If you’ve been following the Free Speech Coalition’s challenges to age-verification mandates passed by states like Utah and Louisiana, then you know FSC has repeatedly run into the problem of the court holding that because these statutes create a private right of action, state...

NEW ORLEANS, La. – When U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan granted the state’s motion to dismiss the Free Speech Coalition lawsuit challenging §2800.29 – a section of Louisiana law enacted earlier this year that creates liability for “publishers and distributors of material harmful...

LONDON – When the United Kingdon government announced Tuesday that the latest iteration of its “Online Safety Bill” had “passed its final Parliamentary debate and is now ready to become law,” nowhere in the announcement did the word “encryption” or the phrase “end-to-end”...

Last year I wrote a much talked about article, Ethics in Website Brokering. As I mentioned before, ethics and honesty are everything in business. I’ve always strictly followed a professional code of ethics and I run Adult Site Broker the same way. It’s the way my mom raised me....

SALT LAKE CITY – Last month, a district court in Utah dismissed a lawsuit filed by the Free Speech Coalition (FSC) and other plaintiffs challenging the state’s age verification mandate, because none of the state officials named as defendants in the lawsuit “has a particular duty...

AUSTIN, Texas – In a response opposing the Free Speech Coalition’s expedited request for a preliminary injunction in the organization’s lawsuit challenging Texas’ new law requiring age-verification by and the publication of mandatory public health warning labels on adult...

We have a responsibility to our clients. That responsibility is to serve them well. And that’s the reason we don’t take every deal that comes along. I just heard from one site owner and assessed her site. It was an outstanding site, with great design and a great concept....

WASHINGTON – Last year, when U.S. District Court Judge Richard J. Leon dismissed the Woodhull Freedom Foundation’s lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (“FOSTA”), I argued there was a small “bright side” to...

Artificial intelligence apps – and things created by AI apps – are everywhere you look these days, it seems. From being used not-so-successfully in court, to helping people write novels in record time, humans are starting to turn to AI for assistance with everything. As such, I...

Decades after he originally sang them, musical satirist Tom Lehrer’s words still might be the best underlining of the preposterousness of laws prohibiting “obscene” depictions and descriptions: All books can be indecent books, though recent books are bolder, for filth (I’m...