Australia rejects stricter age verification rules for access to porn, shunning global trends
In the US, UK and across Europe rules around age verification to access porn sites are tightening. But the Australian government has just bucked the trend…
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UK ‘Pornography Review’ expected to lead to stricter online porn rules
The UK government has announced a sweeping review of online porn regulation, that could lead to tougher rules for the industry as ministers seek to update…
Pornhub blocked in Virginia and Mississippi over age verification
Pornhub has taken the decision to block access to its site for people in Virginia and Mississippi, after blocking two other states earlier in 2023, due…
‘Irrevocable harm’: US bill would criminalize sharing non-consensual deepfake porn
Creating and sharing deepfake porn without the consent of the people depicted will become illegal in the US, if a bill proposed earlier this month (May…
Utah Pornhub block leaves fans scrambling for VPNs
The porn star at the heart of Pornhub’s content block in Utah has called for minors to be given phones and computers that block all adult…
UK Prime Minister defends controversial Online Safety Bill
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has defended his government’s controversial Online Safety Bill, which has been criticized by free speech campaigners and companies including WhatsApp over…
Sending out an SOS: Bonkers dating makes safety a priority
A new dating and hookup app that allows you to send out an ‘SOS’ signal to designated friends if a date turns dangerous is set to…
Imgur says goodbye to sexually explicit content (unless it’s arty)
US image sharing and hosting site Imgur has announced that it’ll purge porn and other sexually explicit content from the platform, as part of new terms…
Europe’s porn restrictions escalate: xHamster order to remove videos in Netherlands ‘ongoing’
Europe’s porn crackdown has continued apace with news that a Netherlands court has ruled that porn site xHamster must remove all its amateur porn videos from…
‘Shut it all down’: AI backlash gains traction with support from industry leaders
It’s generally accepted that AI is the new frontier field in tech, and that new AI systems such as chatbot GPT-4 represent a fundamental shift in…
Google SafeSearch will blur NSFW image results by default
Porn and other sexually explicit images will be automatically blurred when they are found via Google searches, even for users that do not have SafeSearch enabled,…
You’ll need government approval to access porn in France from September
France is set to become the first country in the world to introduce compulsory government-approved age verification to allow people in the country to access porn…
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Coverage thread Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
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