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Aylo blocks Australians from RedTube and YouPorn while calling age verification ‘harmful and ineffective’
Aylo is restricting access to RedTube, YouPorn and Tube8 for unregistered Australian users, mirroring the approach it took in the UK — and Pornhub is expected…
‘We’ve made mistakes’: Discord delays age verification rollout following backlash
Discord's CTO admits the platform "made mistakes" as the company delays its global age verification rollout from March to the second half of 2026. UK and…
Ofcom promises more fines as Pornhub blocks unverified UK users
Pornhub's parent company Aylo has cut off unverified UK users from its porn sites, while the UK regulator Ofcom warns it has more fines in the…
The AI Act mostly ignores adult content. That’s not entirely good news
The EU's AI Act puts most adult industry AI — chatbots, deepfakes, content moderation — in its lowest risk categories. That means lighter compliance obligations, but…
Apple and Google ignored own policies while nudify apps hit 700 million downloads
A new investigation reveals Apple and Google have been hosting over 100 AI apps capable of creating non-consensual nude deepfakes, despite policies supposedly banning such content….
Safe, legal, and still a risk: How the DSA is policing pleasure
The EU's Digital Services Act doesn't care whether your content is legal — it cares whether it's risky. Here's how the DSA classifies adult platforms, what…
Aylo signs up for European Commission age verification app pilot despite recent site blockades
The Pornhub owner will be among the first participants in the EU's age verification app pilot, despite recently blocking its sites in France and multiple US…
Porn company fined £1 million ($1.34M) by Ofcom for UK age verification breaches
Ofcom is ramping up enforcement of the UK's Online Safety Act porn age verification requirements, hitting AVS Group Ltd with a £1 million fine — more…
OnlyFans introduces compulsory criminal record checks for US creators
The platform is partnering with background screening company Checkr to run checks on new US creators, though OnlyFans hasn't specified which convictions would block someone from…
UK issues first porn age verification fines, totaling just £75,000
The UK has issued its first enforcement actions under new porn age verification rules, but the £75,000 in total fines may not be enough to worry…
Aylo lobbies Apple, Google and Microsoft for device-level porn age verification
The company behind Pornhub has written to the world's biggest tech companies asking them to implement age verification at the device level. Aylo argues that site-based…
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