First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out Of Control I’m old enough to remember when age verification bills were pitched as a way to ‘save the kids from porn’ and shield them from other vague dangers lurking in the digital world (like…“the …

First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out Of Control | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2025/03/14/f...

#SaveInternetAnonymity #SurveillanceStateUSA

Senator Tries Bringing Anti-Porn Age Verification Law to New York “The internet is a dangerous place for children, rife with sexual material that is harmful to minors," the Republican lawmakers wrote. "The ease of access to this material is downright scary."

Senator Tries Bringing Anti-Porn Age Verification Law to New York

www.404media.co/senator-trie...

#SaveInternetAnonymity

Sixth Circuit Rolls Back Injunction Against Tennessee’s Unconstitutional Age Verification Law Well, that didn’t take long. A short-lived win for civil liberties and the Free Speech Coalition has been undone by the Sixth Circuit Appeals court. The reasoning behind the roll back of the …

Sixth Circuit Rolls Back Injunction Against Tennessee’s Unconstitutional Age Verification Law | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2025/01/22/s...

#SaveInternetAnonymity #1A

Pinkslump linkdump (18 Jan 2025) – Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net/2025/01/18/r...

#FederalDataPrivacyLawNow #USCensorship #Sticktock #SaveInternetAnonymity #BDS #StopAIPAC #PizzaburgerPolitics #PrisonReform #TaxTheRich #NoBillionaires

The Most Important SCOTUS Case You’ve Never Heard Of | Dame Magazine On January 15, 2025, the Supreme Court will hear arguments in a court case called Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton. It hasn’t gotten a lot of press, and if you have heard of it, there’s a good chance y...

The Most Important SCOTUS Case You’ve Never Heard Of - Dame Magazine

www.damemagazine.com/2025/01/15/t...

#SaveInternetAnonymity

SCOTUS Won’t Hear the Real Reason Porn Age-Verification Laws Are Spreading

theintercept.com/2025/01/15/s...

#SaveInternetAnonymity #StopChristoFascism #1A

Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South As of today, three more states join the list of 17 that can't access Pornhub because of age verification laws.

Pornhub Is Now Blocked In Almost All of the U.S. South

www.404media.co/pornhub-is-n...

#SaveInternetAnonymity #StopInternetAgeVerification

41 Percent of Americans Live Under Age Verification Laws Targeting Porn Age verification laws saw an unfathomable renaissance in 2024. It’s quite frightening to see a political class of predominately far-right Christian nationalists implement the anti-porn vision …

41 Percent of Americans Live Under Age Verification Laws Targeting Porn | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/12/30/4...

#SaveInternetAnonymity

Pornhub will block access for Floridians on Jan. 1 Restrictions will take place in protest of the state's new age verification requirements.

Pornhub will block access for Floridians on Jan. 1

floridapolitics.com/archives/712...

#SaveInternetAnonymity

The business of scanning kids faces is booming Online age checks could fuel a profound expansion in government oversight of the internet and create an "authoritarian nightmare," so why are they becoming so popular?

The business of scanning kids faces is booming

taylorlorenz.substack.com/p/the-busine...

#PrivacyMatters #SaveInternetAnonymity

Didn’t We Already Do This? Twenty Years After Supreme Court Rejected Age Verification Law, It Takes Up New Case Just when you thought the internet was safe from the meddling minds of the Supreme Court, the Justices have decided to take another crack at reviewing whether or not a new set of state regulations …

Didn’t We Already Do This? Twenty Years After Supreme Court Rejected Age Verification Law, It Takes Up New Case | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/07/08/d...

#SaveInternetAnonymity #PrivacyMatters #ExpandSCOTUS

Yet Another ID Verification Service Breached, Exposing Private Info Collected On Behalf Of Uber, TikTok & More As more and more governments try to pass more and more laws requiring age verification, some of us keep pointing out that age verification will cause a ton of harm. For all the talk of how it’s nec…

Yet Another ID Verification Service Breached, Exposing Private Info Collected On Behalf Of Uber, TikTok & More | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/06/28/y...

#SaveInternetAnonymity

Porn site operators sue Indiana attorney general over user age verification law One-third of all U.S. states have enacted or considered enacting laws requiring users to verify their age before they can view adult content on the internet.

Porn site operators sue Indiana attorney general over user age verification law | Courthouse News Service

www.courthousenews.com/porn-site-op...

#SaveInternetAnonymity

Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important A year ago, Walled Culture wrote about an extremely important case that was being considered by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), the EU’s top court. The central question was wheth…

Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/06/07/t...

#SaveInternetAnonymity #EndCopyright

US Supreme Court won't halt Texas age verification for online porn The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Tuesday to block a Texas law requiring online age verification in order to access pornographic websites in a case pitting the Republican-led state's effort to keep adult content away from minors against constitutional free speech protections.

US Supreme Court won't halt Texas age verification for online porn | Reuters

www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

#SaveInternetAnonymity

Chaturbate Will Pay Texas $675,000 for Violating New Porn Age Verification Law Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the popular porn webcam site in March.

Chaturbate Will Pay Texas $675,000 for Violating New Porn Age Verification Law

www.404media.co/chaturbate-t...

#SaveInternetAnonymity #BoycottTexss

SCOTUS Needs To Take Up The Texas Age Verification Lawsuit I think we could witness one of the most important First Amendment legal showdowns ever. The U.S. Supreme Court is being asked to rule on the constitutionality of mandatory age verification for por…

SCOTUS Needs To Take Up The Texas Age Verification Lawsuit | Techdirt

www.techdirt.com/2024/04/19/s...

#SaveInternetAnonymity #4MoreJustices