The War on Porn

Payment processing companies are pressuring large AI porn sites to censor their material.

Payment Processors Are Pushing AI Porn Off Its Biggest Platforms

Creators of AI image models for porn and celebrities are running out of easy hosting options as Civitai and Tensor.Art change their policies under pressure.

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Pornhub is considering a return to Texas, while the state has resumed a lawsuit against them.

Pornhub Texas Return Possible After High Court Age Check Ruling

Pornhub is considering whether to resume operations in Texas after the porn industry lost a Supreme Court challenge over the state’s age-verification requirements last month, its lawyer said in court Thursday.

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The gaming platform Steam has banned some adult games due to the regulations of their payment processors.

Steam Bans Certain Adult Content to Appease Payment Processors AVN

Valve Corporation, the parent company of popular gaming website Steam, recently announced that "certain kinds of adult content” have been banned on the platform.

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In France, porn sites have been ordered to practice age verification.

France’s Council of State Orders Porn Sites to Check Ages AVN

The high administrative court of France ruled in favor of the government Tuesday in a legal dispute over whether adult entertainment platforms have to verify the ages of users originating from IP addresses in the country's digital space.

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Reddit and Bluesky will not practice age verification, due to the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act.

Bluesky, Reddit to Verify Ages of U.K. Users AVN

Social media networks Bluesky and Reddit are now overhauling their trust and safety programs in compliance with the United Kingdom's age verification requirements established under the Online Safety Act of 2023.

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Five countries in the European Union, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, and Spain, will test the region’s new age verification app.

Five EU Member States Test Bloc’s Age Verification App AVN

Five member states of the European Union are preparing to deploy the bloc's white-label age verification app as a pilot program.

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Justice Elena Kagan criticized the Supreme Court’s “terrible logic” in their ruling against the FSC and for the state of  Texas on age verification.

Elena Kagan Torches Supreme Court’s Terrible Logic in Porn Ruling

The Supreme Court upheld a decision allowing age-verification laws for online porn.

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An opinion piece from PornBiz on age verification.

The Scam of Age Verification - PORNBIZ.COM

A lot has happened in the past month: the EU Commission (the executive branch of the EU) publicly attacked the three largest porn sites — including us — over our supposed obligation to prevent minor access, while completely ignoring far larger mainstream platforms.

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Yet another state has adopted age verification, this time the state of Ohio.

Ohio Governor Adopts Age Verification Rider in State Budget Bill AVN

Ohio became the latest state in the United States to adopt age verification measures that target adult entertainment websites, which were attached to the state appropriations bill that was signed into law by Republican state Gov. Mike DeWine last week.

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Chinese police have arrested numerous erotica writers for violating their porn and obscenity laws.

Chinese Authorities Arrest Female Erotica Authors AVN

Police in China have arrested at least 30 writers, nearly all of them women in their 20s, for violating the country's punitive pornography and obscenity laws.

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