Age verification system

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub and other adult entertainment sites, for failing to enforce the state’s new age verification laws, first reported by 404 Media on Monday. Dave Bautista Opens Up About His Relationship With Denis Villeneuve“Texas has a right to protect its children from the detrimental effects of pornographic content,” said Attorney General Paxton in a press release. “I look forward to holding any company accountable that violates our age verification laws…

Pornhub notified performers this week that the platform is requiring proof of consent from anyone featured in its videos moving forward, according to emails seen by 404 Media Thursday. The policy update is Pornhub’s latest effort to verify that its performers are not being abused or sexually trafficked.Remake this Sci-Fi Film with Peter Capaldi!“On January 23, 2024, in addition to providing approved Co-Performer IDs, we will also require proof of consent, such as Signed Release Forms, when a new Co-Performer is added onto…

After months of edging, Montana and North Carolina lawmakers have finished off Pornhub. Users in those states lost access to the adult site on Jan. 1 as new laws require people to verify their age to watch porn. That would have meant uploading a picture of your ID before you watch sorority sisters figure out how to pay the pizza delivery boy. To spare us all, Pornhub’s parent company, Aylo, just removed access to its adult sites for those states altogether.Let’s Eat a Chocolate Xbox Controller“As you may know, your…

The Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) is seeking approval from the FTC to implement facial age estimation technology to stop kids skirting parental controls. If the industry’s self-regulating body gets its way, kids and their parents may need to get used to taking selfies to sign up for games. David Byrne on New Tech and AI | Gizmodo InterviewIn a recent application submitted by the ESRB, digital identity firm Yoti, and youth digital media company SuperAwesome, the three organizations jointly asked the FTC for…

Photo: Samuel Corum (AP)Republican lawmakers have yelped about banning TikTok nationally over supposed national security threats for years now but the increasingly prescient policy issue finally gained bipartisan political support this year with the introduction of the RESTRICT Act by Sens. Mark Warner, a Democrat, and John Thune. The proposed legislation would give the Secretary of Commerce the ability to ban digital products or services from China, Iran, Cuba, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela that involved…

Pornhub has officially pulled out of two more states, namely Mississippi and Virginia. As much as the latter state is “for lovers,” PornHub says it’s protesting the states’ recently-enacted age verification laws that create massive business and privacy issues for the porno site.What is One Change Mark Zuckerberg Should Make to His Social Platforms? | Gizmodo InterviewIn a statement posted to Twitter late last week, Pornhub said it is “sorry to let our loyal visitors in these states down but we have opted to comply with…

After Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a law that requires teens and kids to get parental consent before signing up for social media, that law is now in the crosshairs of a tech trade group called NetChoice, which filed a lawsuit against it.How To Remove Followers From TwitterAccording to a press release from NetChoice, the group filed the lawsuit yesterday,while the law was signed by Sanders in April and does not go into effect until September 1, 2023. NetChoice is a self-described nonprofit group of tech…

Pornhub did something fairly unusual this week: instead of encouraging its slack-jawed user base to keep their eyes glued to an endless stream of fake boobs, sex toys, and debauchery, the adult video site instead begged them to get off the couch, quit jerkin’ it, and reach out to their elected officials.Twitter Verification is a Hot MessWhy is one of the world’s biggest smut distributors encouraging its user base to get more civically involved? Tofight profit-curbing regulations, of course. In recent months, a slew of…

Illustration: Jody Serrano / Gizmodo / Getty ImagesPornhub disabled access to its website for people in Utah on Monday to protest the state’s new age verification law, which requires websites with adult content to confirm users are 18 years of age or older.Twitter Verification is a Hot MessUsers in Utah, which declared that porn was a “public health crisis” in 2016, who tried to access Pornhub on Monday were instead greeted with a video message from adult performer Cherie DeVille. The performer went on to explain that…