Florida Is Suing Several Porn Companies Over Age Verification

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has sued aggregate pornography platforms connected allegations that they autumn afoul of property verification laws. The authorities passed HB 3 successful March 2024 and nan rule took effect successful January 2025. HB 3 placed caller requirements connected services to corroborate nan ages of their users if they incorporate "material harmful to minors" and to guarantee cipher younger than 18 accesses their content.

The suit coming targets nan companies down respective porn sites, including XVideos, XNXX, BangBros and Girls Gone Wild, arsenic good arsenic big advertizing web Traffic Factory. "We are taking ineligible action against these online pornographers who are willfully preying connected nan innocence of children for their financial gain," Uthmeier said.

Although today's suit focuses connected pornography providers, galore of nan provisions successful HB 3 besides halfway connected teen usage of societal media. In June, a judge temporarily blocked nan rule aft NetChoice and nan Computer and Communications Industry Association — groups representing respective societal media platforms — sought a preliminary injunction. Uthmeier has appealed that injunction to nan Eleventh Circuit.

Yahoo, nan genitor institution of Engadget, is simply a personnel of NetChoice.