Buying and selling adult websites is a challenging business. From high-stake deals to multi-million sums, the merger and acquisition space of the adult entertainment industry is an extremely crucial component. Any change to a company’s ownership could directly influence the...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah became the first state in the union to implement a law requiring every new mobile device sold in the state to have content filtration software enabled to prevent any potential exposure of minors under 18 years to age-restricted content, like pornography....

WASHINGTON — Gigi Sohn, a well-regarded consumer advocate and board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), announced that she would withdraw from her nomination for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). After an extremely aggressive campaign that questioned...

WASHINGTON —  In another bid to challenge big tech, Sens. Mark Warner (D-Va.), Mazie Hirono (D-Hi.), Tim Kaine (D-Va.), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) have announced that they reintroduced the Safeguarding Against Fraud, Exploitation, Threats, Extremism...

Adult entertainment is not a normal profession. Between the misinformed assumptions our industry is inherently exploitative to the claims that there is no ethical standard in place, it takes the whole village to communicate to the world what it is we’re all about. For...

WASHINGTON — Oral arguments in Gonzalez v. Google were heard before the U.S. Supreme Court on Feb. 21 in a bid to decide whether the safe harbor provisions of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 would either be retained as is or entirely reinterpreted. Section...

PARIS — Jean-Noël Barrot, France’s minister for digital affairs, announced in an interview with the French-language Le Parisien that the government is poised to introduce a government certification scheme requiring age verification for adults 18 years or older to access porn. “I...

Now and then, we come across producers motivated by a set of core values. This is the case with Irina Vega, the indie porn producer and owner of the popular alternative-pornography company AltPorn4U.com. A performer and creative herself, Vega sat down with YNOT to discuss her...

Adult industry trade association Free Speech Coalition (FSC) has alerted its members to multiple bills introduced by Republicans in state legislatures all over the country. Mike Stabile, director of public affairs for FSC, began a Twitter thread last week describing several bills...

WASHINGTON — Dozens of special interest groups and civil society organizations have filed amicus briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the high court to retain Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. A total of 49 amicus briefs support Google in the case...