LOS ANGELES—Aylo, the parent company of platforms like Pornhub.com, confirmed to AVN that three more U.S. states will be blocked due to local age verification laws that target porn. Starting today, July 1, users in the states of Georgia, South Dakota and Wyoming will lose access to all of Aylo's sites unless they use a virtual private network (VPN).
Such a block coincides with age verification laws entering force in these three states as their fiscal years begin on July 1. Most age verification laws adopted by the states start either immediately or at the beginning of the new fiscal year alongside other measures passed that year, like an appropriations bill or a change to the criminal code.
The spokesperson for Aylo noted that the states Aylo has blocked include the following: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming. These three new state laws entering force today also come days after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled against Aylo and several adult industry plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Texas that challenged its age verification law.
Conservative members of the high court ruled in a majority, 6-3, that age verification is constitutional. Aylo and its affiliated companies have long maintained that the company supports measures to verify the ages of its users, but in a manner that limits the amount of data used to verify the user's age for website access.
