Age verification: A Decade of Coverage
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Pornhub and XVideos each lost 47% of UK daily traffic in two weeks after the Online Safety Act's age verification rules took effect July 25, while smaller, less-regulated sites grew.
xAI's Grok Imagine launched with a 'spicy' mode that can generate topless deepfakes of real people including Taylor Swift, raising immediate legal and consent concerns.
Itch.io deindexed all adult games after payment processor pressure, restoring free titles but blocking paid content pending compliance reviews from Stripe and PayPal.
Steam banned adult games violating payment processor rules, removing incest and slave-themed content under pressure from credit card networks rather than its own policy.
Bluesky and Reddit announced age verification tools for UK users under the Online Safety Act's July 2025 deadline, while X has said nothing.
UK age verification for porn takes effect July 25, 2025 under the Online Safety Act, requiring ID, face scans, or bank card checks, with Ofcom empowered to fine platforms up to 10% of global
Australia's eSafety Commissioner has mandated search engine age verification by end of 2025, with fines up to AUD $49.5 million per breach for non-compliance.
Aylo reinstated French access to Pornhub, YouPorn, and RedTube after a Paris court suspended France's age verification decree, using the moment to push its case for device-level age verification implemented globally.
Sex Down South's 11th annual Atlanta conference (September 4-6) will host a sextech ethics panel covering legislation, platform censorship, and venture capital, organized by SexTech n' Chill.
Australia's eSafety Commissioner is seeking a record AUD $450,000 fine against Anthony Rotondo in the country's first deepfake porn prosecution, using Mr Deepfakes as the test case for whether financial penalties can deter non-consensual
Sweden's parliament passed a law effective July 1, 2025 criminalizing remote sex act purchases, putting cam site and OnlyFans users at risk of up to a year in prison.
YouTube is testing blurred thumbnails for videos flagged as sexually themed but within community guidelines, a move that could reshape how borderline content gets surfaced on the platform.