{"id":2521841,"date":"2025-12-16T16:27:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/indiana-sues-pornhub-for-allegedly-targeting-minors-with-filth\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T16:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T21:29:15","slug":"indiana-sues-pornhub-for-allegedly-targeting-minors-with-filth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/indiana-sues-pornhub-for-allegedly-targeting-minors-with-filth\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana Sues Pornhub For Allegedly Targeting Minors With Filth"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Findiana-sues-pornhub-for-allegedly-targeting-minors-with-filth%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2521841&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The Indiana Attorney General, Todd Rokita, has filed a lawsuit against Aylo, the parent company of Pornhub, accusing it of violating Indiana&#8217;s 2024 age verification law for pornographic websites and misleading consumers about the content on its sites. The lawsuit alleges that Aylo allowed access to pornographic material containing sexual violence, rape fantasies, sex slavery, and content involving minors, despite claims of zero underage content. From 2020 to 2023, Aylo reportedly permitted millions of videos and photos to be uploaded without verifying the identity or consent of those featured. The suit also accuses Aylo of violating the indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act by misrepresenting its efforts to prevent child pornography and non-consensual material. Although Pornhub claims to have disabled access in Indiana, the lawsuit points out that content remains accessible via VPNs and other tools. After indiana passed the age verification law, Aylo and others sued, citing First amendment concerns, but courts have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/red-states-urge-scotus-to-uphold-idahos-transgender-surgery-ban-cite-daily-wires-bombshell-report\/\" title=\"Red states urge SCOTUS to support Idaho&#039;s transgender surgery ban, citing Daily Wire&#039;s report\">upheld similar laws<\/a>. The lawsuit seeks to compel Aylo to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >implement strict age verification<\/a> and to pay penalties. 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return false;\" title=\"Printer Friendly, PDF &amp; Email\"><span id=\"printfriendly-text2\" class=\"pf-button-text\"><i class=\"mdi mdi-printer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<p>The Indiana attorney general is suing the parent company of Pornhub for allegedly violating Indiana&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/parents-dont-let-the-chinese-communist-party-protect-kids-from-screens-more-than-you-do\/\" title=\"Parents, Don\u2019t Let The Chinese Communist Party Protect Kids From Screens More Than You Do\">age verification laws<\/a> and misleading consumers about the pornography on its websites.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the office of Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita announced that he filed a lawsuit against Aylo &mdash; the parent company of Pornhub &mdash; on Dec. 3, <a href=\"https:\/\/image.subscription.in.gov\/lib\/fe2e11747364047b721071\/m\/1\/302d46ef-3d90-465b-9b4f-e8848abb8505.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">alleging<\/a> that Aylo did not comply with the 2024 law passed by the Indiana General Assembly requiring that pornographic websites verify the age of visitors.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fdrlst__b89e9-paragraph-2 d-flex justify-content-center\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; \" id=\"fdrlst__b89e9-984483392\">\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1463670073398-0\" class=\"mb-30\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;The content made available to children by the defendants &mdash; all of whom are associated with a multinational pornographic conglomerate known as Aylo &mdash; includes sexual violence, choking, rape fantasies, sex slavery and sex with teen girls,&rdquo; a <a href=\"https:\/\/events.in.gov\/event\/protecting-children-from-porn-attorney-general-todd-rokita-files-lawsuit-against-websites-allegedly-violating-age-verification-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">press release<\/a> from Rokita&rsquo;s office announcing the lawsuit reads.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit also accuses Aylo of violating the Indiana Deceptive Consumer Sales Act <a href=\"https:\/\/events.in.gov\/event\/protecting-children-from-porn-attorney-general-todd-rokita-files-lawsuit-against-websites-allegedly-violating-age-verification-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by<\/a> &ldquo;making false and misleading statements regarding the accessibility of the pornographic websites by Indiana residents&rdquo; and misrepresenting its efforts to eliminate child pornography and non-consensual material from its website. <\/p>\n<p>According to the lawsuit, from 2020 to 2023, Aylo &ldquo;allowed the upload of at least eleven million videos and photos without verifying the identities and consent of all the individuals&rdquo; in the pornographic content. All the while, Aylo definitively asserted that there was &ldquo;&lsquo;zero&rsquo; underage content&rdquo; on their sites &mdash; even though there were &ldquo;thousands of reports&rdquo; of child pornography on Pornhub annually.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Formerly known as MindGeek, Aylo owns several of the largest pornography sites, including Pornhub. Notably, in 2019, Pornhub reported 1.36 million hours of new content, which is the equivalent of 169 years of pornography, the suit said.<\/p>\n<p>Pornhub told the <a href=\"https:\/\/image.subscription.in.gov\/lib\/fe2e11747364047b721071\/m\/1\/302d46ef-3d90-465b-9b4f-e8848abb8505.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">public<\/a> that it had &ldquo;completely disable[d] access to our website[s] in Indiana,&rdquo; according to the suit. However, the suit continued, Pornhub &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/21-shocking-things-an-fda-scientist-just-said-about-covid-shots\/\" title=\"21 Shocking Things An FDA Scientist Just Said About Covid Shots\">publicly admitted&#038;rdquo<\/a>; to being aware that their content was still accessible through &ldquo;Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), proxies, and location spoofing software.&rdquo;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We know for a fact, from years of research, that adolescent exposure to pornography carries severe physical and psychological harms,&rdquo; Rokita said in a statement. &ldquo;It makes boys more likely to perpetrate sexual violence and girls more likely to be sexually victimized. Yet, despite such realities, these defendants seem intent on peddling their pornographic perversions to Hoosier kids.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>After Indiana&rsquo;s General Assembly passed the age verification law in 2024, a group of pornography distributors, including Aylo, along with the Free Speech Coalition, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freespeechcoalition.com\/blog\/free-speech-coalition-sues-indiana-to-block-age-verification-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sued<\/a> Indiana over the requirements, which the plaintiffs alleged violated the First Amendment. Although a judge <a href=\"https:\/\/indianacapitalchronicle.com\/briefs\/federal-appeals-court-lets-porn-website-age-verification-mandate-go-into-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">initially blocked<\/a> enforcement of the law in June of that year, a federal court of appeals stayed this decision in August. Earlier this year, the Supreme Court upheld a &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/indianacapitalchronicle.com\/briefs\/federal-appeals-court-lets-porn-website-age-verification-mandate-go-into-effect\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">functionally identical<\/a>&rdquo; 2023 Texas age verification law in <em>Free Speech Coalition v. Paxton<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In his opinion in that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.supremecourt.gov\/opinions\/24pdf\/23-1122_3e04.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruling<\/a>, Justice Clarence Thomas declared, &ldquo;The First Amendment leaves undisturbed States&rsquo; traditional power to prevent minors from accessing speech that is obscene from their perspective.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit filed by Rokita asks that the courts force Aylo to implement reasonable age verification measures and pay civil penalties to the state of Indiana.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Aylo said it is currently not able to &ldquo;comment on ongoing litigation&rdquo; &ldquo;out of respect for the integrity of court proceedings,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wthr.com\/article\/news\/local\/indiana-attorney-general-sues-one-largest-porn-companies-the-world-aylo-pornhub-youporn-brazzers-ip-address-vpn-child-sex-abuse-nonconsent-rokita-todd\/531-ee26260e-6f1b-4e18-98d4-d4950a1e05cd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to NBC affiliate WTHR.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\">\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">      Bradley Haley is a George Washington Fellow at Hillsdale College, and the Founder of New Guard Press.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author mt-30 mt-sm-60 pt-30 bdr-top-bold-black\">\n<div class=\"row g-0 align-items-center\">\n<div class=\"col-12 col-md-6\">\n<div class=\"article-author-profile d-flex align-items-center justify-content-center justify-content-md-start\">\n<div class=\"article-author-details\">\n<div class=\"label-md\">Bradley Haley<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-author-twitter label-sm d-flex align-items-center mt-10\">             <i class=\"mdi mdi-twitter me-5\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/i>             <span class=\"visually-hidden\">Visit on Twitter<\/span>            <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bradleyhaley27\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"text-decoration-none\">@bradleyhaley27<\/a>           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