Pornhub desperately needs someone to serve as a bouncer outside the club. The company reportedly sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft recently pleading with the tech giants to help out with age verification by requiring users to link their age to their devices—a move that would lessen the burden of complying with age-gating requirements […]
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 Might Return to Some States After SCOTUS Loss: Report
Porn sites were dealt a decisive blow last month when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Texas law that requires websites with pornographic material to verify all users are 18 or older. Pornhub, the world’s most popular porn platform, has been blocking its material from Texas in protest. But it sounds like […]
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, […]
GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Make All Porn a Federal Crime, Following Project 2025 Playbook
Last year, the rightwing think-tank the Heritage Foundation launched Project 2025, which laid out much of the policy blueprint for the current Trump administration. One of the project’s espoused goals was to permanently criminalize all pornography. Now, a Republican senator with kind words for Trump has introduced a bill that would do just that. Senator […]
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 […]