May 30, 2025
Legal Attacks, Political Attacks, Religious Attacks, The War on Porn
The Free Speech Coalition has issued guidance on Kansas age verification lawsuits.
Private Age Verification Lawsuits in Kansas: What You Need to Know — Free Speech Coalition
In four lawsuits filed on May 12, 2025, a minor identified as Q.R., through his mother, claims he accessed adult sites in Kansas without encountering legally compliant age verification protocols. They are suing four different sites for approximately $14 million dollars in damages. This is the first
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May 29, 2025
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Mississippi has added civil penalties for supposed obscenity to their age verification law.
Mississippi Set to Enforce Age Verification Bounty Law AVN
Starting on July 1, 2025, the state of Mississippi will begin enforcing a brand new civil tort adopted this year that is attached to an existing age verification law that could potentially prove costly to major adult platforms.
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avn.com
May 29, 2025
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A lawsuit challenging Florida’s law that requires strippers to be 21 or over was dropped.
Lawsuit Challenging Florida Stripper Age Restriction Dropped AVN
A federal district judge dismissed a case Wednesday that involved two Florida strip clubs, an adult retailer and a 19-year-old performer challenging the state government's ban on working in an adult entertainment venue for adults under the age of 21.
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avn.com
May 25, 2025
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Luxembourg officials have told the French government they will not cooperate in holding the owners of LiveJasmin, based in Luxembourg, as violating France’s age verification law.
Luxembourg Rejects Request to Enforce French AV Law
Government officials in Luxembourg have rebuffed a French government request to help enforce France’s Security and Regulation of the Digital Space (SREN) law by taking action against webcam platform LiveJasmin, the Luxembourg Times is reporting.
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www.xbiz.com
May 23, 2025
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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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www.xbiz.com
May 21, 2025
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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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avn.com
May 17, 2025
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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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mashable.com
May 17, 2025
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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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www.kuer.org
May 17, 2025
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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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www.wired.com
May 16, 2025
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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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