Pornhub has kicked off 2024 by blocking the site in Montana and North Carolina due to new age verification rules, following the introduction of blocks in a handful of other states in 2023. Aylo (formerly MindGeek) blocked its flagship porn site after the two states followed Louisiana’s lead by introducing tougher new age verification processes […]
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 the site in the country, or face fines of up to 30,000 Euros ($33,000) per video. The move was the latest squeezing of the online porn industry in Europe, […]
France and Germany’s crackdown on online porn intensified at the beginning of September 2022, with courts in the two countries pushing ahead with measures to implement or maintain porn bans. Lawyers for the porn sites Tukif, Xhamster, XNXX and XVideos argued in a Paris court that the court was not authorised to oversee the sites […]
xHamster has been blocked in Germany by the country’s main internet service providers (ISPs), after the country’s Commission for Youth Media Protection ruled that the site had breached Germany’s Youth Media Protection State Treaty. Porn site xHamster, which is based in Cyprus and operated by Hammy Media Ltd, was targeted due to not having age […]
Pornhub, xHamster and Xvideos are among the porn sites at risk of being blocked in France, after authorities followed Germany in threatening to crack down on the sites due to a lack of stringent age verification rules. The three sites, plus the porn sites XNXX and TuKif, were told that they had until December 28 […]
