Edit: Reposting because linking to a page you can't view in Alabama is apparently breaking the rules.

Dear user,

As you may know, your elected officials in Alabama are requiring us to verify your age before allowing you access to our website. While safety and compliance are at the forefront of our mission, giving your ID card every time you want to visit an adult platform is not the most effective solution for protecting our users, and in fact, will put children and your privacy at risk.

In addition, mandating age verification without proper enforcement gives platforms the opportunity to choose whether or not to comply. As we’ve seen in other states, this just drives traffic to sites with far fewer safety measures in place. Very few sites are able to compare to the robust Trust and Safety measures we currently have in place. To protect children and user privacy, any legislation must be enforced against all platforms offering adult content.

The safety of our users is one of our biggest concerns. We believe that the best and most effective solution for protecting children and adults alike is to identify users by their device and allow access to age-restricted materials and websites based on that identification. Until a real solution is offered, we have made the difficult decision to completely disable access to our website in Alabama.

Please contact your representatives before it is too late and demand device-based verification solutions that make the internet safer while also respecting your privacy.

OK mods this definitely about Alabama

I'm a 31 year old dude from Los Angeles.

Never "been" to the south, the closest thing was my Army boot camp at Fort Benning, GA a decade ago, but you're just stuck on base through that process.

And yes, I'm a more liberal guy so of course in my head I thought "Hur dur it's just rednecks, roll tide, guns, that beaver nugget store, and conservative flags on lawn mowers"

I went out there to visit an Army bud, he lives in mobile. It was not was i was expecting at all, in a good way. First of all, I didn't know Alabama is one giant forest and its so beautiful. Next he took me to fairhope(The NFL QB Philip rivers is from there??) and then down to the gulf shores area, florabama? and all the resorts and stuff there. Some restaurant over looking the coast called "The gulf" and Zeke's.

I had no idea how beautiful the gulf was, and the sand is from a fantasy novel I swear. And the people? Nice as hell and could talk to me for 30 mins straight. I went to a bucees for the first time ever and looked like a lost foreign tourist in there and I asked the brisket guy what I should get and he spent like 15 mins passionately talking about how they make it and what he likes and all that. Super laid back. I walked out of there with 2 buccees shirts, a buccee fanny pack, a buccees 4th of July underwear, a brisket sandwich, key lime pie, beaver nuggets, and a large sweet tea lol

Granted idk if everyone at the gulf resort area was Alabaman because I saw SO MANY Tennesee, Kentucky, and Florida license plates, but I assume the culture and hospitality is all similar.

I ended the trip 6 lbs heavier due to the excessive sweet tea and bbq I ate during my 1.5 weeks there.

Anyways, your state is pretty, your nature is pretty, the people I met were friendly, the beaches are gorgeous, and your food rocks. I couldn't live here simply because I'd be obese within a year.

I came to Alabama naive, glad I was proven wrong.

for all the beauty in this state, there's a lot of ugly as well...