Political Attacks

Between Louisiana’s new age verification law and the Twitter ban of Pineapple Support, the New Year is off to a rocky start for the adult biz.

Websites containing 33.3% or more of pornographic content are responsible for checking users’ age. Presumably residents could get around that by using a VPN, though.

Texas’ Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton filed an amicus brief yesterday urging the U.S. Supreme Court to radically narrow the scope of Section 230 protection for websites.

YNOT’s Ben Suroeste thinks Sen. Mike Lee’s latest bills don’t go far enough in outlawing potentially enjoyable activities.

The Russian government has granted its media regulator the authority to block websites containing “LGBT propaganda” without a court order, according to a decree published on Monday. “Information propagating non-traditional sexual relations and (or) preferences” now serves as grounds for blacklisting…

Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) this week introduced the Interstate Obscenity Definition Act, a bill that nominally aims to “establish a national definition of obscenity” but which would, in effect, outlaw all online sexual content nationwide.

The war on porn could get worse in 2023 thanks to Sen. J.D. Vance and others who are pushing for a porn ban. Their demands may lack legal grounding, but they pose a serious threat.

ESPLERP is calling for supporters to join them in marking International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers, December 17.

FSC staff this week met with key House and Senate offices in a series of meetings discussing banking discrimination against the adult industry.

The U.S. DOJ weighs in on a major Section 230 case, urging the Supreme Court to rethink the scope of the statute’s safe harbor provisions.