Australia’s eSafety commissioner says age assurance is working, and VPNs are next
The eSafety commissioner insists the top five porn sites haven't lost users to shadier rivals, but VPN downloads spiked anyway, and Utah's…
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Pornhub Pride 2026: femboys top the search charts, and women are nearly half the gay porn audience
Pornhub's annual Pride data drop covers more than shifting viewer demographics. With roughly half of US states now blocking the site over…
DOJ seizes CFake.com and SOCFake.com in first site shutdowns under the Take It Down Act
Two longstanding fake-nude sites have been seized by the Justice Department following an arrest in France, as enforcement under last year's deepfake…
‘Crossing the Rubicon’: UK wants device-level age verification for sharing nudes
The government's three-month ultimatum leans on nudity-detection algorithms that have never reliably worked, while Aylo quietly stands to gain if the compliance…
Two men charged under Take It Down Act as US deepfake law finally bites
The Take It Down Act has its first defendants, but the same critics who warned about over-removal are watching to see whether…
Aylo’s Utah lawsuit could have huge implications for VPN porn workarounds
Aylo is suing Utah over a law that would make porn sites responsible for verifying the age of users who mask their…
EU bans AI nudify apps under amended AI Act, with December deadline
Most countries targeting deepfake non-consensual content go after individual images or videos. The EU's AI Act amendment goes after the apps themselves,…
Apple’s iOS age check gives Aylo the device-level win it lobbied for, but Ofcom isn’t convinced
Aylo is framing Apple's iOS 26.4 update as proof that device-level age verification works. Ofcom's response suggests it sees things differently, and…
VPN workarounds for US porn age verification may be running out of road
VPN downloads spike every time a new porn age verification law lands. States like Utah and Ohio are now writing anti-VPN language…
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 —…
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…
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…
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‘Irrevocable harm’: US bill would criminalize sharing non-consensual deepfake porn
11 votesCreating and sharing deepfake porn without the consent of the people depicted will become illegal in the US, if a bill proposed…
Major porn sites lose nearly half their UK traffic after new age verification laws (but smaller sites grow)
6 votesThe UK's new Online Safety Act has dramatically reshaped the digital landscape for adult content, with major porn platforms seeing their British…
Roblox to introduce age estimation for anyone using its chat functions by end of 2025
5 votesRoblox has announced that it will introduce age estimation for anyone who uses the games platform’s communications features by the end of…
US lawmaker wants to ban sex toys from non-sexually orientated stores
5 votesA lawmaker has proposed a bill in Texas that would ban the sale of sex toys in business establishments deemed not to…
OpenAI’s Sora AI video model could allow nudity, the company says
5 votesIt may have been reasonably assumed that OpenAI’s forthcoming AI text-to-video creation model Sora would be a sex and nudity-free zone. ChatGPT,…
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UK issues first porn age verification fines, totaling just £75,000
Aylo lobbies Apple, Google and Microsoft for device-level porn age verification
Pornhub, Chaturbate and OnlyFans on Italy’s new porn age verification list
Pornhub says UK traffic dropped 77% after age verification laws as users flock to non-compliant sites
Man hit with record AUD $343,000 fine for posting deepfake porn in Australia
Satisfyer Pro loses Australian patent case against Lelo in clit-sucker battle
UK watchdog investigates 22 porn sites over age verification failures
Sex robots should be designed to give consent, says law researcher
Roblox to introduce age estimation for anyone using its chat functions by end of 2025
Major porn sites lose nearly half their UK traffic after new age verification laws (but smaller sites grow)
‘Gross mistake’: Sex toy brand PinkPunch apologizes after employee sought partnership with a minor
California bill would force AI companion chatbots to reduce addiction risk, disclose they’re bots, and provide suicide help—or face lawsuits
Clothoff deepfake app expands despite porn crackdown, whistleblower says
Bluesky and Reddit add ID and facial scans to verify age for UK porn access, X stays silent
The UK’s new age verification law for porn starts July 25, 2025: Here’s what it means for users
Australia introducing search engine age verification as part of porn crackdown
Denmark to use copyright law to fight nonconsensual deepfakes
‘Ofcom’s model is robust’: Pornhub launching tougher age verification for UK users
Pornhub-owner Aylo calls for ‘global’ device-level age verification for porn, after unblocking French access
Ofcom targets ‘smaller’ porn sites in UK age check crackdown
Meta sues over AI ‘nudify’ app adverts flooding Instagram
Pornhub blocks France: ‘There will always be a way’ around blocks, Minister admits
Australia seeks record fine in first deepfake porn case as global crackdown intensifies
Pornhub among porn sites investigated by EU authorities over age verification
Sweden criminalizes paying for online sex acts, putting live cam and OnlyFans users at risk of prison
Undress.cc and US porn site investigated by Ofcom over new age verification rules
Legal scholars advocate criminalizing VR ‘rape’
Huge deepfake porn site ‘Mr Deepfakes’ has shut down and ‘will not be relaunching’
‘Legs open’, case closed? Four arrested in Japan for selling AI-generated porn
UK regulator warns ‘hundreds’ of porn sites about looming age verification deadline
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Coverage thread Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
SEXTECHGUIDE has tracked age verification as a live policy battleground since 2016, from the UK's Digital Economy Act delays and eventual collapse…
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Coverage thread Image-based abuse: tracking the law, the tech, and the gap between them
Eight years of coverage tracking image-based sexual abuse from the DeepNude app's brief viral moment through the nudify industry's current expansion, mapping…
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