Political Attacks

A district court in Utah has dismissed the FSC’s lawsuit challenging the state’s age-verification law. FSC says it will appeal the decision.

Pornhub announced that it has “disabled access to [its] website in Arkansas” in light of a new state law requiring age-verification before viewing pornography.

President Joe Biden has made child safety a top administration priority.

President Joe Biden on Tuesday urged lawmakers to pass controversial “online safety” bills KOSA and COPPA, currently making their way through the Senate.

The leader of the American Principles Project (APP), a well-funded anti-porn conservative lobby that calls itself “the NRA for Families,” claimed last week during a Fox News interview that his group is behind the porn age verification laws passed by seven states, and admitted they were “experiments”…

MindGeek has petitioned the Canadian Radio-Television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) to be exempted from Canadian Content (CanCon) standards in Bill C-11, the Online Streaming Bill, claiming that adult content is not “uniquely Canadian.”

U.K. digital rights advocacy nonprofit Open Rights Group (ORG) released a formal Legal Advice regarding the prior restraint provisions in the proposed Online Safety Bill, in which experts deemed the current version dangerous and potentially unlawful.

The Free Speech Coalition, the advocacy organization for the adult industry, has submitted an official comment to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) asking regulators to address the issue of discriminatory banking practices and their effects on the adult businesses and workers. By hel

Red alert! For the last six months, EFF, our supporters, and dozens of other groups have been sounding the alarm about several #BadInternetBills that have been put forward in Congress. We’ve made it clear that these bills are terrible ideas, but Congress is now considering packaging them together—po…