The War on Porn

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.”

It’s pretty much the way of the world: beyond the basic enshittification story that has been so well told over the past year or so about how companies get worse and worse as they get more and more …

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

A lengthy brief filed in a federal appeals court in Texas supporting the state’s new controversial age verification and mandatory labeling law was authored by an extreme-right Virginia attorney with Trump links on behalf of an obscure organization led by a Colorado-based religious conservative activ…

The journalists behind the so-called "Pornhub Tapes" series of investigative videos have been threatened with legal action by counsel retained by Pornhub's parent company, Aylo (formerly MindGeek).

Alphabet, the parent company of Google and YouTube, has offered a “Legislative Framework” for protecting kids online.

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.