Redazione RHC : 9 August 2025 16:27
In recent weeks, we’ve discussed at length the storm that erupted in the United Kingdom after the law came into force requiring age verification for access to the main adult content portals. Several adult content sites are under fire these days for alleged violations of Florida’s age-verification law.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has sued the parent companies of XVideos, XNXX, Bang Bros, Girls Gone Wild, and TrafficFactory for violating a law that requires pornography sites to verify that visitors are 18 years old “using an anonymous or standard“.
According to Uthmeier, the sites in question “have openly defied HB 3 since it went into effect” on January 1. He says he sent letters to two of the companies in April, asking them to comply or face legal action, but they “have not made any changes.”
As reported by Axios, XVideos.com currently features a banner criticizing “the age verification SCAM.” XVideos is the second most popular porn site in the world after Pornhub. It’s free to access and receives nearly 3.5 billion monthly visits globally. Several million of these, according to Uthmeier, come from Florida alone.
Pornhub’s parent company, Aylo, meanwhile, has blocked its sites in Florida (and a dozen other states) since December in protest of the law.
In fact, most people can bypass the restrictions using a VPN. “We are taking legal action against these online pornographers who deliberately exploit children’s innocence for financial gain,” Uthmeier says.
Florida law also blocks social media use for children under 14 and restricts it for 14- and 15-year-olds. NetChoice and the CCIA, organizations representing social media giants Meta, Snap, and X, sued Uthmeier in October last year, accusing him of First Amendment violations.
In June, a federal judge ruled in favor of the organizations and temporarily blocked the law, saying it was likely unconstitutional. The Florida Attorney General, however, appealed.
However, age-verification laws in general scored a victory in June, when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Texas version.
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