PHOENIX—Aylo, the parent company of adult tube site Pornhub.com, will block all IP addresses from Arizona in response to an age verification law that was adopted by the state legislature and signed into law by Democratic Gov. Katie Hobbs. The block is scheduled to begin on September 26, according to local news reports.
Arizona will be added to a growing list of states Aylo has blocked due to age verification laws that explicitly target online pornography.
"To be clear, we have publicly supported age verification of users for years, but we believe that any law to this effect must preserve user safety and privacy, and must effectively protect children from accessing content intended for adults," a spokesperson for Aylo said, confirming the block.
This statement is similar to what Aylo has issued in previous responses to age verification laws, forcing the company to opt out of being accessible in various states. Pornhub and Aylo's network of websites are now only accessible via virtual private networks (VPNs), proxies, or in other jurisdictions where such sites aren't blocked.
"Unfortunately, the way many jurisdictions worldwide have chosen to implement age verification is ineffective, haphazard, and dangerous," the spokesperson added. "Any regulations that require hundreds of thousands of adult sites to collect significant amounts of highly sensitive personal information is putting user safety in jeopardy."
Arizona is one of the most notable cases for the adoption of age verification laws. Before this year, Gov. Hobbs vetoed an age verification measure, citing the censorial nature of such a proposal and its potential unconstitutionality. However, Hobbs signed House Bill (HB) 2112 into law in May 2025, after it received bipartisan support.
At the end of June 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled, 6-3, that an age verification targeting pornography in Texas was constitutional after being reviewed at a lower degree of scrutiny than what is typical for freedom of expression cases. By doing so, the conservative majority of the high court opened the door for age verification laws to take effect across the U.S.
