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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.

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.