbers to his talk, claiming that the association’s members saw 5.7 million age checks on the first weekend after the OSA came into effect. He argues that the VPN download statistics are skewed: “even if there were two or three million extra downloads of VPNs, that only really matters if it was a lot of 8-year-olds doing that. If it’s adults doing it just because they don’t want the trouble of doing that age check, then that’s not actually getting in the way of the implementation of the policy at all.”

…which makes me wonder whether they care about the collateral privacy and freedom damage on 16yo kids.

Good read at:

Is age verification killing porn site traffic? Aylo says yes, AVPA says no