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The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA) urged South Dakota lawmakers who are convening a study committee on the topic of age verification to deny any attempts to adopt potentially inequitable age-gating legislation during the 2025 legislative session.

The election process for the 2024 Free Speech Coalition (FSC) Board of Directors election will begin on November 5. Those who would like to participate in the election, either as a voter or a nominee, must be an FSC member as of Friday, October 4.

A controversial age verification law is about to partially enter force in the state of Alabama.

Starting October 1, the majority of House Bil (HB) 164 enters force, establishing the requirement for adult entertainment platforms on the internet to verify the age of users through “reasonable” age-gating measures.

Only hours after the Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents took the unusually extreme step of firing veteran communications professor Joe Gow — stripping him of tenure for creating and appearing in adult content — XBIZ spoke exclusively with him about his case.

California this week enacted a new law that significantly tightens the rules regarding automatic renewal of paid website subscriptions.

The Universities of Wisconsin Board of Regents has fired veteran communications professor Joe Gow, stripping him of tenure for unremorsefully creating and appearing in adult content.

A federal district judge in California has officially dismissed a case lodged against Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, by the Adult Performance Artists Guild (APAG) accusing the Mark Zuckerberg-owned enterprise of engaging in a civil conspiracy with Fenix International Limited, owner of OnlyFans.com.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, and TechFreedom have filed an amicus brief supporting the Free Speech Coalition in the trade group’s case challenging the constitutionality of Texas House Bill (HB) 1181.

Counsel from the office of Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody, a far-right Republican, filed a 35-page-long motion Friday to dismiss a federal lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of a controversial law recently adopted by the state that bans individuals aged 18 to 20 years from working in adult entertainment businesses. 

Former President Donald Trump was dealt a pair of legal blows Thursday in litigation looking to lessen the existing severity of his ongoing hush money trial involving AVN Hall of Famer Stormy Daniels. Trump was found guilty of 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in a conspiracy to silence Daniels from speaking out about their 2006 affair.