A federal district judge dismissed a case Wednesday that involved two Florida strip clubs, an adult retailer and a 19-year-old performer challenging the state government’s ban on working in an adult entertainment venue for adults under the age of 21.
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U.S. citizen Taylor Kirby Whitemore was arrested on March 25 by local law enforcement for violating Indonesia’s laws about producing and selling adult content while in the country.
Aylo, the parent company of adult tube website Pornhub.com, is set to remove all remaining content from the platform that is unverified by the end of June, legal news wire service MLex.com reports.
The National Center on Sexual Exploitation (NCOSE), a controversial far-right anti-pornography lobbying group, sued the parent companies of several adult platforms in a federal district court in Kansas on behalf of a Jane Doe mother and her child in a set of lawsuits announced Monday.
Ofcom, the United Kingdom’s communications regulator, announced Friday that it is investigating two adult entertainment platforms for non-compliance under the Online Safety Act, which requires pornography sites operating in the country’s digital space to have age verification measures in place.
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.
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.
