Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton forces Pornhub to shut down in state

Pornhub has shut down its site in Texas after a new state law that requires the company to verify the age of users was approved.

The company issued a statement saying that Texas was violating "the rights of adults to access protected speech” and that the law was “employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’s stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors."

Company executives then explained that "until the real solution is offered, we have made the difficult decision to completely disable access to our website in Texas."

This is great news for American parents and Americans who are working to restrict the proliferation of pornography, especially to American children.

While there are legitimate issues with forcing Americans to upload their identifying information to the internet, the greater victory is in clamping down on pornography distributors that have long grown rich off of spreading explicit material to American children.

As far as Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is concerned, the decision by Pornhub to pull out of Texas is yet another big win in the culture war.