XHamster.com has banned all computers from North Carolina from watching porn on their site, users will only find a black screen.
XHamster will continue to block viewers in North Carolina until they repeal House Bill 2, commonly referred to as the Bathroom Law passed on March 23rd that blocks cities and local governments from passing anti-discrimination measures that could protect gay and transgender people.
Mike Kulich an XHamster.com spokesman, says: “We have spent the last 50 years fighting for equality for everyone and these laws are discriminatory which XHamster.com does not tolerate,” he said in an official statement sent to The Huffington Post. “Judging by the stats of what you North Carolinians watch, we feel this punishment is a severe one. We will not standby and pump revenue into a system that promotes this type of garbage. We respect all sexualities and embrace them…: Kulich continued to say, “Back in March, we had 400,000 hits for the term ‘Transsexual’ from North Carolina alone,” he said. “People from that state searched ‘Gay’ 319,907 times,” he added.
This paints a pretty good picture that North Carolinians are much more open minded than this law would indicate and XHamster joins an ever growing list of companies and artists who have voiced their frustrations with this new law.
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