Pornhub is pushing for states like Texas to rethink their age-verification laws, saying they're ineffective in preventing minors from accessing pornographic content on the internet.

Last week, the company sent a letter to state officials across the United States, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton, calling the current age-verification laws "performative, ineffective, and unenforceable." What they're saying: "We are serious about protecting minors, and lawmakers like yourselves must recognize that these laws have failed at that objective," Pornhub wrote.

"These laws demonstrably do not work and, as a result, have put your constituents' children and adults' personal data at risk. If you truly intend to protect minors online, you must acknowledge the fats and introduce a real solution." The company said platform-by-platform age verification is "impossible to enforce at scale, easy to evade, weak at protecting minors and increases the privacy risk for adults." They argue that using the current system leads to more people searching out riskier, non-compliant sites that open up users to data risks.