Mastercard last week informed acquirers about updates to its Business Risk Assessment and Mitigation (BRAM) standards for adult content, including verbiage addressing deepfakes

Crypto isn’t a new financial system; it’s a layer on the old one.

Free Speech Coalition Executive Director Alison Boden will present FSC’s banking and financial discrimination work to the Association of Club Executives at the ACE National Board Meeting in Las Vegas this weekend. Boden was invited to present at the club owners’ annual meeting following the publicat

FITZPATRICK’S FOE DETAILS PORN ADDICTION

Here on Techdirt we’ve chronicled the rise of a bunch of terrible age verification laws, including many focused specifically on adult content. We’ve also highlighted how MindGeek, the company behin…

A Democratic Virginia senator admitted that he and Republican senators used the issue of age verification of adult material as a bargaining chip to negotiate the language of an unrelated piece of legislation.

Google’s updated policies allowing individuals to remove “personal, explicit images” from Google Search results will not affect most commercial images created by a third-party with appropriate contacts and releases.

Pornhub has pulled out of multiple states rather than comply with age-verification laws.

Is sending kids into the wilderness really the best way to keep them off Pornhub?

Free Speech Coalition, the advocacy organization for the adult industry, has filed a legal challenge in Texas over the state’s unconstitutional age-verification law. As with laws FSC has challenged laws in Louisiana and Utah, Texas forces consumers to provide identification information to access ad