Meta forgot to keep its porn in a passworded folder, and now its kink for data collection is the subject of scrutiny. The social media giant turned metaverse company turned AI power is currently facing a lawsuit brought by adult film companies Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media, alleging that the Big Tech staple illegally […]
Michigan Bill Would Digitally Cockblock Entire State
In recent years, legislation aimed at restricting access to online porn sites has become more and more popular in conservative states, but in Michigan, lawmakers have just introduced a bill that would ban all online pornography, full stop. The legislation, which offers a deeply draconian perspective on human sexuality, was introduced on Sept. 11th, and […]
Pornhub Back Online in France After Court Ruling About Age Verification
Many porn sites, including Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, all went dark earlier this month in France to protest a new age verification law that would have required the websites to collect ID from users. But those sites went back online Friday after a new ruling from a French court suspended enforcement of the law until […]
Pornhub Is Pulling Out of France
Aylo, the company that owns porn sites like Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube, is planning to suspend service in France in protest of a new law that will require porn companies to verify the age of visitors. The deadline for porn sites to implement age verification is June 7 but Pornhub will block users starting Wednesday, […]
North Dakota Joins Growing League of States Requiring Age Verification for Porn
Moral panic laws have popped up across the United States in the 2025 legislative season. Recently, North Dakota joined the growing league of states requiring age verification for porn. But critics warn that North Dakota’s regulations, which won’t go into effect until August 1, are another shining example of First Amendment violations. Last month, North […]
OnlyFans Is Reportedly in Talks to Sell Off Its Porn Empire
OnlyFans, the internet’s kingdom of smut, may be changing hands soon. Reuters reports that the porn platform’s parent company, Fenix International, Ltd., is in talks to sell the business for some $8 billion to a U.S. investor group. The New York Post previously reported that Leonid Radvinsky, the billionaire owner of the site, was looking […]
Woman Sues Porn Sites After Son Finds Her Old Laptop, Uses It to Watch Porn
A woman from Kansas has sued a number of porn websites after her teenage son found her old laptop in a closet and used it to visit the explicit sites. According to the lawsuit, the sites in question failed to institute appropriate guardrails to keep young users away from the adult content. 404 Media originally […]
Canadians Want to Cut off Americans’ PornHub Access
The trade war between the U.S. and Canada is getting nasty and two new suggestions for how to give Canada the edge could make it worse. The first is for Canada to flout U.S. intellectual property law and become a nation that exports jailbreaks. The second is to ban PornHub. Trump’s reciprocal tariffs kick in […]
Utah Passes New Bill Requiring App Stores to Verify User Age and Identity
Utah’s legislature has passed a new bill that would require app stores to verify the age and identity of all users, including adults. The bill now awaits signature by Governor Spencer Cox, who signed a similar bill last year that was blocked by a federal judge over First Amendment concerns. The intention of the law […]
The iPhone is Getting Its First Native Porn App
If you live in the European Union, you can now have a dedicated pornography app on your iPhone for the first time ever, in case that’s a thing that you’ve just been absolutely fiending for. Hot Tub, a porn search engine, is the first native porn app that can be installed on iOS devices through […]