Legal Attacks

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.

The Utah Division of Consumer Protection released a proposed rule regulating how social media companies can verify the ages of users.

Anti-porn groups led by former child actor Ricky Shroder filed an amicus brief with the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in the Free Speech Coalition's lawsuit challenging Texas House Bill 1181.

The politics over net neutrality are revitalized. Last month, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel announced that she intends to reinstate net neutrality regulations.

State age-verification laws which create a private right to action to sue are a terrible idea, just like their brethren in other areas of law