Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Pornhub has been playing a game of chicken with a bunch of state legislatures for a while now. Last year, the smut-peddler blocked access to users … Read more
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Pornhub has disabled its site in Texas in response to the state’s online age verification law. The site now displays a message to users in the state that says having to provide an ID when accessing an adult website “is not an effective solution for protecting users online.” “As you may know, your elected officials … Read more
It’s going to be a little harder to find porn in the Lone Star State. Pornhub is no longer available to Texas residents thanks to a lawsuit from the state’s attorney general. Kara Swisher on All the Nonsense in the Tech Industry Horny Texans saw a very unsexy message when visiting the previously mentioned porn … Read more
Texas residents can no longer access Pornhub — without a VPN. As of Thursday, when people in Texas try to access any of the porn sites owned by Aylo, formerly MindGeek, they’ll instead see a long message in opposition to age verification laws. Laws requiring age verification on adult entertainment sites have already gone into … Read more
Not everything is bigger in Texas it seems … ’cause the porn selection just got a heck of a lot smaller — with Pornhub blocking access to would-be users in the Lone Star State. The porn giant’s not allowing users to hop on its site because of a new age verification legislation signed into law … Read more
TL;DR: ExpressVPN is the best service for accessing restricted sites. Unblock Pornhub from anywhere in the world with ExpressVPN. We’re only a few days into the year, but the world of porn has already been thrown into disarray. And it all comes down to access. As Mashable’s Sam Haysom reports, Pornhub has blocked access to … Read more
For the past two years, millions of people searching for child abuse videos on Pornhub’s UK website have been interrupted. Each of the 4.4 million times someone has typed in words or phrases linked to abuse, a warning message has blocked the page, saying that kind of content is illegal. And in half the cases, … Read more
Sean Evans’ “Hot Ones” crown has been handed over to his ex-girlfriend Melissa Stratton … ’cause searches for the porn star have spiked like crazy following their short-lived romance. Pornhub tells TMZ that while Melissa was dumped on Valentine’s Day, her popularity surged online … with those looking for some X-rated entertainment flocking to the … Read more
Photo: Eva Marie Uzcategui/Getty Images (Getty Images) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., infamous anti-vaxxer and 2024 presidential hopeful, says he wasn’t the one who posted a message on the TikTok page of a fitness influencer who was admiring her glutes after a workout. Sure, RFK Jr., we believe you as much as you believe Big Pharma. … Read more
Pornhub notified performers last week that the platform is requiring proof of consent from anyone featured in its videos moving forward, according to emails seen by 404 Media. The policy update is Pornhub’s latest effort to verify that its performers are not being abused or sexually trafficked. Alex Winter on the Most Important Modern Horror … Read more