WASHINGTON, D.C. – When the Supreme Court issued its decision in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton late last month, Justice Clarence Thomas framed it as no big deal, essentially. HB 1181, the Texas law at issue in the case, “simply requires adults to verify their age before they...

Back in January, I announced an exciting plan to launch “My 67.4% Not Free Porn Site,” a groundbreaking new quasi-adult platform which will avoid being subject to certain age-verification mandates like the one in Texas that was recently given the blessing of the U.S. Supreme...

LOS ANGELES, Calif. – In a statement published today, the Free Speech Coalition criticized the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision published last Friday in Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton, the FSC’s challenge to Texas’s age-verification mandate, HB 1181. “In a radical departure from...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an opinion authored by Justice Clarence Thomas, the U.S. Supreme Court held today the Texas age-verification law commonly referred to as H.B. 1181 is properly evaluated under the standard of intermediate scrutiny – and survives that review, as it “has only...

CANOGA PARK, Calif. – In a blog post published yesterday, the Free Speech Coalition provided an update and primer on a handful of lawsuits filed in Kansas, alleging violations of the state’s age verification law. “In four lawsuits filed on May 12, 2025, a minor identified as...

In a statement issued this week, several prominent members of the adult entertainment industry and a representative from the Woodhull Freedom Foundation asserted that new states laws being passed around the country “are targeting queer people and crippling a legal industry.”...

Successful and active adult companies are always looking for new tools that provide an edge. How can we get more done with fewer people, maybe even fewer financial resources? Most of us are looking to AI for answers, and ChatGPT has rolled out a new “Internal Knowledge” feature...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – In an overwhelming 409-2 vote (with 22 members not voting), the U.S. House of Representatives on Monday passed the “Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks” (“TAKE IT DOWN”) Act, a bill requiring...

In what the UK regulatory agency described as a “major milestone,” OfCom published yesterday a new policy statement detailing new rules established following consultation with “companies, children’s safety campaigners and other organizations – as well as children and their...

DENVER, Colo. – Colorado SB 201, an age-verification bill that would have required any website with material deemed “harmful to children” to pay for both age-verification of users and audits of third-party age-verification providers, has failed to secure a Senate vote following...