May 23, 2025
Legal Attacks, 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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May 23, 2025
Legal Attacks, Political Attacks, The War on Porn
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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May 21, 2025
Legal Attacks, Political Attacks, The War on Porn
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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May 21, 2025
Legal Attacks, Religious Attacks, The War on Porn
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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May 17, 2025
Legal Attacks, Political Attacks, The War on Porn
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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May 17, 2025
Legal Attacks, Political Attacks, The War on Porn
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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May 17, 2025
Legal Attacks, Political Attacks, The War on Porn
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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May 16, 2025
Legal Attacks, Political Attacks, The War on Porn
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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www.freespeechcoalition.com
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May 16, 2025
Legal Attacks, Political Attacks, The War on Porn
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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May 15, 2025
Legal Attacks, Political Attacks, The War on Porn
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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