The pornographic website PornHub has added Florida to the list of states to be blocked starting next year. reports that Floridians who visited the porn website were recently greeted with a warning that said “You will lose access to PornHub in 14 days” thanks to a new state law that ID is required to visit the website.

PornHub has blocked several states from accessing its wealth of sexually explicit content because of new state laws that require visitors to provide a valid government ID to verify. an their age for access. The Florida legislature passed and Governor Ron DeSantis signed this law on March 25 as part of a series of regulations intended to protect minors from explicit materials. The adult entertainment trade association The Free Speech Coalition is fighting the Florida law in federal court, according to .

Florida will become the 13th state to enact an age verification law for adult websites. Florida follows , Arkansas, Virginia, Mississippi, all of which have ID verification laws on their books.

“Not only does it prevent the rights of adults to access protected speech, it fails strict scrutiny by using the least effective and yet most restrictive means of enforcement (of the state) stated purpose of said protection of minors,” according to

The PornHub blog also says that the company is concerned about the safety and well-being of children but the idea of ​​using identification creates many risks to the safety and privacy of users. The Louisiana law in particular does not have a state regulator overseeing the implementation of the new laws “which has resulted in a flawed enforcement regime,” the PornHub blog says.