Legal Attacks

Democratic governor of North Carolina Roy Cooper ignored the arguments of free speech advocates and signed into law on Monday a bill mandating age verification on adult websites.

The high court will rule on a pair of laws that could drastically change how Section 230 is interpreted.

South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson, along with 25 other attorneys general largely from Republican-controlled states, sent an open letter to Pornhub parent company Aylo on Friday demanding explanations about a supposed “loophole” that allowed users to post CSAM.

A justice on the Ontario Superior Court this week dismissed a challenge to a controversial law governing sex work in Canada.

A Texas law requiring websites to verify visitors’ ages before providing them with adult content violates the First Amendment and should be blocked, free-speech advocates told a federal appeals court.

A coalition of civil society groups expressed opposition to a bill that they claim is similar to the EARN IT Act.

As Anna Gomez ascends to the fifth seat on the FCC, the federal regulator is poised to finally reinstate net neutrality.

A sensationalistic report released this week by a French government office is urging immediate state censorship and broad criminalization of the adult industry in France and worldwide.

A recently passed bill that would require CSAM reporting for virtually all web platforms that operate in California is being called a "mini" version of FOSTA.

A religious conservative group that is currently lobbying for the North Carolina age verification legislation that was snuck into an unrelated bill last week by a Republican state senator has admitted the copycat amendment is in fact “an anti-pornography provision.”