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Pornhub’s parent company Aylo Holdings will pay $1.8 million to the U.S. government to resolve a charge of profiting off of sex trafficking. The company, formerly known as MindGeek, will enter a deferred prosecution agreement, which means that a monitor will be appointed to oversee Aylo and its compliance efforts for three years. Pornhub and other adult content sites owned by Aylo have come under fire for a history of negligence in moderating third-party uploads of adult content. In the worst cases, this can mean…

The European Union says three porn sites are now subject to stricter rules under the Digital Services Act (DSA). It has designated Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos as “very large online platforms” (VLOPs) after determining they each have an average of more than 45 million monthly users in the EU. This means they will face the same rules as Facebook, X, and TikTok. (Is the discourse in comments really worse than parts of X? Yes. Probably.)The three porn sites have four months to comply with additional obligations. That…

The European Union says three porn sites are now subject to stricter rules under the Digital Services Act (DSA). The bloc has designated Pornhub, Stripchat and XVideos as "very large online platforms" (VLOPs) after determining that they each have an average of more than 45 million monthly users in the EU. As such, the three sites are subject to the same stringent rules as the likes of Facebook, Instagram, X and TikTok.The European Commission (the EU's executive arm) says VLOPs have until February 17 to comply with the…

Pornhub has revealed its annual Year In Review for 2023, with both Super Mario and The Legend Of Zelda seeing a substantial boost in interest. For the third year in a row, Fortnite and Overwatch were the two most popular gaming titles on the adult video site. Rounding out the top five were Pokemon, Minecraft and Atomic Heart. Super Mario was the 20th most searched for game, up 19 places compared to 2022, while The Legend Of Zelda rose 26 places to take the 29th spot. According to Pornhub, searches for ‘Zelda’ increased…

As the founder of the International House of Prayer Kansas City, or IHOPKC — not to be confused with the International House of Pancakes – Mike Bickle led a successful campaign against the professional porn industry. His idealogues formed the anti-porn evangelical group Exodus Cry in 2008, and over a decade later, in 2020, Exodus Cry’s then-“Director of Abolition,” Laila Mickelwait, birthed the hashtag #TraffickingHub, accusing the platform of being a sex trafficking hellscape that must be killed (even though Facebook…

Hey, folks, welcome to Week in Review (WiR), TechCrunch’s regular roundup of the week in tech. Been too slammed to follow the news cycle as closely as you’d like? Not to worry. That’s why WiR exists. We’ll get you up to speed in no time. Thanks to the July 4th holiday, the workweek was somewhat disrupted. But plenty still happened. Meta released Threads, its Twitter competitor, which quickly grew to tens of millions of users. Meanwhile, Twitter quietly removed the login requirement for viewing tweets that it’d…

Pornhub is blocking access from users in Mississippi, Virginia and Utah, which have recently passed laws that require age verification to access adult websites. Similar legislation went into effect in Louisiana at the start of the year. To comply, Pornhub required visitors to verify their age with the LA Wallet app, a digital wallet for Louisiana state driver licenses. “Since then, our traffic in Louisiana dropped approximately 80 percent,” Pornhub wrote in a statement. “Those people did not stop looking for porn.…

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…

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…

Online searches by users on Google for phrases questioning their own sexuality and gender identity, including 'Am I gay' and 'Am I lesbian', skyrocketed by 1,300 per cent since 2004, according to a new report published by the market research firm Cultural Currents Institute.The findings of the report collected Google Trends data from January 2004 to this month for questions related to sexual orientation and gender identity across the US.5 terms that the report consideredAmong the five search terms considered -- 'Am I…