Legal Attacks

A coalition of civil society groups, including several sex workers’ rights activists, have asked the European Commission in a letter to regulate the most prominent porn websites in the world as “very large online platforms” under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA).

The new Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson — elected Wednesday by his GOP colleagues after a weeks-long stalemate — vowed last year to promote anti-sex education, anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-porn legislation if he ever had the authority.

A lawsuit brought by California and more than 30 state attorneys general against Meta Platforms Inc. for allegedly enticing children onto Instagram and Facebook with addictive features will likely accelerate an already roiling national debate over how internet companies should limit access by minors…

A bill years in the making.

Meta is taking on 42 states in what will likely lead to a multidistrict jurisdictional settlement.

“Introducing criminal penalties for failing to verify a user’s age is a significant First Amendment violation… And, of course, this law would impact all people – not just minors.”

The Woodhull Freedom Foundation will be presenting three upcoming online events.

Germany’s federal media regulator has initiated steps to order a block Pornhub, YouPorn and MyDirtyHobby, in an escalation of the country’s war against adult content online over age verification, a campaign which has been largely spearheaded by a single local bureaucrat.

The French parliament voted through a sweeping digital regulation requiring age verification for adult entertainment websites.

A Texas age verification law requiring adult sites to warn about the dangers of watching pornography intentionally misrepresents science, a researcher says.