TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Azya Thornton on Jan 15, 2025

Pornhub blocked website visitors in Tennessee on Tuesday after an appellate court allowed a new state age-verification law to go into effect. A message on the site encouraged users to contact their elected representatives. The Protect Tennessee Minors Act requires websites with content deemed harmful to minors to proactively verify that users are 18 or older. After the ruling, an adult industry group leading the legal challenge against the state advised adult businesses that the state could begin enforcing the law immediately, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reports. The company has said that laws like these are an ineffective, haphazard and dangerous approach to protecting minors, arguing they will force users to more dangerous sites. In related news, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a similar Texas law today. SCOTUSblog looks at those arguments.