Hacker News with Generative AI: Pornography

Websites hosting pornographic content must have age verification for UK users (news.sky.com)
Websites that host pornographic or other harmful content must have "robust" age verification in place for UK users by July at the latest, Ofcom has said.

Pornography, Regulation, UK, Online Safety

5 points by intunderflow 1 day ago | 2 comments

Age verification mandatory for porn sites in the UK starting July (bbc.co.uk)
All websites on which pornographic material can be found, including social media platforms, must introduce "robust" age-checking techniques such as demanding photo ID or running credit card checks for UK users by July.

Age Verification, Censorship, Online Privacy, UK Policy, Pornography

26 points by mysto 2 days ago | 31 comments

Supreme Court wrestles with explosion of online porn (thehill.com)
The Supreme Court weighed whether an explosion in online pornography requires repudiating the court’s precedents concerning sexual content as the justices Wednesday heard arguments in a challenge to Texas’s age-verification law for porn websites.

Supreme Court, Censorship, Online Content, Law, Pornography

6 points by classichasclass 2 days ago | 1 comments

Pornhub pulls out of Florida, VPN demand 'surges 1150%' (theregister.com)
Florida witnessed a massive rise in VPN demand on New Year's Day after Pornhub began prohibiting people from accessing its site from within the Sunshine State, it is claimed.

Florida, VPNs, Censorship, Privacy, Pornography

49 points by jjgreen 12 days ago | 44 comments

The huge stakes for free speech in a new Supreme Court case about porn (vox.com)
Texas asks the justices to abandon longstanding First Amendment protections for sexual speech.

Free Speech, Supreme Court, Pornography, Law, First Amendment

31 points by thunderbong 15 days ago | 8 comments

Pornhub ban now covers more than a third of US states (independent.co.uk)
More than a third of US states have now introduced restrictions for online adult content, blocking access to popular pornographic websites such as Pornhub.

Pornography, Censorship, Law, United States

8 points by gniting 16 days ago | 0 comments

French court orders blanket blocks of porn sites (politico.eu)
PARIS — The Paris Court of Appeal today ordered the complete blocking of several pornographic websites, including Xhamster and Tukif, over their failure to roll out solid age verification systems.

Pornography, France, Law, Censorship, Technology

10 points by belter 93 days ago | 2 comments

South Korea battles surge of deepfake pornography (theguardian.com)

South Korea, Deepfakes, Pornography, Technology, Law Enforcement

14 points by anigbrowl 136 days ago | 13 comments

Pornhub Is Still a Crime Scene, Even After Its Rebrand (newsweek.com)

Pornography, Rebranding, Crime

11 points by blinkedup 162 days ago | 3 comments

Indonesia bans search engine DuckDuckGo on gambling, pornography concerns (reuters.com)

Indonesia, Censorship, Search Engines, Gambling, Pornography

55 points by gsky 166 days ago | 35 comments

How the American war on porn could change the way you use the internet (bbc.com)