Two conservative Republican lawmakers in both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives introduced legislation last week that would require age verification for app stores at the national level. Sen. Mike Lee of Utah and Rep. John James of Michigan serve as the sponsors of the bill, dubbed the App Store Accountability Act.
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In a first, the Texas state legislature continues to advance a bill that requires age verification for online platforms that generate and host AI-generated porn.
A federal district judge ruled on Thursday to tentatively dismiss claims against the credit card processing giant Visa in ongoing consolidated litigation against the parent company of Pornhub that alleges profits from sex trafficking and child sexual abuse material (CSAM) once hosted on the platform.
UPDATE (2:43 p.m. PT): The Free Speech Coalition issued a statement praising the news that the age verification bill was killed.
North Dakota Gov. Kelly Armstrong, a Republican, signed a bill into law Thursday that requires adult entertainment platforms to verify users’ ages.
Nathan J. Hochman, the Los Angeles district attorney, announced Friday that a jury found Monica Sementilli guilty of murdering her husband, world-famous hairdresser Fabio Sementilli, in 2017. After a 10-week-long trial, she was found guilty of one count of murder with special circumstance allegations to kill for financial gain.
Arcom, France’s digital regulator, announced today that pornography websites operating within the country’s digital space are prohibited from using a person’s credit card information to verify ages in compliance with its national age verification law.
A federal district court for the Northern District of California ruled in favor of Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub.com, in a cybersquatting lawsuit that was filed against a domain registry company called Tonic. By order of the court on March 21, Tonic must transfer over the domain names that infringe on Aylo trademarks.
A federal district court in Atlanta, Ga., ruled last week in favor of Strike 3 Holdings, the owner of adult production house Vixen Media Group, in the latest example of the company’s ongoing litigation campaign against alleged content pirates who download protected materials through platforms like BitTorrent.
Four teenage males were arrested by the Houston Police Department (HPD) in connection to a violent home invasion and attempted armed robbery targeting adult webcam streamer and AVN Award winner Amouranth, local NBC affiliate KPRC reports.
