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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…

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…

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…

Photo: LIONEL BONAVENTURE/AFP (Getty Images)For the past year, one of the most powerful companies in adult entertainment has been weathering a lawsuit that claims it intentionally hosted and profited off of child porn. The suit accuses MindGeek, the parent company of Pornhub, of knowingly monetizing videos involving minors, as well as a variety of other nonconsensual sex videos—including those involving rape and “revenge porn.”The suit also accuses Visa—MindGeek’s payment processor—of knowingly profiting off of the…

PornHub boasts 130 million visitors every day.Image: Ethan Miller (Getty Images)On Monday, one of the world’s biggest purveyors of porn, MindGeek, announced that executives CEO Feras Antoon and COO David Tassillo have resigned from the company following a string of controversies.MindGeek is a Montreal-based company that, to the uninitiated, appears to be a run-of-the-mill web advertising and marketing company that boasts hundreds of millions of daily visitors and billions of ad impressions across its websites. The…