The Supreme Court has upheld a Texas law aimed at blocking children under 18 from seeing online pornography by requiring websites to verify the ages of all visitors. Many states have passed similar ...

In recent weeks, headlines have claimed Americans are being “dangerously misled” about age verification laws for online pornography. But what’s truly misleading is the suggestion that these laws are a ...

Online age checks are on the rise in the U.S. and elsewhere, asking people for IDs or face scans to prove they are over 18 or 21 or even 13. To proponents, they're a tool to keep children away from ...

In July, the United Kingdom began implementing major parts of the Online Safety Act, a law that, in the government’s words, “protects children and adults online” by putting “a range of new duties on ...

Last Thursday morning I woke up to find I no longer had access to my messages on social network Bluesky. "You must complete age assurance in order to access this screen," a pop-up notification told me ...

The move comes days after ITV News reported that teenagers were exposed to multiple examples of extremist content on the ...

Roblox is stepping up its age verification system for users who want to privately message other players and implementing age-based chats so kids, teens and adults will only be able ...

Last week, Pornhub sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft, urging them to adopt device-level age verification. As governments in the United States and the United ...

A bill that would require app stores to verify the age of individuals creating accounts in Alabama will likely not become law this year. The House State Government Committee was set Tuesday to ...

The Supreme Court is asleep at the wheel when it comes to protecting free speech. The latest sign is the decision by the social media app Bluesky to block its service in Mississippi because the ...