by AVPA | Jan 9, 2024 | Thought Leadership
Last year, we helped to provide expert witness testimony for US federal courts considering whether various state laws requiring age verification, be that for pornography, social media or age-appropriate design, were constitutional. The arguments heard in court, and...
by AVPA | Jan 2, 2024 | Thought Leadership
With so much going on in the world of age verification, it is easy to overlook a topic you might wish to keep an eye on. So we maintain this graphical reminder of what we’re tracking, in the form of our AVPA...
by AVPA | Dec 29, 2023 | Thought Leadership
As we begin the second century in which society has imposed age restrictions to protect children from harm – it was in 1923 that the UK Parliament passed the “Intoxicating Liquor (Sale to Persons under Eighteen) Act” – the AVPA predicts 2024 will be the year we,...
by AVPA | Nov 11, 2023 | Thought Leadership
In a widely syndicated article, entitled “The many ways that California’s online age-verification law is unconstitutional”, Professor Eric Goldman and Dr Adrian Moore demonstrate that they are either unaware of, or choose to ignore, the state of the art in...
by AVPA | Sep 1, 2023 | Thought Leadership
The federal district court in Austin, Texas has granted an injunction preventing Texas Bill 1181 coming into force on September 1 2023. The Bill required age verification for online pornography, and the publication of defined health warnings. This judgement provides...
by AVPA | Aug 31, 2023 | Thought Leadership
In his article “Age Verification For Porn Sites: Why It Won’t Work”, in Forbes, Barry Collins sets out the case the title promises. Here, we respond to a number of his arguments. First, a general point: if we can put a man on the moon, we can prove...