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      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Missouri Revisor of Statutes: official statute site",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Missouri's official statute site is the Missouri Revisor of Statutes at revisor.mo.gov, maintained by the Missouri Legislature",
      "body": "Missouri's official statute site is the Missouri Revisor of Statutes at revisor.mo.gov, maintained by the Missouri Legislature\n\nWhat Missouri Legislature actually says:\n\n“Missouri Revisor of Statutes - Revised Statutes of Missouri(RSMo)”\n\nNote: Anchor record for batch 274",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/Home.aspx",
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      "subject": "Missouri Revisor of Statutes",
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      "id": "learn_r274_missouri_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_mo_a_no_age_verification_statute",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Absence of age-verification statute",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Missouri has no age-verification statute in force; searching the Missouri Revised Statutes code index for 'age verification' returned no match across all 473 indexed chapters/sections",
      "body": "Missouri has no age-verification statute in force; searching the Missouri Revised Statutes code index for 'age verification' returned no match across all 473 indexed chapters/sections\n\nWhat Missouri Legislature actually says:\n\n“NO MATCH in Missouri's code index for \"age verification\" (473 chapters/sections indexed from 4 pages).”\n\nNote: The absence is evidenced by the code index search result quoted above, searched on 2026-09-24. Indexes opened: revisor.mo.gov/main/Home.aspx (full chapter listing) and revisor.mo.gov search function. Search terms: 'age verification', 'verification', 'adult', 'indecent', 'internet', 'obscenity', 'pornography', 'sexual', 'protected', 'harlot'. No statute titled or describing age-verification duties for creators or platforms was found. This is a tier-A source (the official code index itself) but confidence is 'contested' because an absence inferred from an index is weaker than a statute's operative text.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/Home.aspx",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "STRONG PRACTICE",
      "source_tier": "A",
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      "evidence_quote": "NO MATCH in Missouri's code index for \"age verification\" (473 chapters/sections indexed from 4 pages).",
      "volatility": "low",
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      "subject": "Missouri age-verification law",
      "topic": "absence of age-verification statute",
      "applies_to_country": "US",
      "applies_to_scope": "Searched Missouri's official code index at revisor.mo.gov using terms 'age verification', 'verification', 'adult', 'inde",
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      "id": "learn_r274_missouri_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_mo_b_chapter_573_bounds",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Who Chapter 573 binds",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Chapter 573 regulates sexually oriented businesses (adult bookstores, adult cabarets, adult motion picture theaters, semi-nude model studios, sexual encounter centers) and persons who 'promote' obscene or explicit material -- it does not describe an individual creator selling their own content through a third-party platform as a regulated entity",
      "body": "Chapter 573 regulates sexually oriented businesses (adult bookstores, adult cabarets, adult motion picture theaters, semi-nude model studios, sexual encounter centers) and persons who 'promote' obscene or explicit material -- it does not describe an individual creator selling their own content through a third-party platform as a regulated entity\n\nWhat Missouri Legislature actually says:\n\n“REGULATION OF SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES\n\n573.525 Purpose — findings.\n573.531 Establishment of business, prohibited where — nudity in establishment ...\n573.534 Strict liability not imposed — mental state required for violation — act by ...\n573.537 Violations, penalty — public nuisance for repeated violations — state ...\n573.540 No state preemption on regulation — consistency with state law required for ...”\n\nNote: Chapter 573 heading listing read from revisor.mo.gov/main/OneChapter.aspx?chapter=573 on 2026-09-24. The chapter regulates 'sexually oriented businesses' as defined in 573.010(22) -- adult bookstores, adult cabarets, adult motion picture theaters, semi-nude model studios, sexual encounter centers -- and criminalizes promoting obscenity, furnishing pornographic materials to minors, public display of explicit sexual material, etc. An individual creator selling their own content through a platform like OnlyFans does not fit the 'sexually oriented business' definition, which requires a physical 'premises' (573.010(15): 'the real property upon which a sexually oriented business is located'). No individual-creator duty is stated anywhere in Chapter 573.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneChapter.aspx?chapter=573",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
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      "source_publisher": "Missouri Legislature",
      "evidence_quote": "REGULATION OF SEXUALLY ORIENTED BUSINESSES\n\n573.525 Purpose — findings.\n573.531 Establishment of business, prohibited where — nudity in establishment ...\n573.534 Strict liability not imposed — mental state required for violation — act by ...\n573.537 Violations, penalty — public nuisance for repeated violations — state ...\n573.540 No state preemption on regulation — consistency with state law required for ...",
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      "subject": "Missouri Rev. Stat. § 573 (Pornography and Related Offenses)",
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      "id": "learn_r274_missouri_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_mo_c_explicit_sexual_material_definition",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Missouri Rev. Stat. § 573.010(6): definition of explicit sexual material",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Missouri defines 'explicit sexual material' as any pictorial or three-dimensional material depicting human masturbation, deviate sexual intercourse, sexual intercourse, direct physical stimulation or unclothed genitals, sadomasochistic abuse, or emphasizing the depiction of postpubertal human genitals, with an exception for works of art or anthropological significance",
      "body": "Missouri defines 'explicit sexual material' as any pictorial or three-dimensional material depicting human masturbation, deviate sexual intercourse, sexual intercourse, direct physical stimulation or unclothed genitals, sadomasochistic abuse, or emphasizing the depiction of postpubertal human genitals, with an exception for works of art or anthropological significance\n\nWhat Missouri Legislature actually says:\n\n“(6) \"Explicit sexual material\", any pictorial or three-dimensional material depicting human masturbation, deviate sexual intercourse, sexual intercourse, direct physical stimulation or unclothed genitals, sadomasochistic abuse, or emphasizing the depiction of postpubertal human genitals; provided, however, that works of art or of anthropological significance shall not be deemed to be within the foregoing definition;”\n\nNote: Read from section 573.010(6) at revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=573.010 on 2026-09-24. This definition applies within Chapter 573 and is relevant to what content falls under Missouri's pornography-related offenses, but it does not create an age-verification duty for creators.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=573.010",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Missouri Legislature",
      "evidence_quote": "(6) \"Explicit sexual material\", any pictorial or three-dimensional material depicting human masturbation, deviate sexual intercourse, sexual intercourse, direct physical stimulation or unclothed genitals, sadomasochistic abuse, or emphasizing the depiction of postpubertal human genitals; provided, however, that works of art or of anthropological significance shall not be deemed to be within the foregoing definition;",
      "volatility": "low",
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      "subject": "Missouri Rev. Stat. § 573.010(6)",
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        "explicitness": "explicit_solo"
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      "verification": {
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      "id": "learn_r274_missouri_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_mo_d_minor_and_child_definitions",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Missouri Rev. Stat. § 573.010(3)(9): definitions of child and minor",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Missouri defines 'Child' as any person under the age of fourteen and 'Minor' as any person less than eighteen years of age for purposes of Chapter 573 offenses",
      "body": "Missouri defines 'Child' as any person under the age of fourteen and 'Minor' as any person less than eighteen years of age for purposes of Chapter 573 offenses\n\nWhat Missouri Legislature actually says:\n\n“(3) \"Child\", any person under the age of fourteen;\n (9) \"Minor\", any person less than eighteen years of age;”\n\nNote: Read from section 573.010(3) and (9) at revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=573.010 on 2026-09-24. These definitions govern child sexual abuse material offenses, not age-verification duties for creators.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=573.010",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
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      "source_tier": "A",
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      "evidence_quote": "(3) \"Child\", any person under the age of fourteen;\n (9) \"Minor\", any person less than eighteen years of age;",
      "volatility": "low",
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      "subject": "Missouri Rev. Stat. § 573.010(3)(9)",
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      "id": "learn_r274_missouri_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_mo_e_sexually_oriented_business_definition",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Missouri Rev. Stat. § 573.010(22): definition of sexually oriented business",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Missouri defines 'Sexually oriented business' to include adult bookstores, adult cabarets, adult motion picture theaters, semi-nude model studios, and sexual encounter centers -- all requiring physical premises",
      "body": "Missouri defines 'Sexually oriented business' to include adult bookstores, adult cabarets, adult motion picture theaters, semi-nude model studios, and sexual encounter centers -- all requiring physical premises\n\nWhat Missouri Legislature actually says:\n\n“(22) \"Sexually oriented business\" includes:\n (a) An adult bookstore or adult video store. \"Adult bookstore\" or \"adult video store\" means a commercial establishment which, as one of its principal business activities, offers for sale or rental for any form of consideration any one or more of the following: books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed matter, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, compact discs, digital video discs, slides, or other visual representations which are characterized by their emphasis upon the display of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.\n (b) An adult cabaret;\n (c) An adult motion picture theater. \"Adult motion picture theater\" means a commercial establishment where films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or similar photographic reproductions, which are characterized by their emphasis upon the display of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas are regularly shown to more than five persons for any form of consideration;\n (d) A semi-nude model studio. \"Semi-nude model studio\" means a place where persons regularly appear in a state of semi-nudity for money or any form of consideration in order to be observed, sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed, or similarly depicted by other persons.\n (e) A sexual encounter center. \"Sexual encounter center\" means a business or commercial enterprise that, as one of its principal purposes, purports to offer for any form of consideration physical contact in the form of wrestling or tumbling between two or more persons when one or more of the persons is semi-nude;”\n\nNote: Read from section 573.010(22) at revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=573.010 on 2026-09-24. Every category requires physical premises ('commercial establishment', 'place where persons regularly appear'). An individual creator posting content online through a platform does not fit any of these definitions.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=573.010",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
      "source_publisher": "Missouri Legislature",
      "evidence_quote": "(22) \"Sexually oriented business\" includes:\n (a) An adult bookstore or adult video store. \"Adult bookstore\" or \"adult video store\" means a commercial establishment which, as one of its principal business activities, offers for sale or rental for any form of consideration any one or more of the following: books, magazines, periodicals, or other printed matter, or photographs, films, motion pictures, video cassettes, compact discs, digital video discs, slides, or other visual representations which are characterized by their emphasis upon the display of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas.\n (b) An adult cabaret;\n (c) An adult motion picture theater. \"Adult motion picture theater\" means a commercial establishment where films, motion pictures, video cassettes, slides, or similar photographic reproductions, which are characterized by their emphasis upon the display of specified sexual activities or specified anatomical areas are regularly shown to more than five persons for any form of consideration;\n (d) A semi-nude model studio. \"Semi-nude model studio\" means a place where persons regularly appear in a state of semi-nudity for money or any form of consideration in order to be observed, sketched, drawn, painted, sculptured, photographed, or similarly depicted by other persons.\n (e) A sexual encounter center. \"Sexual encounter center\" means a business or commercial enterprise that, as one of its principal purposes, purports to offer for any form of consideration physical contact in the form of wrestling or tumbling between two or more persons when one or more of the persons is semi-nude;",
      "volatility": "low",
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      "subject": "Missouri Rev. Stat. § 573.010(22)",
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    {
      "id": "learn_r274_missouri_age_verification_as_it_lands_on_a_creator_mo_f_information_content_providers",
      "category": "Safety",
      "title": "[Unverified - being checked] Missouri Rev. Stat. § 573.570(1)(3): definition of information content providers in digital depiction law",
      "summary": "[Unverified - being checked] Missouri's 2026 'Disclosure of an intimate digital depiction' statute (573.570) defines 'Information content providers' as any person or entity responsible for the creation or development of information provided through the internet or any other interactive computer service",
      "body": "Missouri's 2026 'Disclosure of an intimate digital depiction' statute (573.570) defines 'Information content providers' as any person or entity responsible for the creation or development of information provided through the internet or any other interactive computer service\n\nWhat Missouri Legislature actually says:\n\n“(3) \"Information content providers\", any person or entity that is responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of information provided through the internet or any other interactive computer service;”\n\nNote: Read from section 573.570(1)(3) at revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=573.570 on 2026-09-24. Effective 28 Aug 2026. This statute criminalizes non-consensual disclosure of intimate digital depictions and explicitly shields interactive computer service providers from liability for voluntarily restricting access (573.570(5)). It does not impose age-verification duties on individual creators.",
      "source_type": "official",
      "source_link": "https://revisor.mo.gov/main/OneSection.aspx?section=573.570",
      "last_verified": "2026-09-24",
      "reliability": "VERIFIED RULE",
      "source_tier": "A",
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      "evidence_quote": "(3) \"Information content providers\", any person or entity that is responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of information provided through the internet or any other interactive computer service;",
      "volatility": "medium",
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      "subject": "Missouri Rev. Stat. § 573.570(1)(3)",
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      "applies_to_scope": "This is the closest Missouri statute to a platform/creator duty in the digital space, but it addresses non-consensual in",
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