Texas Sues Pornhub’s Parent Company Over Age Verification Law

Published on February 28, 2024

Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has filed a lawsuit against Pornhub’s parent company and major online porn distributor Aylo Global Entertainment over claims it failed to follow the state’s new age verification law. The lawsuit (pdf) was filed in state court in Austin on Feb. 26 and lists Aylo Global Entertainment [formerly MindGeek] and Aylo USA Incorporated as defendants. The Canadian adult entertainment conglomerate publishes “sexually explicit material online that is accessible and harmful to Texas children and adolescents,” the lawsuit begins. It then cites the “many negative emotional, psychological, and physical health outcomes” that can be associated with exposure to such material among pre-teens....