The War on Porn

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.

X.com users have started reporting instances of Elon Musk’s new shadowban transparency policy, where accounts are flagged by the company without user input for “potentially” containing sensitive media.

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.

Sex workers say their NSFW accounts on X (formerly Twitter) have been restricted in reach and hidden from search results.

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

A Montana federal judge on Thursday tore into a contested state law that bans TikTok from all personal devices, saying in a hearing that the legislation appears driven by “paternalistic” views of social media users and suggesting lawmakers could have taken many steps short of an attempted ban to ach…