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> Verification raises the barrier and makes performers much more vulnerable since their legal identities are attached to their work.

Producers should have been doing this anyway.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2257

> "... create and maintain individually identifiable records pertaining to every performer portrayed in such a visual depiction."




The industrial producers have been doing that for decades. The problem is that the real goal of these groups is to make sex work harder, not safer.

For example, research on the take-down of reputable sex work sites harms workers by removing their opportunities for safe work.

> the financial situation of the vast majority of research participants has deteriorated, as has their ability to access community and screen clients.

https://antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/artic...




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