Legislative Review: A Look at the Laws Taking Effect in North Dakota

Legislative review: A look at the laws taking effect in North Dakota

NORTH DAKOTA (KXNET) — Throughout the last several months, KX News has been tracking the bills and laws that have been put in place during the legislature, affecting North Dakotans. Today is the day for a lot of those laws to take effect. It's been months, even years' worth of work for our state legislators leading to today. While there is quite the laundry list of bills, there are several key pieces of legislation that North Dakotans could see …

Pornhub goes dark in North Dakota after age verification law takes effect

BISMARCK — On Friday, Aug. 1, North Dakota joined 20 other states in requiring websites with explicit sexual content to verify the age of users, causing at least one digital vendor to block every site visitor in the state from viewing its content. When visiting Pornhub, one of the world's largest adult content websites, a message appears saying the company has made the "difficult decision to completely disable access" to its content for all user…

SEN. JASINSKI: New laws taking effect Aug. 1

Each year, Aug. 1 marks the start date for new laws passed during the legislative session. I want to highlight a few changes that may impact people in our communities. Just to be clear, this column is only meant to…

Best VPN for North Dakota: Pornhub workarounds

Beginning on August 1 of this year, residents in North Dakota will lose access to the adult site Pornhub. Earlier this year the North Dakota State legislature passed SB 2380, which requires "manufacturers of internet-enabled devices and operating systems to determine the age of the device's primary user and provide a digital signal to inform websites whether that user is a minor"-and porn sites fall under this category. The law will take effect …