Thousands of Alabamians Call for Repeal of Age-Verification Law — Free Speech Coalition

For the reason that October 1st implementation of Alabama’s new age-verification mandate, hundreds of Alabamians have reached out to Gov. Kay Ivey and different legislators, demanding they repeal the legislation. In accordance with information from Free Speech Coalition’s Defend On-line Privateness portal, Alabamians have despatched over 5,000 messages to their state officers because the legislation took impact. 

HB164 mandates age-verification for all guests, the show of a pseudoscientific “public well being warning” and a ten% tax on the gross income of any firm that operates an grownup web site. Moreover, grownup performers who seem in commercially-distributed content material should have their mannequin releases signed by a notary.

“Alabamians are proper to be outraged,” says Alison Boden, Government Director of Free Speech Coalition. “They, like all People, ought to be capable of entry the web with out sacrificing their privateness. We share their anger and hope that Alabama’s elected officers will hearken to their constituents and repeal HB164.”

DefendOnlinePrivacy.com is FSC’s 50-state portal that connects voters affected by age-verification legal guidelines with their legislators. Platforms that block a state in response to an age-verification legislation can reroute their visitors to the portal to elucidate their resolution and let these affected by these legal guidelines flip outrage into motion.