Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing Pornhub’s parent company, claiming it is violating the state’s age verification law. This is the first lawsuit under controversial age verification legislation that’s swept the U.S. in the last year.
In June, Governor Greg Abbott signed into law HB 1181, which required adult sites to conduct age verification on users, who would be forced to show digital IDs or other official proof of age in order to look at porn in the privacy of their own home, or anywhere on any device at all. The law would also require sites to place a “Texas Health and Human Services Warning” on their homepages in 14-point font or larger.
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