Judge largely blocks Tennessee's porn site age verification law as other states enforce theirs Supreme Court will hear Texas anti-pornography law US appeals court hears oral arguments on Florida ban on transgender care for minors “We see no reason to keep Tennessee’s law on ice while Texas ...
Last year, Louisiana passedAct 440, which requires visitors to sites with over 33.33 percent of adult content to use a commercial age-verification system (AVS) to prove they're over 18, such as with a government-issued ID. The law went into effect on Jan. 1,2023. An influx of similar ...
Senior U.S. District Court Judge David Alan Ezra said the age-verification requirement likely violates the First Amendment, in part because it restricts adults' access to constitutionally protected speech based on the material's content. The judge concluded that the law is overbroad and overly res...
An adult entertainment industry group has filed a lawsuit challenging a new Utah law that requires porn websites to implement age verification mechanisms to block minors from accessing sexually explicit materials. The law took effect Wednesday, making Ut
Louisiana's HB142 went into effect in Jan, requiring age verification for online porn. Penalties are harsh so Porn Hub made strict requirements: govt issued ID. More states are following suit. Where is Texas on this list? Tag your rep and find out.https://t.co/cXBvf3tVun ...
Pornhub has gone dark in Texas in protest of the state’s age verification law, which requires porn sites to verify a user’s age before they access the site.
Pornhub has shut off access in Mississippi and Virginia to protest age verification laws that can involve checking government IDs. It previously blocked access in Utah.
Porn sites aren’t the only ones to face calls for age verification. State and federal lawmakers have increasingly pushed to mandate a minimum age for social media use, too. Last week, US senators proposed a nationwide ban on social media use for children under 13. Age requirements for socia...
Device-based age verification, Tiwari said, could have “very serious privacy connotations, because you now have the largest tech companies in the world having your government ID and all the information present in them linked to individual devices. We’ve seen Twitter use phone numbers they collec...
This commentary presents regulatory mechanisms recently proposed or passed by countries around the world requiring providers of online pornography to implement age-verification technologies. Canada's "Protecting Young Persons from Exposure to Pornography" Act (PYPEPA) is presented as a k...