Political Attacks

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…

A new age-verification law in Virginia has turned the porn industry in the Commonwealth on its head, causing PornHub to end its services in the state.

In Louisiana, a state law requires users to verify their age on pornography sites using a driver’s license or other ID through a third-party government website to verify that the user is at least 18 years old.

The bright spot in the recent decision upholding FOSTA is the court affirmed a very narrow reading of the law.

The Paris Judicial Tribunal on Friday decided to postpone its decision on whether to order internet service providers in the country to block access to five of the most visited adult tube sites in France.