Pornhub has slammed the brakes on Texas users accessing its site. Following a lawsuit by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for not toeing the line on a new state law requiring age verification, the adult entertainment giant clapped back by completely disabling its service for all of Texas. The contentious law wants adults to pony up some form of ID verification to protect minors, but the porn site is calling foul.

According to FOX 26 Houston, Pornhub's shutdown is a direct response to HB 1181, signed into law by Governor Greg Abbott last year. The site's letter didn't mince words: "Attempting to mandate age verification without any means to effectively enforce at scale gives platforms the choice to comply or not, leaving thousands of platforms open and accessible." The Texas-sized wrestling match doesn't stop there—Paxton's lawsuit is gunning to smack down Aylo Global Entertainment, Pornhub's parent company, with fines to the tune of $1.6 million plus an extra $10,000 daily since his legal offensive started.

Mess with Texas? Pornhub's not having it. They've taken their ball home until what they deem a "real solution" is offered. "The safety of our users is one of our biggest concerns," Pornhub stated. "We believe that the only effective solution for protecting minors and adults alike is to verify users’ age on their devices and to either deny or allow access to age-restricted materials and websites based on that verification."

Striking a balance between user privacy and protecting minors is turning out to be a real hot potato. As reported by The Hill, Pornhub argued that the new law infringes on "the rights of adults to access protected speech" and fails to totally pass muster by "employing the least effective and yet also most restrictive means of accomplishing Texas’s stated purpose of allegedly protecting minors." Amidst all this, Paxton touted the court's ruling as an "important victory," confident in the state's moves to safeguard Texas's Web-surfing.