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I swear, I think these chucklefucks honestly think that litigating porn out of existence has even the slightest chance of working at all.
Less reputable sites are typically foreign sites, out of the reach of US government, and can continue to just ignore US law enforcement. And even if the US does start investigating them, these sites can pick up and set up shop somewhere else literally overnight. Project 2025's ideas would have zero effect on them.
And regarding the larger sites like Pornhub? Do they think they're just gonna say "Aw, shucks. We cant show people titties any more." Fucking lol. They'll just set up shop overseas, block all US IP addresses, and just conveniently have advertisements for various VPNs on their home page.
Pornhub and the like will continue distributing all the porn. They will continue to make all the money distributing all the porn. Heck, they'll probably make even more all the money hosting advertisements for and partnering with VPN services. And people will continue to watch all the porn. Even if Project 2025 got their way, the great Overseas Porn Migration of 2025 will be merely a moment in time of porn's history. In fact, there will be porn of it.
Yep, they should look at Tumblr as an example. When they banned porn in 2018, they lost a third of their users, the automatic censorship tools were flagging all sorts of non-porn stuff and they reversed the ban four years later.
Wait what? Tumblr has porn again?
I could see a ton of ads like. xYZ VPN sponsored by (pornhubs parent company).
Seeing stuff like this makes me wish Sega was still in the hardware business.