An Italian law requiring porn sites, including Pornhub, YouPorn, and OnlyFans, to verify the ages of their users will go into effect on November 12
The age verification process is required for every visit and will be done through “certified third parties.”
Ofcom: UK traffic to porn sites has fallen by almost a third since introducing new age verification rules in July; Aylo says Pornhub's traffic has fallen by 77%
British government applied tougher checks on adult sites in July to stop children accessing content
Analysis: porn sites that don't comply with the UK's age verification laws have seen their traffic from UK users grow, while sites complying had declines
The age-verification laws rapidly expanding across the United States and United Kingdom are bringing with them some surprising downsides …
Florida sues some of the biggest porn platforms, several owned by companies outside the US, accusing them of not complying with the state's age verification law
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SCOTUS upholds a Texas law that requires porn websites to verify that their visitors are 18 or older, rejecting a First Amendment challenge to the law
[This distinction is illusory. Today's AV technology is similarly prohibitive. No adult wants to provide their face just to watch porn.] … Evan Greer / @evangreer : this is bad in a variety of ways ...
During oral arguments, SCOTUS seemed open to a Texas law requiring age checks to view online porn, but could send the case back to a lower court
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/u... Allie Shenkin / @shenkin : Not that anyone asked for a large experiment on the presumably-mollifying effects of porn on violence by teenagers, but looks like we're abou...
UK's Ofcom imposes robust age checks on porn sites, which could include photo ID matching, facial age estimation technology, and credit card checks
Ofcom sets out new rules that could include photo ID matching and credit card verification — The UK media regulator will make it harder …
An investigation finds several women across the US were deceived, drugged, terrorized, and sexually enslaved by sex traffickers to make money from OnlyFans
www.reuters.com/investigates... X: @reuters : For nearly two years, the boyfriend of a young Wisconsin woman held her captive, forcing her almost every night to record sex acts on camera and posting t...
SCOTUS agrees to consider whether a Texas law requiring porn sites to verify users' ages violates the First Amendment, in its next term, which starts in October
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to consider whether a Texas law that requires pornographic websites to verify the age …
Pornhub blocks access to users in Texas, after a federal appeals court upheld a Texas law last week requiring porn sites to institute age-verification measures
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