Category: Pornography

Online Age Verification Laws Are a Bet Worth Making

This kind of legislation has broad support among the general public, which recognizes that the state routinely age verifies kids to block them from consuming things that we deem inappropriate for them. But this simple logic is not shared by powerful entrenched interests which seemingly can bear no amount of regulatory protection for kids online. As lobbyists converge on the U.S. Capitol to protect the right of Big Tech to addict and advertise to children—according to one study, there is one social media lobbyist in Washington per every four members of Congress—they are also flooding the states in an effort to sweep away laws designed to give kids more freedom from pornography and social media sites.

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‘Instagram moms’ are facilitating paedophiles — report

These mothers are not so naive as to be blind to the risks they court — how could they be, when creepy comments and direct messages mixing enticements and threats abound? — but they cannot seem to forfeit the attention their daughters receive. The mothers appear to be experiencing a dangerous entanglement of objectification and identity, as though their daughters were mere extensions of themselves. 

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PornHub parent company sued by Texas AG for failing to verify users’ ages

Entertainment and Aylo USA, Incorporated for failing to verify users’ ages before granting access to its pornographic websites.
“Instead of abiding by Texas law requiring purveyors of obscene sexual material to institute age verification systems, the company immediately presents minors who access their websites with pornographic content,” Paxton alleged in a press release announcing the lawsuit.

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