A US federal judge grants a temporary injunction blocking a Texas law requiring mobile app stores to verify users' ages from taking effect on January 1
Document #65 Ryan Mac / New York Times : Judge Blocks Texas Age-Verification Law for App Stores Anthony Kimery / Biometric Update : Judge blocks Texas app store age verification law as unconstitutiona...
The EU fines X €120M for breaching online content rules, the first fine under the DSA, citing issues like its deceptive blue checkmarks, after a two-year probe
‘Impose Sanctions...’ The Verge : EU fines X $140 million over ‘deceptive’ blue checkmarks Inc : Why Elon Musk's X Was Slapped With a $140 Million Fine Eva Terry / Deseret News : European Union fines ...
4chan and Kiwi Farms sue the UK's Ofcom in a US court over the Online Safety Act, saying they aren't subject to UK law, after Ofcom tried to fine and block them
https://www.404media.co/... Forums: BeauHD / Slashdot : 4chan and Kiwi Farms Sue the UK Over Its Age Verification Law
SCOTUS rejects NetChoice's emergency appeal to block a Mississippi law that requires age verification and parental consent for teens to join social networks
Also: There are other big pending applications. Gabriel Malor / @gabrielmalor : It's absurd. SCOTUS has held that even temporary violations of the First Amendment constitute irreparable harm. — So ...
A UK judge dismisses Wikimedia's Online Safety Act challenge over requiring Wikipedia to verify users and contributors' IDs, but says it can file new challenges
Europe is not allowed to make Internet Laws. — arstechnica.com/tech-policy/ ... Hari Kunzru / @harikunzru : There is a possible future in which the UK government ends up blocking Wikipedia to save f...
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
8.5.2025—Florida Sues Czech-Owned Porn Sites—Gimenez, Miami Mayor—Much More... Ronil Thakkar / KnowTechie : Florida cracks down on porn sites over child protection law Stephany Matat / Tallahassee Dem...
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...
Paris Court of Appeal orders complete blocks of several porn websites, including Xhamster, for their failure to roll out solid age verification systems.
The sites have 15 days to implement effective age controls. — This article is also available in: French
Preliminary findings: the European Commission says X's paid blue checkmark deceives users and breaches the DSA; X could be fined up to 6% of its global revenue
https://ec.europa.eu/... … X: Thierry Breton / @thierrybreton : Back in the day, #BlueChecks used to mean trustworthy sources of information✔️🐦 Now with X, our preliminary view is that: ❌They deceive ...