The War on Porn

A US citizen by the name of Taylor Whitemore has been arrested by the local police for violating Indonesia’s laws against producing and selling porn.

Indonesia Arrests U.S. Citizen for Creating Adult Content AVN

U.S. citizen Taylor Kirby Whitemore was arrested on March 25 by local law enforcement for violating Indonesia's laws about producing and selling adult content while in the country.

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The Australian eSafety Commissioner is looking at a final draft of laws to protect children from porn.

Australian eSafety Commissioner Demands Stricter Child Protection Codes

Australia’s online safety regulator, eSafety, is once again reviewing a “final” draft of industry codes to protect children from pornography and other age-inappropriate content, after eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant rejected the previously announced “final” codes as insufficiently stringent.

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The country of Sweden has made online sex work illegal. That includes creator work and camming.

Sweden Outlaws Online Sex Work AVN

The unicameral Riksdag, Sweden's Parliament, adopted a new law today that criminalizes the purchase of online sexual services, according to a press release published by the Swedish legislative body.

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The Kyrgyzstan Parliament approved a bill to outlaw porn in the country.

Kyrgyzstan Parliament Moves to Outlaw Internet Pornography

A parliamentary committee of the Supreme Council of Kyrgyzstan on Tuesday approved a measure to outlaw online adult content in the country.

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A warning that The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, now in Congress, would ban porn.

New GOP bill would basically ban porn, experts warn

The Interstate Obscenity Definition Act would rewrite SCOTUS’s definition of obscenity.

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An update on age verification laws since the Utah law 2 years ago.

PornHub blocked Utah 2 years ago. A lot has happened since

Since Utah passed its age verification law, around 20 other states have followed suit. A free speech challenge to Texas’s law will soon be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Wired interviewed top porn stars at the Pornhub Awards about age verification.

Your Favorite Porn Stars Are Sick of Being Censored. But They’re Not Going Away

We spent the Pornhub Awards with some of the site’s biggest stars to talk censorship, making money, and the popularity of trans porn—all while the site is blocked in more than a third of US states.

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The FSC has published a guide for what adult sites need to know about the UK’s Online Safety Act.

Age Verification in the UK: What You Need to Know — Free Speech Coalition

The United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act (OSA) went into effect earlier this year, which (among many other things) requires websites (or “services”) that provide adult content to implement age verification for traffic coming from the UK. Ofcom, the regulator charged with enforcing the OSA, has put out

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The EU has published guidelines for websites on their Digital Services Act.

EU Proposes Digital Services Act Rules for All Online Platforms AVN

The European Commission published its proposed guidelines for enforcing the Digital Services Act on Tuesday, making them available for public comment.

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The website motherless.com is being investigated by the UK’s comm regulator Ofcom for violations of the country’s online safety act.

Motherless.com Being Investigated by Ofcom AVN

Ofcom, the United Kingdom's communications regulator, announced that it is investigating adult tube website Motherless.com for Online Safety Act violations.

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