Political Attacks

The response from Texas to the FSC’s lawsuit isn’t so much a legal argument as an attempt to get the court to ignore legal arguments.

Despite a new law that went into effect July 1, the majority of pornography websites are not using required age verification methods for Virginia users.

The interim Attorney General of Texas, Angela Colmenero, issued a response to a lawsuit brought by a coalition of adult content producers over a new law that will require users of adult websites to…

The Texas Department of Health and Human Services declined to confirm or deny whether the “health warnings” mandated by the state’s recent anti-porn age verification law are supported by any official documentation or statement produced by that office.

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Here on Techdirt we’ve chronicled the rise of a bunch of terrible age verification laws, including many focused specifically on adult content. We’ve also highlighted how MindGeek, the company behin…

A Democratic Virginia senator admitted that he and Republican senators used the issue of age verification of adult material as a bargaining chip to negotiate the language of an unrelated piece of legislation.

Pornhub has pulled out of multiple states rather than comply with age-verification laws.

Free Speech Coalition, the advocacy organization for the adult industry, has filed a legal challenge in Texas over the state’s unconstitutional age-verification law. As with laws FSC has challenged laws in Louisiana and Utah, Texas forces consumers to provide identification information to access ad

In a decision this morning, a judge in the United States District Court granted Utah’s Motion to Dismiss Free Speech Coalition’s challenge to the state’s age verification mandate. FSC will appeal the decision.