TEXAS— One of the country's largest adult entertainment websites has shut down services in Texas. Pornhub issued the content ban following a lawsuit from Attorney General Ken Paxton. He accused Pornhub's parent company, Aylo Global Entertainment, of violating HB 1181, a Texas law that ...
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Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas in response to the state’s online age verification law. The site now displays a message to users in the state that says having to provide an ID when accessing an adult website “is not an effective solution for protecting users online.” Last year,...
Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti, who applauded the ruling, noted that the age verification requirement passed unanimously in the Republican-supermajority Legislature. “As the Court of Appeals noted, this law seeks to stem the flow of toxic content to kids and keep adult websites adul...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed open to a Texas law aimed at blocking kids from seeing online pornography, though the justices could still send it back to a lower court for more consideration of how the age verification measure affects adults' free-speech rights. Texas is ...
Rather than require adult-oriented websites to individually check visitors' identities, a device-based system would hold verification of a users' age on their phone, tablet, computer, or device manufacturer's network. Devices would come with blocks on child-unfriendly websites pre-installed, with...
By blocking access to Texas netizens, Pornhub is complying with the age verification law, which was passed last year. A federal appeals courtuphelda Texas law that requires more vigorous age-verification measures but ruled against a portion of the law that would require pornographic websites to ...
Around the globe, much needed online age verification is growing at a rapid rate as the process is incredibly easy to implement and maintain. Recently the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Texas can keep enforcing HB 1181, lifting a federal judge’s previous injunction blocking the law...
Tennessee will make it a felony for a minor to access an adult content website without age verification starting Jan. 1. Gov. Bill Lee recently signed the bill into law, making the offense a class C felony and making the entity liable for damages, including attorney’s costs and court fee...
“Is the statement of … First Amendment principle that you’re seeking at a broad level: ‘Age verification requirements are permissible, so long as they’re not overly burdensome on adult access?’” Kavanaugh asked at one point of Texas Solicitor General Aaron Nielson. ...